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27 March 2023
Hamak Gold Limited
("Hamak Gold" or the "Company")
Operational Update
Issuance of Director Shares
Hamak Gold Limited (LSE: HAMA) is pleased to provide an update on the geophysical survey across its high-grade gold discovery at the Company's 100% held Nimba Licence in Liberia.
Highlights
· Induced Polarisation ("IP") geophysical survey underway by consulting group GeoFocus
· 4,240m of line survey completed at orientation block over Ziatoyah gold discovery where initial drilling returned a near-surface intersection of 20m @7g/t Au
· Interpretation of initial results is promising at mapping the subsurface sulphide mineralization associated with gold mineralization discovered at Ziatoyah
· Survey to be expanded for a further 6,400m of line survey across the northwestern, strong gold in soil anomaly
· Objective of the survey is to define the margins of sub-surface sulphide mineralized units and to define and identify future drill targets
Karl Smithson, Executive Director of Hamak Gold commented:
"The Induced Polarization ("IP") orientation geophysical survey is progressing well over the area which hosts the Ziatoyah high-grade gold discovery. Given the excellent quality of the data yielded so far, we are confident that we will be able to define mineralized zones and structures to identify drill targets along the strike of the high-grade gold intersection at Ziatoyah.
"We will expand the survey to the north of Ziatoyah (Follow Up Survey) to include the strong gold in soil anomaly and expect the geophysical surveys and interpretation to be complete in April 2023."
Figure 1: Orientation and Follow Up IP Survey Blocks Across Ziatoyah Discovery Site and Gold in Soil Anomalies
Issue of Fee Shares and Performance Shares
As outlined in the Company's Prospectus, to conserve funds, the Directors of the Company agreed to accept shares in lieu of fees for a period of 18 months following the date of Admission to the London Stock Exchange ("LSE"), to be received quarterly in arrears ("Fee Shares"). For the period of 1 December 2022 to 28 February 2023, a total of 448,805 Fee Shares will be issued to the Directors of the Company as follows:
| Fee Shares issued to directors | | Number |
| Amara Kamara | | 145,000 |
| Nicholas Karl Smithson | | 125,000 |
| Samuel Julius Baiden | | 50,000 |
| Kenneth Niall Young | | 50,000 |
| Martin Lampshire | | 45,472 |
| Walter McCarthy (resigned 30 January 2023) | | 33,333 |
| Total | | 448,805 |
On the 7 July 2022 it was announced that the Company had granted up to 2,129,847 Performance Rights in accordance with its Unapproved Share Performance Rights Plan to the Directors and to certain senior management.
Each Performance Right entitles the holder to acquire one ordinary share. The Performance Rights vest in accordance with the following conditions as set out in the Company's Prospectus:
· 50 per cent. (50%) of the shares shall vest on the Company's first drill intersection showing significant gold mineralisation (as determined by the Senior Technical Consultant to the Board); and
· the remaining 50 per cent. (50%) of the shares shall vest on the first date on which the price of the Shares is double that of the price at which Shares are issued in the placing of Shares with certain institutional and retail investors at time of the Listing.
After taking independent expert advice, the Board has concluded that the first milestone has been achieved through the discovery and drilling intersection of significant gold mineralisation at Ziatoyah which returned a near-surface intersection of 20m @7g/t Au, including 5m @22g/t Au. Following exercise, a total of 953,107 Performance Shares are being issued to Directors (excluding the executive Chairman), senior management and staff as follows:
| Performance Shares exercised: | |
| Directors | Number |
| Karl Smithson | 255,582 |
| Julius Baiden | 111,817 |
| Niall Young | 111,817 |
| Martin Lampshire | 111,817 |
| Sub total | 591,033 |
| Others | 362,074 |
| Total | 953,107 |
Following issuance of the Fee and Performance Shares, the Directors' share interests will be as follows:
| Directors | No of shares | % |
| Amara Kamara | 24,744,833 | 54.1% |
| Nicholas Karl Smithson * | 4,151,539 | 9.1% |
| Samuel Julius Baiden | 561,817 | 1.2% |
| Kenneth Niall Young | 411,817 | 0.9% |
| Martin Lampshire | 1,286,704 | 2.8% |
| Sub-Total Directors | 31,156,710 | 68.1% |
| Other Shareholders | 14,575,868 | 31.9% |
| Total Shares in Issue | 45,732,578 | 100.0% |
* including spouse holding 753,378 ordinary shares
Application will be made for the approval of the LSE to issue the Fee and Performance Shares. After issuance of these shares the issued share capital of the Company will be 45,732,578 ordinary shares. The figure of 45,732,578 ordinary shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
For further information you are invited to view the Company's website at www.hamakgold.com or please contact:
| Hamak Gold Limited Amara Kamara Karl Smithson |
+231 (0) 77 005 0005 +44 (0) 77 837 07971 |
| Peterhouse Capital Limited (Broker) Lucy Williams Guy Miller Yellow Jersey PR Sarah Hollins Annabelle Wills | +44 (0) 20 7469 0930
+44 (0) 20 3004 9512
|
About Hamak Gold Limited
Hamak Gold Limited (LSE: HAMA) is a UK listed company focussed on gold exploration of a portfolio of licences in highly prospective areas of Liberia, where significant drilling results have identified a new high-grade gold discovery with the discovery hole returning 20m @ 7g/t Au near surface.
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| 1. Amara Kamara 2. Nicholas Karl Smithson 3. Samuel Julius Baiden 4. Kenneth Niall Young 5. Martin Lampshire | ||||
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| 1. Chairman 2. Executive Director 3. Non-Executive Director 4. Non-Executive Director 5. Non-Executive Director
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| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
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| Name | Hamak Gold Limited | ||||
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| LEI | 213800NL4ICLKYSYU749 | ||||
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Identification code
| Ordinary Shares of no par value each
ISIN: VGG4256S1048
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| Issue of Fee shares and Performance Shares (as applicable) | ||||
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Price | 1,006,505 | ||||
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| Date of the transaction
| 28.3.23 | ||||
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| Outside a trading venue | ||||
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