Strategic Minerals Regulatory News (SML)

1 July 2015

Strategic Minerals plc

("Strategic Minerals" or the "Company")

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Strategic Minerals plc (AIM: SML; USOTC: SMCDY), the diversified mineral development and production company, announces that the Company's issued share capital, as at the date of this announcement, consists of 805,825,560 ordinary shares of 0.1p each, with one voting right per share. Strategic Minerals does not hold any ordinary shares in treasury.

Therefore the total number of ordinary shares and voting rights in the Company is 805,825,560. This figure 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 share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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Notes to Editors

Strategic Minerals plc is an AIM-quoted, diversified mineral development and production company, with projects in the United States of America and New Zealand. The Company is focused on acquiring and developing cash-generative, high-quality projects that meet local market demand for commodities.

In September 2011, Strategic Minerals purchased its first cash generating assets, the Cobre magnetite tailings dam project in New Mexico, USA, which it brought into production in 2014 and which continues to provide a revenue stream for the Company. The portfolio was expanded in March 2015 with the acquisition of the Tatu Coal Mine located in North Island, New Zealand. Strategic Minerals is now developing this project with the expectation that it will make its first thermal coal sales by H1 2016.

In addition, the Company also has an exploration iron ore project in Queensland, Australia.