Strategic Minerals Regulatory News (SML)

9 April 2013

Strategic Minerals Plc

("Strategic Minerals" or the "Company")

Exercise of Warrants, Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights

Strategic Minerals Plc (AIM: SML; USOTC: SMCDY), the magnetite iron ore producer and exploration company, announces that it has received notice of the exercise of warrants ("Warrant Exercise") from Mr Thomas Knifton to subscribe to 3,000,000 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each ("New Ordinary Shares") in the Company at the exercise price of 0.1 pence per ordinary share. The New Ordinary Shares represent all of the warrants granted to Mr Thomas Knifton under the Warrant Instrument of 11 March 2011.

Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the New Ordinary Shares, which rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued ordinary shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM. Dealings are expected to commence on 16 April 2013.

Following the Warrant Exercise, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue will be 553,825,560. This figure may be used by shareholders 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 share capital of the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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