Thor Mining PLC Exercise of Warrants (8051I)

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RNS Number : 8051I

Thor Mining PLC

28 November 2018

28 November 2018

THOR MINING PLC

EXERCISE OF WARRANTS

Thor Mining PLC ("Thor" or the "Company") (AIM, ASX: THR) announces that it has today received a notice of exercise of 7,500,000 warrants by Metal Tiger plc over ordinary shares of 0.01 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 1.2 pence per warrant, representing a value of GBP90,000.

Settlement and dealings

Application will be made to the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange ("AIM") for the 7,500,000 Ordinary Shares, pursuant to the warrant exercise, which rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued Ordinary Shares, to be admitted to trading. Dealings on AIM are expected to commence at 8:00am on or around 5 December 2018 ("Admission").

Total Voting Rights

For the purposes of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules ("DTRs"), following Admission, Thor will have 685,696,593 Ordinary Shares in issue with voting rights attached. Thor holds no shares in treasury. This figure of 685,696,593 may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company, under the ASX Listing Rules or the DTRs.

Following Admission, Metal Tiger will be interested in 80,100,000 Thor Shares, representing approximately 11.7 per cent. of Thor's issued share capital as enlarged by the above issue of Ordinary Shares.

The information contained within this announcement is deemed to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014. Upon the publication of this announcement, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

Enquiries:

 
Mick Billing         [phone]  Thor Mining PLC    Executive Chairman 
Ray Ridge            [phone]  Thor Mining PLC    CFO/Company 
                                                            Secretary 
Colin Aaronson/      [phone]    Grant Thornton UK  Nominated Adviser 
 Richard Tonthat/     5100               LLP 
 Ben Roberts 
Nick Emerson         [phone]   SI Capital Ltd     Joint Broker 
                      500 
David Hignell        [phone]     Northland Capital  Joint Broker 
 / Rob Rees /         6625               Partners Limited 
 Isabella Pierre 
Tim Blythe/ Camilla  [phone]    Blytheweigh        Financial PR 
 Horsfall             3222 
 

Updates on the Company's activities are regularly posted on Thor's website www.thormining.com, which includes a facility to register to receive these updates by email, and on the Company's twitter page @ThorMining.

About Thor Mining PLC

Thor Mining PLC (AIM, ASX: THR) is a resources company quoted on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange and on ASX in Australia.

Thor holds 100% of the advanced Molyhil tungsten project in the Northern Territory of Australia, for which an updated feasibility study in August 2018(1) suggested attractive returns.

Thor also holds 100% of the Pilot Mountain tungsten project in Nevada USA which has a JORC 2012 Indicated and Inferred Resources Estimate(2) on 2 of the 4 known deposits. The US Department of the Interior has confirmed that tungsten, the primary resource mineral at Pilot Mountain, has been included in the final list of Critical Minerals 2018.

Thor is also acquiring up to a 60% interest Australian copper development company Environmental Copper Recovery SA Pty Ltd, which in turn holds rights to earn up to a 75% interest in the mineral rights and claims over the resource(3) on the portion of the historic Kapunda copper mine in South Australia recoverable by way of in situ recovery.

Thor has an interest in Hawkstone Mining Limited, an Australian ASX listed company with a 100% Interest in a Lithium project in Arizona, USA.

Finally, Thor also holds a production royalty entitlement from the Spring Hill Gold project of:

-- A$6 per ounce of gold produced from the Spring Hill tenements where the gold produced is sold for up to A$1,500 per ounce; and

-- A$14 per ounce of gold produced from the Spring Hill tenements where the gold produced is sold for amounts over A$1,500 per ounce.

Notes

(1) Refer ASX and AIM announcement of 23 August 2018

(2) Refer AIM announcement of 22 May 2017 and ASX announcement of 23 May 2017

(3) Refer AIM announcement of 10 February 2016 and ASX announcement of 12 February 2018

Refer AIM announcement of 26 February 2016 and ASX announcement of 29 February 2017

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