26th Oct 2006 10:21
Centamin Egypt Limited26 October 2006 Centamin Egypt Limited ("Centamin" or "the Company") Issue of Equity The Company announces that, following the exercise of options issued under theEmployee Share Option Plan 2002, 100,000 ordinary shares have been issued andallotted today at an exercise price of A$0.2310 per share. A further 250,000 options have been issued and allotted today following theexercise of options issued under the Employee Share Option Plan 2002 at anexercise price of A$0.3549 per share by Mr Gordon Brian Speechly, a director ofthe Company. Following this exercise, Mr Speechly's holding in the Company'sshares is 250,000 fully paid ordinary shares, representing approximately 0.04per cent. of the issued share capital. Application has been made for the new ordinary shares to be admitted to tradingon AIM. The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinaryshares in the Company and trading of these shares on AIM is expected to commenceon 1 November 2006. The total number of Ordinary Shares on issue following this issue is579,105,369. 26 October 2006 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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