Herencia receives £1.86m in Tranche Two Funding

Herencia Resources plc

Herencia takes receipt of £1.86 Million in

 Tranche Two Funding

Further to the announcement of 6 January 2014, Herencia Resources plc (AIM:HER),the Chile-focussed mineral exploration and development Company, is pleased to announce that the Company has received the remaining GBP£1,860,000 Tranche 2 funding ("Tranche Two Investment") from Shining Capital Management ("Shining").

With the receipt of these funds Shining will be issued 300 million new ordinary shares ("Tranche Two Shares") in Herencia issued at a price of 0.62p per share. Application will be made for the Tranche Two Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and dealings are expected to commence on 21 January 2014.

Shining currently holds 100 million ordinary shares representing approximately 4.7% of the total issued shares of the Company. Following the issue of the 300 million Tranche Two Shares, Shining will hold 400 million ordinary shares representing approximately 16.4% of the total issued shares in the Company.

Following the issue of the Tranche Two shares the total number of shares in issue will be 2,443,960,817. There are no shares held in treasury, therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company will be 2,443,960,817. 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 under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please contact:

Graeme Sloan, Herencia Resources plc +61 8 9481 4204

Katy Mitchell, WH Ireland Limited +44 161 832 2174

Further background details on the Company can be found at www.herenciaresources.com

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