Strategic Minerals PLC Director Dealing (7391E)

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RNS Number : 7391E

Strategic Minerals PLC

02 March 2020

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02 March 2020

Strategic Minerals plc

("Strategic Minerals" or the "Company")

Director Share Purchase

Strategic Minerals plc (AIM: SML; USOTC: SMCDY), a producing mineral company actively developing projects prospective for battery materials, has been informed that, John Peters, Managing Director, acquired today a total of 3,464,286 ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an aggregated price of 0.5348 pence per Ordinary Share.

Following this acquisition, Mr. Peters has a total beneficial interest in 57,000,000 Ordinary Shares, representing 3.88% of the Company's issued share capital.

PDMR Dealing

 
  1.   Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person 
        closely associated 
 a)    Name:                                 Mr. John Peters 
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 2.    Reason for the notification 
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 a)    Position/status:                      Managing Director 
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 b)    Initial notification/Amendment:       Initial notification 
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 3.    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
        auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
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 a)    Name:                                 Strategic Minerals plc 
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 b)    LEI:                                  213800DICA5NPVOJT776 
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 4.    Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated 
        for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; 
        (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
        have been conducted 
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 a)    Description of the financial          Ordinary shares of 0.1p each 
        instrument, type of instrument: 
        Identification code:                  GB00B4W8PD74 
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 b)    Nature of the transaction:            Purchase of shares 
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 c)    Price(s) and volume(s):                   Price(s)       Volume(s) 
                                                0.533 pence      1,000,000 
                                                 0.535 pence       1,000,000 
                                                 0.535 pence      1,000,000 
                                                 0.538 pence       463,286 
                                                 0.543 pence       1,000 
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 d)    Aggregated information:                     Price        Volume 
        Aggregated volume:                      0.5348 pence    3,464,286 
        Price:                                                 ---------- 
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 e)    Date of the transaction:              02 March 2020 
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 f)    Place of the transaction:             London Stock Exchange, AIM 
                                              (XLON) 
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For further information, please contact: 
 
                                            [phone] 
Strategic Minerals plc                       965 
John Peters 
Managing Director 
Website:                                   www.strategicminerals.net 
Email:                                     [e-mail] 
 
Follow Strategic Minerals on: 
Vox Markets:                               https://www.voxmarkets.co.uk/company/SML/ 
Twitter:                                   @SML_Minerals 
LinkedIn:                                  https://www.linkedin.com/company/strategic-minerals-plc 
Facebook:                                  https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=strategic%20minerals%20plc 
 
                                            [phone] 
SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP               0470 
Nominated Adviser and Broker 
Ewan Leggat 
Stephen Wong 
 
 

Notes to Editors

Strategic Minerals plc is an AIM-quoted, operating minerals company actively developing projects prospective for battery materials. It has an operation in the United States of America and Australia along with development projects in the UK and Australia. The Company is focused on utilising its operating cash flows, along with capital raisings, to develop high quality projects aimed at supplying the metals and minerals being sought in the burgeoning electric vehicle/battery market.

In September 2011, Strategic Minerals acquired the distribution rights to the Cobre magnetite tailings dam project in New Mexico, USA, a cash-generating asset, which it brought into production in 2012 and which continues to provide a revenue stream for the Company. This operating revenue stream is utilised to cover company overheads and invest in development projects orientated to supplying the burgeoning electric vehicle/battery market.

In January 2016, the portfolio was expanded with the acquisition of shares in Central Australian Rare Earths Pty Ltd, which holds tenements in Western Australia prospective for cobalt, nickel sulphides and rare earth elements. The Company has since acquired all shares in Central Australian Rare Earths Pty Ltd. In September 2018, the Company entered contracts for the sale of certain CARE tenements identified as gold targets.

In May 2016, the Company entered into an agreement with New Age Exploration Limited and, in February 2017, acquired 50% of the Redmoor Tin/Tungsten project in Cornwall, UK. The bulk of the funds from the Company's investment were utilised to complete a drilling programme that year. The drilling programme resulted in a significant upgrade of the resource. This was followed in 2018 with a successfully completed 12-hole 2018 drilling programme, and which resulted in a resource update, that was announced in February 2019. In March 2019, the Company entered into arrangements to acquire the balance of the Redmoor Tin/Tungsten project. This was completed on 24 July 2019.

In March 2018, the Company completed the acquisition of the Leigh Creek Copper Mine situated in the copper rich belt of South Austra lia and brought the project into production in April 2019.

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