RNS Number:5115O
Avocet Mining PLC
08 August 2003


                 AVOCET MINING PLC ("Avocet" or the "Company")

                    NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING


Avocet announces that it has today posted a notice of Extraordinary General
Meeting to shareholders to be held at 3:30pm or the conclusion of the 2003
Annual General Meeting on 2 September 2003.

Subsequent to the printing and dispatch of the Notice of Annual General Meeting,
included within the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2003,
the Company has become aware of potential opportunities which could enable it to
raise further funding in order to develop its North Lanut project in Indonesia.
Although there can be no certainty that such funding arrangements will come to
fruition, the Directors wish to seek shareholder approval to increase the
section 89 authority to enable the Company to complete a fund raising if
circumstances were appropriate.

Copies of the notice of Extraordinary General Meeting are available from the
Company's registered office.

Avocet is a mining company listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM.  The
Company's principal activities are gold mining and exploration in Malaysia (as
100% owner of the Penjom mine, the country's largest gold producer), Tajikistan
(as 49% owner and operator of the Zeravshan Gold Company, Tajikistan's principal
gold mine), and Indonesia (as 80% owner of the North Lanut gold project in North
Sulawesi where a positive feasibility study has recently been completed).

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For further information please contact:

Avocet Mining PLC                                     4C Communications Ltd
John Catchpole (Chief Executive)                      John Carrick Smith
Jonathan Henry (Finance Director)                     020 7907 4761
020 7907 9000

www.avocet.co.uk


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