Directorate Change

Alexander Mining plc

("Alexander" or the "Company")

Upgrading Engineering Capability with the Appointment of a New Director

21 February 2013

Alexander Mining plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Alan Clegg to the Board of the Company as a non-executive director, with effect from 21st February 2013.

Matt Sutcliffe, Executive Chairman, said: "the Board is delighted that Alan has agreed to become a non-executive director. Alan has outstanding global mining industry experience and extensive worldwide involvement with feasibility studies and mine development. As the Company gears up the commercialisation of its breakthrough AmmLeach®process technology with Metalvalue Limited and others, he will be a major asset for the Company. Moreover, as a resident of Turkey, he is especially well connected in a country with significant and growing potential for Alexander's proprietary leaching technologies."

Alan Clegg, non-executive Director

Alan Mitchell Clegg, (54), is a mining engineer with British and South African citizenship and is a resident of Turkey. He has over 35 years' experience gained from working in mining and minerals projects in more than 160 countries. This has been as team leader or a member of teams that have completed feasibility studies and/or constructed over sixty mining and mineral projects with a combined value in excess of US$8bn over the last twenty years. He was a founder, Executive Manager and Chief Consulting Engineer of the Mining Engineering Consulting group within the TWP Holdings Ltd Consulting engineering consultancy practice, a major provider of engineering design, procurement, construction management and asset services largely within the mining sector. The TWP Holdings group was recently acquired and is now part of the Worley Parsons Group, one of the leading global providers of technical, project and operational support services to the mining and energy sectors.

He is a registered Professional Mining Engineer (Pr.Eng), a registered Professional Construction Project Manager (Pr.CPM) and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP). He has professional Fellowship status with the South African Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (FSAIMM) and the Institute of Quarrying (FIOQ), as well as professional memberships of most of the major mining institutes globally. He is a recognised mining technical assessment, reporting and mining project valuation expert, with key experience in stock exchange listings and the requirements for successful capital raising having sat on the boards of several international and multinational mining, engineering, mining equipment and construction sector companies.

Mr Clegg currently holds, or within the last five years has held, the following directorships:

Mr Clegg is currently not interested in any securities in the capital of the Company. There is no further information required to be disclosed in accordance with Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

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