3rd Apr 2012 07:00
Minera IRL Directors' Dealing and Exercise of Options
London and Toronto, 3 April 2012: Minera IRL Limited ("Minera IRL" or the "Company"), (TSX:IRL) (AIM:MIRL) (BVL:MIRL) the Latin America gold mining company, announces that on 2 April 2012, the following Directors of the Company dealt in the ordinary shares of the Company and exercised options as detailed below:
Name | Transaction | Date of transaction | Number of ordinary shares transacted | Price of transaction | Shareholding following transaction | % of the Company's issued share capital held following the transaction |
Courtney Chamberlain | Sale | 2 April 2012 | 2,000,000 | 64 pence | n/a | n/a |
Courtney Chamberlain | Exercise of options | 2 April 2012 | 2,000,000 | 45 pence | 3,492,692 | 2.31% |
Douglas Jones | Sale | 2 April 2012 | 70,000 | 64 pence | n/a | n/a |
Douglas Jones | Exercise of options | 2 April 2012 | 100,000 | 45 pence | 322,936 | 0.21% |
Graeme Ross | Sale | 2 April 2012 | 50,000 | 64 pence | n/a | n/a |
Graeme Ross | Exercise of options | 2 April 2012 | 50,000 | 45 pence | 5,000 | 0.00% |
Napoleon Valdez | Purchase | 2 April 2012 | 500,000 | 64 pence | 544,000 | 0.36% |
Application has been made for the 2,230,000 new ordinary shares created as the result of option exercises to be admitted to trading on AIM. Trading is expected to begin on 9 April 2012.
Following the admission of the new shares to trading, the Company will have 151,072,884 Ordinary Shares in issue.
For more information please contact:
Minera IRL Trish Kent, Vice President, Corporate Relations
| +511 418 1230 |
Canaccord Genuity Limited (Nominated Adviser & Broker, London) John Prior Adam Miller
| + 44 (0)20 7523 8350 |
Minera IRL Limited is the AIM traded, TSX and BVL listed holding company of precious metals mining and exploration companies focused in Latin America. Minera IRL is led by an experienced senior management team with extensive industry experience, particularly operating in South America. The Group operates the Corihuarmi Gold Mine and the advanced gold projects Ollachea in Peru and Don Nicolas in Argentina. For more information, please visit www.minera-irl.com.
The Toronto Stock Exchange neither approves nor disapproves the information contained in this News Release.
Some of the statements contained in this release are forward-looking statements, such as estimates and statements that describe the Company's future plans, objectives or goals, including words to the effect that the Company or management expects a stated condition or result to occur. Since forward-looking statements address future events and conditions, by their very nature, they involve inherent risks and uncertainties.
While these forward-looking statements, and any assumptions upon which they are based, are made in good faith and reflect our current judgment regarding the direction of our business, actual results will almost always vary, sometimes materially, from any estimates, predictions, projections, assumptions or other future performance suggestions herein. Except as required by applicable law or regulation, Minera IRL Limited does not intend to update any forward-looking statements to conform these statements to actual results.
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