Kodal Minerals Plc / Index: AIM / Epic: KOD / Sector: Mining
20 March 2023
Kodal Minerals plc
("Kodal Minerals", "Kodal" or the "Company")
Exercise of Options, Warrants and Performance Share Rights to raise approximately £342,375
Total Voting Rights
Kodal Minerals, the mineral exploration and development company focused on lithium and gold assets in West Africa, announces that it has received notices of exercise for options ("Options"), warrants ("Warrants") and Performance Share Rights from certain directors, senior management and consultants of the Company to subscribe for a total of 106,250,000 new ordinary shares of 0.03125 pence each in the Company ("New Ordinary Shares") (together, the "exercise(s)"). Total subscription proceeds for the Company from these exercises is approximately £342,375.
Following the exercises, the directors will hold the following shareholdings in the Company as a result of exercising Options:
| Name | No. of New Ordinary Shares issued on exercise | Subscription amount (£) | Total No. of Ordinary Shares held following exercise | Percentage of the enlarged share capital |
| Bernard Aylward | 25,000,000 | £ 95,000 | 246,007,656 | 1.45% |
| Steven Zaninovich | 30,000,000 | £ 114,000 | 37,142,857 | 0.22% |
| Robert Wooldridge | 16,250,000 | £ 53,750 | 169,973,858 | 1.00% |
| Charles Joseland | 10,000,000 | £ 19,500 | 16,250,000 | 0.10% |
| Qingtao Zeng | 0 | £ 0 | 6,250,000 | 0.04% |
Details of the Options exercises in which directors are interested in are set out in the table at the end of this announcement, which has been provided in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation.
Exercise of Performance Share Rights
On 27 August 2021, the Company announced, amongst other matters, the award of Performance Share Rights to Bernard Aylward (CEO) and Mohamed Niare (Country Manager, Mali), the exercise of which is subject to certain vesting conditions being satisfied and upon payment of the nominal value for the New Ordinary Shares.
The Company has received notice from Mohamed Niare to exercise his Performance Share Rights over 10 million New Ordinary Shares, resulting in the issue to him of 10 million New Ordinary Shares at a subscription price of 0.03125 pence per share. This follows the satisfaction of the vesting condition for the successful grant of the mining licence pertaining to the Bougouni Lithium Project in Mali ("Bougouni").
Details of this Performance Share Rights exercise are set out in the table at the end of this announcement, which has been provided in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation.
Application for admission to trading and total voting rights
Application has been made for the 106,250,000 New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is expected that Admission will occur on or around 23 March 2023.
Upon Admission, the issued share capital of the Company will consist of 17,009,980,956 ordinary shares of 0.01325p each. The Company holds no shares in treasury. The total number of voting rights in the Company from Admission will therefore be 17,009,980,956. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they determine if they are required to notify their interest in or a change to their interest in the Company under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules of the UK Financial Conduct Authority.
For further information, please visit www.kodalminerals.com or contact the following:
| Kodal Minerals plc Bernard Aylward, CEO |
Tel: +61 418 943 345
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| Allenby Capital Limited, Nominated Adviser Jeremy Porter/Vivek Bhardwaj/Nick Harriss
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Tel: 020 3328 5656 |
| SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP, Financial Adviser & Joint Broker John Mackay/Adam Cowl
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Tel: 020 3470 0470 |
| Canaccord Genuity UK Limited, Joint Broker James Asensio/Gordon Hamilton
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Tel: 0207 523 4680 |
| St Brides Partners Ltd, Financial PR Susie Geliher/Ana Ribeiro
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Tel: 020 7236 1177 |
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | ||||||||||||||||
| a) | Name | PDMRs:
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| 2 | Reason for the notification | ||||||||||||||||
| a) | Position/status | See 1 a) above | |||||||||||||||
| b)
| Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | |||||||||||||||
| 3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | ||||||||||||||||
| a) | Name | Kodal Minerals plc | |||||||||||||||
| b) | LEI | 213800VKFS7TS32EGI81 | |||||||||||||||
| 4
| Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted | ||||||||||||||||
| a)
| Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code | ordinary shares of 0.03125p
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| b) | Nature of the transaction | Exercise of Share Options | |||||||||||||||
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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| d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price |
81,250,000 Ordinary Shares
£282,250.00
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| e) | Date of transaction | 19 March 2023 | |||||||||||||||
| f) | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||||||||||
| a) | Name | Mohamed Niare
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| 2 | Reason for the notification | |||||||||||||
| a) | Position/status | Country Manager, Mali (PDMR) | ||||||||||||
| b)
| Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||||||||||
| 3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||||||||||
| a) | Name | Kodal Minerals plc | ||||||||||||
| b) | LEI | 213800VKFS7TS32EGI81 | ||||||||||||
| 4
| Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted | |||||||||||||
| a)
| Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code | ordinary shares of 0.03125p
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| b) | Nature of the transaction | Exercise of Performance Share Rights Exercise of Options | ||||||||||||
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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| d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price |
15,000,000 Ordinary Shares £22,125.00 | ||||||||||||
| e) | Date of transaction | 19 March 2023 | ||||||||||||
| f) | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||||||||||
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