ECR Minerals Regulatory News (ECR)

8 August 2025

ECR MINERALS PLC

("ECR Minerals", "ECR" or the "Company")

Directorate Change

Appointment of Mike Parker as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

ECR Minerals plc (LON: ECR), the exploration and development company focused on gold in Australia, is pleased to announce that Mike Parker has been appointed as a director to the board of ECR Minerals (the "Board") with immediate effect as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director. Mike has been a consultant geologist to ECR since 2024.

Mike has extensive experience in exploration and project development, overseeing projects from discovery through construction to production. He had a 22-year tenure at First Quantum Minerals (FQM) where he held progressively senior country manager positions, and was instrumental in two major copper discoveries: the Lonshi and Frontier mines. He was country manager in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for FQM, overseeing up to 3,000 staff with two operating copper mines and a mine construction project. Between 2011 to 2017, he was country manager for FQM in Peru, responsible for the design and implementation of FQM's corporate strategy in Latin America, including Argentina and Chile. He oversaw community relations programs and sustainability processes, ensuring that projects complemented community development in remote areas including preparations for resettlement programs. He was responsible for government relations and communications throughout Latin America.

He is currently a Director of Aftermath Silver Ltd, a pure-silver exploration play in Chile and Peru and listed in Canada, and Technical Director of Solis Minerals Limited, a critical minerals explorer, focused on South America, with a dual listing in Canada and Australia. At Aftermath Silver, his focus is on the Berenguela deposit with battery metal potential and he leads Solis Minerals' copper exploration programmes.

Mike is a fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FAusIMM) and member of the Institute of Mining Engineers of Peru (IIMP) and holds a BSc Mining Geology (Honours), University of Leicester. 

Mike Parker, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company, commented:

"I have been working with ECR since 2024, and I am very pleased to be joining the Board at this pivotal time. The progress that we are making at our Blue Mountain Project gives us increasing confidence in the potential production capabilities there and, as our rig moves up to the Lolworth Project later in the month, we will aim to advance the successful surface work already carried out on that project with a targeted drilling campaign across four locations."

Additional disclosures required under the AIM Rules for Companies

Pursuant to Rule 17 and Schedule Two Paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies, Michael ("Mike") John Parker, aged 61 is, or has during the last five years, been a director or partner of the following companies and partnerships:

Mr. Parker owns 7,042,581 ordinary shares of 0.001 pence each in the Company, which is equivalent to 0.31% of the voting rights in the Company.

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ABOUT ECR MINERALS PLC

ECR Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company. ECR's wholly owned Australian subsidiary ECR Minerals (Australia) Pty Ltd ("ECR Australia") has 100% ownership of the Bailieston and Creswick gold projects in central Victoria, Australia, has six licence applications outstanding which includes one licence application lodged in eastern Victoria (Tambo gold project).

ECR also owns 100% of an Australian subsidiary ECR Minerals (Queensland) Pty Ltd which has three approved exploration permits covering 946 km2 over a relatively unexplored area in Lolworth Range, Queensland, Australia. The Company has also submitted a license application at Kondaparinga which is approximately 120km2 in area and located within the Hodgkinson Gold Province, 80km NW of Mareeba, North Queensland.

Following the sale of the Avoca, Moormbool and Timor gold projects in Victoria, Australia to Fosterville South Exploration Ltd (TSX-V: FSX) and the subsequent spin-out of the Avoca and Timor projects to Leviathan Gold Ltd (TSX-V: LVX), MGA has the right to receive up to A$2 million in payments subject to future resource estimation or production from projects sold to Fosterville South Exploration Limited. 

ECR Australia also has approximately A$75 million of unutilised tax losses incurred during previous operations.