CMET Capital Metals Plc

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25 March 2024

Capital Metals plc

("Capital Metals" or the "Company")

Grant of Share Options

Capital Metals (AIM: CMET), a mineral sands company approaching mine development stage at the high-grade Eastern Minerals Project in Sri Lanka (the "Project"), announces the grant of share options over 750,000 ordinary shares to a Director as set out below (the "Options").

Following this announcement, and the cancellation of 500,000 historical share options, the Company now has a total of 14,800,000 share options in issue, representing approximately 4.1% of the fully diluted share capital of the Company. In addition, there are 2,568,627 warrants outstanding.

Schedule of Directors Options

*Note 1: One-third of the Options granted to Kwan Wey Teh shall vest immediately, and one-third shall vest on each of the following two anniversaries of the date of grant.

500,000 options which had previously been granted to Kwan Wey Teh have been cancelled with immediate effect.

Related Party Transaction

The issue of the Options to Mr Teh have been treated as related party transactions under AIM Rule 13.

As a recipient of the Options, Mr Teh is not independent and has not taken part in the Board's consideration of the Option grant. Greg Martyr and James Leahy are the independent directors for this purpose. The independent director considers, having consulted with SPARK Advisory Partners Limited, the Company's nominated adviser, that the terms of the Option grant to Mr Teh are fair and reasonable insofar as the Company's shareholders are concerned.

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About Capital Metals

Capital Metals plc is a British company quoted on the AIM segment of the London Stock Exchange and one of only a few foreign investors in Sri Lanka's mining industry. After investing US$11 million in exploration and development activities including detailed environmental assessments between 2017 and 2022, the Company's Sri Lankan subsidiary, Damsila Exports (Pvt) Limited, was issued an initial two licences in August 2022 to mine heavy mineral sands in the Eastern Province, containing industrial minerals including ilmenite, rutile, zircon, and garnet. 

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