Issue of Equity

Herencia Resources plc

(the "Company")

Issue of Equity

The Company confirms that is has received notice of the exercise of employee options over 2,000,000 ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares").

Application has been made for the Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and admission is expected to take place on 13 January 2012.

The 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 1,522,114,250. 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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