RNS Number:0580T
Minco PLC
09 December 2003


Minco announces that, as a result of the acquisition of Orca Gold and the
subsequent placing of 12,548,750 new ordinary Euro0.0125 shares, the interests of
the Directors in the ordinary shares of the Company are as follows:

John Teeling                         2,416,645                   2.69
John Kearney                         1,500,000                   1.67
James Finn                           1,341,645                   1.49
Terence McKillen                     3,145,000                   3.05
Roger Turner                         5,220,938                   5.82
Mathew Dorman                        8,514,316                   9.49
Richard Thornton                     4,954,734                   5.52


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