ECR Ecr Minerals Plc

ECR MINERALS plc

("ECR Minerals" or the "Company")

Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights

PDMR Dealing

ECR Minerals plc (LON:ECR), the exploration and development company focused on gold in Australia, is pleased to confirm that the new ordinary shares awarded to Nick Tulloch, managing director, and Mike Whitlow, chief operating officer pursuant to their remuneration arrangements announced on 19 September 2023 have been issued and allotted.  Accordingly, each of Nick Tulloch and Mike Whitlow have received 9,698,275 new ordinary shares, in lieu of £22,500 of their remuneration for the period 15 December 2023 to 14 March 2024, at a price of 0.232p per share.

The total ordinary shares in ECR Minerals currently held by Nick and Mike, as PDMRs of the Company, are as follows:

Additional Issue of Equity

At the same time, the Company has agreed to issue and allot 2,307,692 new ordinary shares in lieu of £6,000 of fees owed by the Company in order to assist the Company in conserving its cash resources. These shares have been issued at a price of 0.26p, which was the volume weighted average price for ECR Mineral's ordinary shares over the 14 trading days prior to the date of the invoice.

Admission and Disclosure and Transparency Rules

Application has been made for 21,704,242 new ordinary shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is expected that Admission will become effective on or around 15 March 2024. The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares. Upon Admission, ECR's issued ordinary share capital will comprise 1,619,086,760 ordinary shares of 0.001p. This number will represent the total voting rights in the Company, and, following admission may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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ABOUT ECR MINERALS PLC

ECR Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company. ECR's wholly owned Australian subsidiary Mercator Gold Australia Pty Ltd ("MGA") has 100% ownership of the Bailieston and Creswick gold projects in central Victoria, Australia, has six licence applications outstanding which includes one licence application lodged in eastern Victoria (Tambo gold project).

ECR also owns 100% of an Australian subsidiary LUX Exploration Pty Ltd ("LUX") which has three approved exploration permits covering 946 km2 over a relatively unexplored area in Lolworth Range, Queensland, Australia. The Company has also submitted a license application at Kondaparinga which is approximately 120km2 in area and located within the Hodgkinson Gold Province, 80km NW of Mareeba, North Queensland.

Following the sale of the Avoca, Moormbool and Timor gold projects in Victoria, Australia to Fosterville South Exploration Ltd (TSX-V: FSX) and the subsequent spin-out of the Avoca and Timor projects to Leviathan Gold Ltd (TSX-V: LVX), MGA has the right to receive up to A$2 million in payments subject to future resource estimation or production from projects sold to Fosterville South Exploration Limited.  MGA also has approximately A$75 million of unutilised tax losses incurred during previous operations.

ECR holds a 90% interest in the Danglay gold project in the Philippines and a royalty on the SLM gold project in La Rioja Province, Argentina which could potentially receive up to US$2.7 million in aggregate across all licences.