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Alba Mineral Resources PLC
28 June 2019
Alba Mineral Resources plc
("Alba" or the "Company")
Brockham Update - Alba Comment
Alba Mineral Resources plc (AIM: ALBA), the diversified mineral
exploration and development company, announces the following
statement from Alba's Chairman, in the light of the earlier
announcement today made by Angus Energy Plc, the operator of the
Brockham Oil Field under Production Licence ("PL") 235 ("Angus" or
the "Operator"), as also reported by Alba earlier today.
George Frangeskides, Alba's Executive Chairman, commented:
"We have now had an opportunity to digest the update on Brockham
released earlier today by the Operator, Angus Energy, which we were
obliged to release without delay therefore being unable to provide
any accompanying commentary."
"We await receipt of the analysis Angus have completed in
respect of the further works they have carried out on the BR-X4Z
well and which they say makes it extremely unlikely that
conventional commercial flow can be established from the Kimmeridge
layer at Brockham. Upon receipt of that analysis, our technical
team will make their own assessment of the situation."
"While this news from Angus is, on the face of it,
disappointing, it is important that we put it in its proper context
for Alba shareholders. Our 5% stake in the Brockham licence is only
a very small part of Alba's asset and investment portfolio. Indeed,
our interest in Brockham is shown in our last published accounts
(to 30 November 2018), at a value of GBP346,904, which represents
just 4.1% of our net assets of GBP8,466,188."
"We continue to advance our mining assets apace, as witnessed
most recently by the JORC-compliant resource released last month
for our Thule Black Sands heavy mineral sands project in Greenland,
and our discovery of multiple gold anomalies across the length of
the Dolgellau Gold Belt in Wales, which forms part of our Clogau
Gold Project. With the price of gold this week hitting a six-year
high, and Welsh gold fetching a premium on those spot rates, we are
very well placed at Alba to benefit from that increasingly positive
sentiment for gold."
"And on the oil and gas front, while the oil at Brockham appears
to be reluctant to flow, meanwhile at Horse Hill, which is just a
few miles down the road and in which oil field Alba has a much
greater stake, the oil continues to flow steadily, and has done so
ever since the flow-testing programme commenced some 12 months ago.
That is testament, as ever, to the risk-reward nature of the
exploration business, but also testament, in my view, to Alba's
strategy of accumulating a diversified portfolio of assets and
investments such that we are far from reliant upon the success of
one single project."
"We look forward to reporting further positive updates on our
assets and investments in the weeks and months ahead."
For further information, please contact:
Alba Mineral Resources plc
George Frangeskides, Executive Chairman +44 20 3907 4297
Cairn Financial Advisers LLP (Nomad)
James Caithie / Liam Murray +44 20 7213 0880
First Equity Limited (Broker)
Jason Robertson +44 20 7374 2212
SVS Securities Plc (Joint Broker)
Eliot Hance +44 20 3700 0093
Yellow Jersey PR (Financial PR/IR)
Tim Thompson / Harriet Jackson / Henry Wilkinson +44 77 1071 8649
alba@yellowjerseypr.com
Alba's Project & Investment Portfolio
Mining
Amitsoq (Graphite, Greenland): Alba owns a 90 per cent interest
in the Amitsoq Graphite Project in Southern Greenland and has an
option over the remaining 10 per cent.
Clogau (Gold, Wales): Alba owns a 90 per cent interest in Gold
Mines of Wales Limited ("GMOW"), the ultimate owner of the Clogau
Gold project situated in the Dolgellau Gold Belt in Wales.
Inglefield Land (Copper, Cobalt, Gold): Alba owns 100 per cent
of mineral exploration licence ("MEL") 2017/40 and 2018/25 in
north-west Greenland.
Limerick (Base Metals, Ireland): Alba owns 100 per cent of the
Limerick base metal project in the Republic of Ireland.
Melville Bay (Iron Ore, Greenland): Alba is entitled to a 51 per
cent interest in MEL 2017/41 in Melville Bay, north-west Greenland.
The licence area benefits from an existing inferred JORC resource
of 67 Mt @ 31.4% Fe.
Thule Black Sands (Ilmenite, Greenland): Alba owns 100 per cent
of MEL 2017/29 in the Thule region, north-west Greenland.
Oil & Gas
Brockham (Oil & Gas, UK): Alba has a direct 5 per cent
interest in Production Licence 235, which comprises the previously
producing onshore Brockham Oil Field.
Horse Hill (Oil & Gas, UK): Alba holds an 11.765 per cent
effective interest in the Horse Hill oil and gas project (licences
PEDL 137 and PEDL 246 covering a total area of 142.9 km(2)) in the
UK Weald Basin.
Web: www.albamineralresources.com
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