Exercise of Warrants and Quarterly Report Update

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8 March 2017

Strategic Minerals plc

("Strategic Minerals" or the "Company" or "SML")

Exercise of Warrants and Update re Quarterly Report

Strategic Minerals PLC (AIM: SML; USOTC; SMCDY), the diversified mineral production and development company, announces that Cornhill Capital Limited has provided a notice exercising its warrants over 8,333,333 ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the Company at a price of £0.006 per share. SML has received £50,000 pursuant to the exercise of these warrants and will notify the market when the new ordinary shares have been issued.

The Company also announces that it will not issue a quarterly update for December 2016 in light of the recent RNS disclosures relating to its three main areas of operations, namely Cobre (see RNS announcements dated 17 January 2017 and 1 February 2017), Redmoor (see RNS announcements dated 12 January 2017, 24 January 2017, 6 February 2017 and 2 March 2017) and Hanns Camp (see RNS announcement dated 28 February 2017). The Board considers no additional relevant information would be disclosed by such an announcement apart from the Company's cash balance at 31 December 2016, which stood at USD1.205 million. The Company expects to provide an update for the quarter ended 31 March 2017 by early May.

Commenting, John Peters, Managing Director of Strategic Minerals said:

"The exercise of the warrants by Cornhill Capital, associated with our June 2015 share issue, concludes our outstanding warrants and leaves only the options held by directors and management outstanding. These options do not begin to vest until the share price reaches £0.015 with the earliest maturing in June 2018."

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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, the UK and Australia. The Company is focused on acquiring and developing cash generative, high quality projects which meet local market demand for commodities and utilising this cash flow to undertake value added exploration. 

In September 2011, Strategic Minerals purchased its first cash generating asset; the Cobre magnetite tailings dam project in New Mexico, USA which it brought into production in 2012 and which continues to provide a revenue stream for the Company. The portfolio was expanded in January 2016 with the acquisition of shares in Central Australian Rare Earths Pty Ltd, which holds tenements in Western Australia and the Northern Territory that are prospective for nickel sulphides, gold and rare earths. In May 2016, an additional exploration asset was acquired when the company entered into an agreement with New Age Exploration Limited to acquire up to 50% of the Redmoor Tin/Tungsten project in Cornwall, UK. This 50% acquisition has now been completed.