Notification of Interest

16 Jan 2006 15:59

Adastra Minerals Inc16 January 2006 Adastra Minerals Inc ("the Company") announces that it was notified on 6 January2006, in accordance with Part VI of the Companies Act 1985 (as amended) (the"Act"), that Prudential plc and certain of its subsidiary companies have anotifiable interest in 11,109,400 common shares of no par value in the Company(the "Shares"). The Shares represent approximately 14.39 per cent. of theCompany's issued share capital. For the purposes of section 210 of the Act, the address for those companiesidentified as the registered holders of the Shares is Laurence Pountney Hill,London EC4R 0HH. The change results from the private placement of 6,000,000 common shares of nopar value in the Company, the completion of which was announced on 23 December2005. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange