Thor Mining PLC Director Appointment and Option Awards (0963B)
March 31 2017 - 1:01AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 0963B
Thor Mining PLC
31 March 2017
31 March 2017
THOR MINING PLC
Director Appointment and Option Awards
The Directors of Thor Mining PLC ("Thor" or the "Company") (AIM,
ASX: THR) are pleased to announce that the Company has appointed Mr
Alastair Middleton to the Board as a Non-executive Director with
immediate effect.
Mr Mick Billing, Executive Chairman, commented: "We are pleased
to announce the appointment of Alastair as a Non-executive Director
of Thor. Alastair is a director of Metal Tiger PLC and we are
pleased to further strengthen our ties with Metal Tiger.
"Alastair has an outstanding background in both technical and
commercial aspects of the resources industry, and we are delighted
to add his strengths to our team."
Award of director options
As part of the terms of his engagement, and subject to approval
at the next General Meeting of shareholders, Mr Middleton and each
of the existing directors of Thor, will be awarded options over 3
million ordinary shares of 0.01 pence each in the capital of the
Company ("Ordinary Shares"), each with an exercise price of 1.75
pence, expiring 3 years from the date of this announcement.
Background
Alastair Middleton, aged 51, is a Director of Metal Tiger Plc, a
company quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.
Mr Middleton is a mining industry executive with more than 27
years of international experience, in both underground and open pit
operations and brings with him considerable technical and financial
knowledge. He transitioned to investment banking in 2008 and has
since undertaken multiple technical and economic assessments on
mining companies and projects, resulting in a substantial amount of
funding. Alastair is a qualified geologist and has a Master of
Science and Diploma in Mineral Exploration from the Royal School of
Mines, Imperial College.
He worked for four years as a geologist with Goldfields of South
Africa in the early 1990s before joining Datamine International
(UK) where he worked for 14 years, joining as a consultant and
being promoted to General Manager and Principal Mining Consultant.
During his tenure he developed geological models, created mine
designs, optimised mining schedules and worked with a client base
that included several major mining companies as well as junior
mining companies.
In 2008 he joined Standard Bank as a Director and Technical
Advisor where he had overall responsibility of technical approvals
for all mining finance deals and worked on transactions involving
project finance, corporate finance, off-takes, equipment finance,
M&A, financial advisory and business recoveries.
Alastair James Middleton is, or has been, a director or partner
of the following companies or partnerships during the previous five
years:
Current Previous
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Metal Tiger Plc Furhome Limited
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Alastair Middleton does not currently hold any shares in the
issued share capital of the Company.
Metal Tiger plc, a company of which Alastair Middleton is a
director, currently holds an interest in 34,400,000 Thor Ordinary
Shares, representing 9.24 per cent of the issued share capital of
the Company.
Save as set out above there are no other disclosures in respect
of the appointment of Alastair Middleton that fall to be made under
Rule 17 or paragraph (g) of Schedule Two of the AIM Rules for
Companies.
The information contained within this announcement is deemed to
constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse
Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014. Upon the publication of this
announcement, this inside information is now considered to be in
the public domain.
Enquiries:
Mick Billing +61 (8) 7324 1935 Thor Mining PLC Executive
Chairman
Ray Ridge +61 (8) 7324 1935 Thor Mining PLC CFO/Company
Secretary
Colin Aaronson/ +44 (0) 207 383 5100 Grant Thornton UK Nominated
Daniel Bush/ LLP Adviser
Richard Tonthat
Elliot Hance +44 (0) 207382 8300 Beaufort Securities Joint Broker
Limited
Nick Emerson +44 (0) 1483 413 500 SI Capital Joint Broker
/
Andy Thacker
Tim Blythe/ +44 (0) 207 138 3222 Blytheweigh Financial
Camilla PR
Horsfall
Updates on the Company's activities are regularly posted on
Thor's website www.thormining.com, which includes a facility to
register to receive these updates by email, and on the Company's
twitter page @ThorMining.
About Thor Mining PLC
Thor Mining PLC is a resources company quoted on the AIM Market
of the London Stock Exchange and on ASX in Australia.
Thor holds 100% of the advanced Molyhil tungsten project in the
Northern Territory of Australia, for which an updated feasibility
study in 2015(1) suggested attractive returns. Thor also holds 100%
of the Pilot Mountain tungsten project in Nevada USA which has a
JORC 2012 Indicated Resources Estimate(2) on 1 of the 4 known
deposits.
Notes
(1) Refer ASX and AIM announcement of 12 January 2015
(2) Refer ASX and AIM announcement of 10 June 2014
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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