New Website Launch

Alecto Minerals plc / EPIC: ALO / Market: AIM / Sector: Exploration & Development

13 December 2011

Alecto Minerals plc ('Alecto' or 'the Company')

New Website Launch

Alecto Minerals plc, the AIM listed resource investment company focussed on Africa, is pleased to announce that it has launched a new website, which can be viewed at www.alectominerals.com. The new site has updated information on Alecto's gold, base metal and uranium portfolio located in highly prospective regions of Mauritania and Ethiopia, which are known to host economic mineral deposits.

All of the information required by Rule 26 of the AIM Rules for Companies is available under the heading 'Investors' in the main menu of the website.

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For further information, please visit www.alectominerals.com or contact:

Notes:

Alecto Minerals plc is an AIM listed exploration company focussed on Africa with a diverse portfolio of exploration assets in Mauritania and Ethiopia. In Mauritania, it has three gold and base metal development licences totalling 1,902 sq km and two uranium licences totalling 1,592 sq km in the highly prospective Mauritanide mobile belt. It also holds the 1,953 sq km gold exploration licence in the highly prospective Aysid-Metekel region of north western Ethiopia and the 945 sq km Wayu Boda gold licence in the mineral-rich central-southern Adola greenstone belt in southern Ethiopia. 

The Company is committed to conducting exploratory work across its portfolio, designed to strengthen its knowledge of the assets and delineate targets for further exploration. In tandem, the Board continues to evaluate a number of synergistic assets to build shareholder value.