27th Feb 2025 12:20
27 February 2025
Rockfire Resources Plc
("Rockfire" or the "Company" or the "Group")
Grant of Share Options
Rockfire Resources plc (LON: ROCK), the base metal, precious metal and critical mineral exploration company, announces that options to subscribe for 175,000,000 new ordinary shares in the Company (the "Ordinary Shares") have been granted to the Directors of Rockfire as part of their service agreements on 21 February 2025 at an exercise price of 0.25 pence per Ordinary Share.
This exercise price is double the mid-market closing price on 21 February 2025 of 0.12 pence, plus 0.01 pence, in accordance with the terms of the Directors' service agreements. The options have a term of three years, and any unexercised options will expire at midnight on 20 February 2028.
The options granted will result in an increase from 57,000,000 to 232,000,000 in the number of outstanding options over Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 5.89% of the Company's issued share capital.
The options vested immediately upon issue.
The grants made are as follows:
Directors | No. of options | Exercise price | Option expiry date | Total no. of options now held |
David Price | 50,000,000 | 0.25 pence | 20 February 2028 | 65,000,000 |
Gordon Hart | 50,000,000 | 0.25 pence | 20 February 2028 | 65,000,000 |
Ian Staunton | 25,000,000 | 0.25 pence | 20 February 2028 | 34,000,000 |
Nicholas Walley | 25,000,000 | 0.25 pence | 20 February 2028 | 34,000,000 |
Patrick Elliott | 25,000,000 | 0.25 pence | 20 February 2028 | 34,000,000 |
Total | 175,000,000 |
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| 232,000,000 |
For further information on the Company, please visit www.rockfireresources.com or contact the following:
Rockfire Resources plc: | |
David Price, Chief Executive Officer | |
Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser & Broker): | Tel: +44 (0) 20 3328 5656 |
John Depasquale / George Payne (Corporate Finance) | |
Guy McDougall / Kelly Gardiner (Sales and Corporate Broking) |
Notes to Editors
Rockfire Resources plc (LON: ROCK) is a gold, base metal and critical mineral exploration company, with a high-grade zinc/lead/silver/germanium deposit in Greece and a portfolio of gold/copper/silver projects in Queensland Australia.
The Molaoi deposit in Greece has a JORC Inferred Mineral Resource of 15 million tonnes @ 7.26 % Zn, 1.75 % Pb and 39.5 g/t Ag, for 1.09 million tonnes of zinc, 260,000 tonnes of lead and 19.1 million ounces of silver.
The Plateau deposit in Queensland has a JORC Inferred resource of 131,300 ounces of gold and 800,000 ounces of silver. Plateau is subject to a joint venture with ASX-listed Sunshine Metals Ltd (ASX:SHN).
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e) | Date of the transaction | 21 February 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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