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23 December 2021
Strategic Minerals plc
("Strategic Minerals", "SML" or the "Company")
Director Dealing
Strategic Minerals plc (AIM: SML; USOTC: SMCDY), a producing mineral company actively developing projects prospective for battery materials, announces that it was informed today by John Peters of his purchase of 2,000,000 ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 0.295p per share and 2,800,000 Ordinary Shares at a price of 0.25p per share.
Following these transactions, Mr Peters interest in Ordinary Shares is as follows:
Director | Ordinary Shares Purchased | Resultant Shareholding | % of Issued Share Capital |
John Peters (Managing Director) | 4,800,000 | 74,000,000 | 3.67% |
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| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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| Name
| John Peters
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1. Managing Director
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| Initial notification /Amendment
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Initial Notification | ||||||||||
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| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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| Name
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Strategic Minerals Plc
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| LEI
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213800DICA5NPVOJT776 | ||||||||||
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| 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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| Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | ordinary shares of 0.1p each | ||||||||||
Identification code | ISIN: GB00B4W8PD74 | |||||||||||
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| Nature of the transaction
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Purchase of Ordinary Shares
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| Price(s) and volume(s) | |||||||||||
Price(s) | Volume(s) | |||||||||||
0.295 pence | 2,000,000 | |||||||||||
0.25 pence | 2,800,000 | |||||||||||
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| Aggregated information | |||||||||||
- Aggregated volume |
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- Price | ||||||||||||
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| Date of the transaction
| 23 December 2021 | ||||||||||
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| Place of the transaction
| XLON | ||||||||||
For further information, please contact: | ||||
Strategic Minerals plc | +61 (0) 414 727 965 | |||
John Peters | ||||
Managing Director | ||||
Website: | www.strategicminerals.net | |||
Email: | info@strategicminerals.net | |||
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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 | |||
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SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP | +44 (0) 20 3470 0470 | |||
Nominated Adviser and Broker | ||||
Matthew Johnson | ||||
Ewan Leggat | ||||
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Notes to Editors
Strategic Minerals plc is an AIM-quoted, profitable operating minerals company actively developing projects tailored to materials expected to benefit from strong demand in the future. It has an operation in the United States of America 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 likely to be highly demanded in the future.
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 aimed at supplying the metals and minerals likely to be highly demanded in the future.
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 12-hole drilling programme and the resource update that resulted was announced in February 2019. In March 2019, the Company entered into arrangements to acquire the balance of the Redmoor Tin/Tungsten project which was settled on 24 July 2019 by way of a vendor loan which was fully repaid on 26 June 2020.
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 temporarily into production in April 2019. The project has been granted a conditional approval by the South Australian Government for a Program for Environmental Protection and Rehabilitation (PEPR) in relation to mining of its Paltridge North deposit and processing at the Mountain of Light installation.