Director Purchase of Ordinary Shares

12 July 2012

3Legs Resources plc

Director purchase of ordinary shares

3Legs Resources plc (the "Company") announces that it has received notice of the following purchase of ordinary shares in the Company by a director of the Company.

On 12 July 2012 Peter Clutterbuck, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, purchased 27,000 ordinary shares of 0.025 pence each in the Company at a price of 38 pence per share. The purchased shares will be held in a self-invested personal pension plan of which Peter Clutterbuck has beneficial ownership.

Following this transaction, Peter Clutterbuck now holds a beneficial interest in a total of 113,664 ordinary shares of 0.025 pence each in the Company, representing 0.13% per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.

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