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Cadence Minerals Plc

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

Notice of Initial Substantial Shareholder in Evergreen Lithium Limited

Cadence Minerals (AIM/NEX: KDNC; OTC: KDNCY) has filed its Notice of Initial Substantial Shareholder in Evergreen Lithium Limited ("Evergreen"), a copy of which can be found here. Cadence holds 15,830,138 million shares, equivalent to 8.74% of the issued share capital of Evergreen and is its largest shareholder. Evergreen was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange on 11 April 2023.

Highlights:

Ø Cadence holds 8.74% of Evergreen Lithium and is its largest shareholder.

Ø Evergreen intends to advance three hard rock lithium exploration projects in Australia.

Ø Evergreen has listed with approximately AS$ 10 million cash in hand.

Ø The flagship Byone Lithium Project covers the north-eastern strike extent of the lithium-and tantalum endowed Bynoe Pegmatite field;

o The project is adjacent to Core Lithium's producing lithium mine.

o Soil sampling on the project returned geochemical anomalies indicating lithium mineralisation.

o Based on soil sampling alone, an initial five target zones containing lithium mineralisation have been identified.

Ø The second prospect, Kenny Lithium, is located within the Dundas Mineral Field of Western Australia, close to Mt Dean and Mt Belches-Bald Hill pegmatite fields.'

o Initial field mapping on the project has confirmed the presence of substantial outcropping pegmatites

o 10km zone of pegmatite outcropping has been confirmed in the North-Eastern section of the Kenny Lithium Project

o Evergreen has recently completed a comprehensive auger program, drilling 1,731 holes. Evergreen expects the results to be available shortly after admission.

Background to Cadence's investment in Evergreen Lithium

Cadence Minerals received approximately 15.8 million shares in Evergreen in July 2022 when Cadence sold its 31.5% stake in Lithium Technologies and Lithium Supplies ("LT and LS") to Evergreen as announced on 27 June 2022.  A further AS$ 3.47 million (£1.86 million) of shares in Evergreen are due to Cadence on the achievement of certain performance milestones by Evergreen. The pricing of Evergreen shares associated with this consideration is based on a defined pricing mechanism linked to the VWAP and the date at which the performance milestones are achieved. Further details of these milestones can be found in the Evergreen prospectus available here. Cadence's shares are subject to a 2-year escrow agreement as determined by the listing rules of the ASX.

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Qualified Person

Kiran Morzaria B.Eng. (ACSM), MBA, has reviewed and approved the information contained in this announcement. Kiran holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial Geology) from the Camborne School of Mines and an MBA (Finance) from CASS Business School.

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This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the UK version of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 which is part of UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended ("MAR"). Upon the publication of this announcement via a Regulatory Information Service, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.