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12 February 2010
Announcement to London Stock Exchange
Solomon Gold plc
Results of Annual General Meeting
Solomon Gold plc (AIM: SOGL) confirms that all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed at the Company's Annual General Meeting, held on 12 February 2010 at 4.00pm in Brisbane, Australia.
A breakdown of proxy votes is set out below:
| Votes for (1) | % (2) | Votes against | % (2) | Abstain (3) | ||
| Ordinary Business | ||||||
| 1. To receive the Company's financial statements and the report of the Directors and auditors for the year ended 30 June 2009. | 82,964,534 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | |
| 2. To re-elect Brian Moller as a Director of the Company with the title "Non-Executive Director". | 82,964,534 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | |
| 3. To re-elect Robert Weinberg as a Director of the Company with the title "Non-Executive Director". | 82,964,534 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | |
| 4. To confirm the appointment of Mr John Bovard as a Director of the Company, with the title "Non-executive Director", in accordance with the Articles. | 82,964,534 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | |
| 5. To re-appoint PKF (UK) LLP as auditors of the Company. | 82,964,534 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | |
| 6. That the Company may communicate with its shareholders via electronic medium, including emails and the Company's website. | 82,964,534 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | |
| 7. That the Directors be generally and unconditionally authorised for the purposes of section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 ("Act") to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act) up to an aggregate amount of £2,000,000. | 82,962,489 | 99.99% | 2,045 | 0.01% | 0 | |
| Votes for (1) | % (2) | Votes against | % (2) | Abstain (3) | ||
| Special Business | ||||||
| 8 | That, subject to the passing of resolution 7, the Directors be empowered pursuant to section 570 of the Act to allot equity securities as if section 561(1) of the Act did not apply. | 82,944,018 | 99.98% | 20,516 | 0.02% | 0 |
Notes:
(1) Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.
(2) As a percentage of the aggregate of votes "for" plus votes "against".
(3) An abstention is not counted towards the votes cast "for" or "against" a resolution.
Terms used in this announcement shall have the same meaning as defined in the Notice of Meeting circulated on 11 January 2010.
Contacts:
Mr Karl Schlobohm Mr Stephen Weir Mr Ewan Leggat
Company Secretary RFC Corporate Finance Fairfax I.S. PLC
Solomon Gold Plc Nominated Advisor Broker
Tel: +61 7 3303 0660 Tel +61 2 9250 0048 Tel +44 (0) 20 7598 5368
kschlobohm@solomongold.com Stephen.Weir@rfc.com.au eleggat@fairfaxis.com