ECR Minerals PLC - Holding in Company

15 January 2026

ECR MINERALS PLC

("ECR Minerals", "ECR" or the "Company")

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Holding in Company

Further to the Company's announcement on 8 January 2026, ECR Minerals plc (AIM: ECR), the gold exploration and development company focused on Australia, announces the following changes to the interests of its Directors following the issue and admission of a total of 599,999,991 new ordinary shares of 0.001 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange becoming effective at 8.00 a.m. this morning ("Admission").

As a result of the issue and Admission of the 599,999,991 new Ordinary Shares, the revised interests of ECR's Directors (which also includes a revision to a significant shareholding in the Company as defined in the AIM Rules for Companies) are as follows:

Following Admission, the Company's issued Ordinary Share capital now consists of 3,290,888,016 Ordinary Shares with one voting right per Ordinary Share. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares and voting rights in the Company is 3,290,888,016. 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 pursuant to the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

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ABOUT ECR MINERALS PLC

ECR Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company operating through three wholly owned Australian subsidiaries ECR Minerals (Australia) Pty Ltd ("ECR Australia"), ECR Minerals (Queensland) Pty Ltd ("ECR Queensland") and Raglan Resources Pty Ltd ("Raglan Resources").

ECR Australia owns the Bailieston and Creswick gold projects in central Victoria, Australia as well as the Tambo gold project in eastern Victoria.

Raglan Resources has a mining lease at the Raglan alluvial gold project in central Queensland, Australia and ECR Queensland has two approved exploration permits over the nearby Blue Mountain alluvial gold project.  ECR is currently working to bring both projects into production.  ECR Queensland also has three approved exploration permits covering 946 km² over a relatively unexplored area in Lolworth Range in northern Queensland. Furthermore, it has also submitted a licence application at Kondaparinga which is approximately 120km² in area and located within the Hodgkinson Gold Province, 80km NW of Mareeba, North Queensland.

Following the sale of the Avoca, Moormbool and Timor gold projects in Victoria, Australia to Fosterville South Exploration Ltd (TSX-V: FSX) and the subsequent spin-out of the Avoca and Timor projects to Leviathan Gold Ltd (TSX-V: LVX), ECR Australia has the right to receive up to A$2 million in payments subject to future resource estimation or production from these projects. 

ECR Australia also has approximately A$76 million of unutilised tax losses incurred during previous operations.