Director/PDMR Shareholding & Issue of Equity

Herencia Resources plc

(the "Company")

Directors Dealings and Issue of Equity

The Company announces the issue of 16,000,000 ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to the exercise of options under the Company's Employees and Directors Share Option Scheme. As part of the Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to the exercise of the options, the following shares were issued to directors of the Company or their nominees:-

Following the issue of these shares the number of ordinary shares in issue in the Company is 1,520,114,250 of which Michael Bohm has an interest in 35,126,249 Ordinary Shares representing 2.31% of the total issued share capital of the Company, John Moore has an interest in 5,666,667 Ordinary Shares representing 0.37% of the total issued share capital of the Company and John Russell has an interest in 5,000,000 Ordinary Shares representing 0.33% of the total issued share capital of the Company.

Application has been made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and dealings in the new ordinary shares are expected to commence on 8 December 2011.

The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares in issue. Following the exercise of the options, the number of ordinary shares in issue and the total number of voting rights has increased to 1,520,114,250. This figure 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 Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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