Directors' Dealings

12 Jan 2007 12:28

Griffin Mining Ld12 January 2007 GRIFFIN MINING LIMITED 60 St James's Street, London SW1A 1LE, United Kingdom Telephone: + 44 (0)20 7629 7772 Facsimile: + 44 (0)20 7629 7773 E mail: griffin@griffinmining.com 12th JANUARY 2007 EXERCISE OF OPTIONS DIRECTORS' DEALING Griffin Mining Limited ("Griffin" or the "Company") announces that on 11 January2007 it has been notified of the exercise of options granted to certaindirectors and management in March 2004 over 9,266,667 new ordinary shares in theCompany at an exercise price of 30p per share (the "Options") to raise£2,780,000 for the Company. The Company has been further notified that on 11 January 2007 9,000,000 ordinaryshares issued following the exercise of the Options have been placed with amajor institutional investor at a price of £1.11 per share. The Options havebeen exercised by, and the new Ordinary shares issued have been transferred by,the following: Number of Options exercised Number of shares retainedKimble International Inc 6,000,000 -Roger Goodwin (Director) 1,700,000 266,667Dal Brynelsen (Director) 600,000 -William Mulligan (Director) 600,000 -Other management 366,667 -Total 9,266,667 266,667 The Company has been notified that Kimble International Inc acquired the optionsover 6,000,000 new ordinary shares in the Company on the 8th January 2007 fromFrick Pty Ltd (a company associated with the Chairman of Griffin, Mr MladenNinkov). Application has today been made for the new ordinary shares issued on theexercise of the aforementioned options to be admitted to trading on AIM which isexpected to occur by the 18th January 2007. Following the issue of these newordinary shares there will be 193,327,731 Griffin ordinary shares in issue. Further information Mladen Ninkov - Chairman Telephone: +44(0)20 7629 7772Roger Goodwin - Finance DirectorGriffin Mining Limited Adrian Hadden Telephone: +44(0)20 7523 8350Collins Stewart Europe Limited Hugo de Salis Telephone: +44(0) 20 7242 4477St Brides Media & Finance Ltd Griffin Mining Limited's shares are quoted on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange (symbol GFM). The Company's news releases are available on the Company's web site:www.griffinmining.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange