Director Shareholding and Issue of Equity

Oxus Gold plc

("Oxus Gold" or the "Company")

Issue of Equity, Director's Shareholding

Issue of Equity and Director's Shareholding

Oxus Gold announces that on 14 December 2012 it issued 3,750,000 new ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company, following an exercise of options by Richard Shead, Chairman. The options were exercised at a price of 1.34p per share.

The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with existing ordinary shares in the Company and application has been made for these new ordinary shares to be admitted to trading on AIM, which is expected to occur on or around 20 December 2012.

Following this acquisition of shares Mr Shead is now interested in a total of 9,694,519 ordinary shares in the Company, which represents approximately 2.19% of the issued share capital of the Company. 

Total Voting Rights

As a consequence of the exercise of share options as detailed above, the Company's issued capital now comprises 441,888,995 ordinary shares of 1p each. There are no ordinary shares held in Treasury. Therefore the total number of voting rights in Oxus Gold plc is now 441,888,995.

The above figure of 441,888,995 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 in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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