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Avocet Mining PLC

21 August 2017

Update on the Discussion with SMB Creditors

and rescheduling of Half-Year Results

Avocet Mining PLC, ('the Company') announces today that the standstill agreement between its subsidiary Société des Mines de Bélahouro SA ('SMB') that operates the Inata gold mine in Burkina Faso and certain of SMB's financial and trade creditors (the 'Major Creditors") has been extended until 25 August 2017.

Further, the Company announces that it will publish its half-year results on 29 September 2017.

In order for the discussions between SMB and its Major Creditors in respect of the balance sheet restructuring to conclude, the Standstill Agreement is extended until 25 August 2017.

For practical reasons, the Company has rescheduled the publication of its half-year results. These results will be announced on 29 September 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT

 
Avocet Mining PLC       Blytheweigh        J.P. Morgan Cazenove 
                         Financial PR       Corporate Broker 
Boudewijn Wentink, CEO  Tim Blythe         Michael Wentworth-Stanley 
 Yolanda Bolleurs, CFO   Camilla Horsfall 
                         Megan Ray 
+44 20 3709 2570        +44 207 138 3204   +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 per cent of the Inata Gold Mine. The Inata Gold Mine poured its first gold in December 2009 and produced 72,485 ounces of gold in 2016. 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 22 May 2017, the Company announced that it had completed its agreement to dispose of 40 per cent of the project to Managem, a Moroccan group listed on the Casablanca stock exchange, 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 per cent (in the event of an increase of the reserve to 1 million ounce or more) or 60 per cent (if less than 1 million ounces).

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