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RNS Number : 3909Q

Avocet Mining PLC

29 November 2016

Gold shipment recommenced at Inata

Further to the announcement on 25 November, Avocet Mining PLC ("Avocet" or "the Company") announces that shipment #315 containing approximately 6,100 ounces left Inata on Friday 25 November, and successfully passed through customs at Ouagadougou airport. The gold is currently in transit to Rand Refinery in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Discussions are continuing to secure the release the 1,400 ounces of shipment #314, which currently remain under seizure.

Further updates will be provided in due course.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT

 
Avocet Mining PLC  Bell Pottinger             J.P. Morgan Cazenove 
                    Financial PR Consultants   Corporate Broker 
David Cather, CEO  Lorna Cobbett              Michael Wentworth-Stanley 
 Jim Wynn, FD 
+44 20 3709 2570   +44 (0)20 3772 2500        +44 20 7742 4000

NOTES TO EDITORS

Avocet Mining PLC ("Avocet" or the "Company") is an unhedged gold mining and exploration company listed on the London Stock Exchange (ticker: AVM.L) and the Oslo Børs (ticker: AVM.OL). The Company's principal activities are gold mining and exploration in West Africa.

In Burkina Faso the Company owns 90% of the Inata Gold Mine. The Inata Gold Mine poured its first gold in December 2009 and produced 74,755 ounces of gold in 2015. Other assets in Burkina Faso include five exploration permits surrounding the Inata Gold Mine in the broader Bélahouro region. The most advanced of these projects is Souma, some 20 kilometers from the Inata Gold Mine.

The Company also holds an interest in the Tri-K project in Guinea. On 10 October 2016, the Company announced that it had agreed to dispose of 40% of the project to Managem, a Moroccan group listed on the Casablanca stock exchange, subject to, inter alia, shareholder approval, and which will increase upon completion of a bankable feasibility study for a CIL plant at the site, the incurring of expenditures of at least US$10 million, and the enlarging of the ore reserve, to 70% (in the event of an increase of the reserve to 1 million ounce or more) or 60% (if less than 1 million ounces).

This information is provided by RNS

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