Centamin plc: Results of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

PERTH, AUSTRALIA -- (Marketwired - May 16, 2014) - Centamin plc ("Centamin" or "the Company") (LSE: CEY) (TSX: CEE) wishes to advise that the outcomes of each resolution put to the Company's members at the Annual General Meeting held at The Royal Yacht Hotel, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands on Friday 16th May 2014 at 11.00am (Jersey time), are as set out below:

                                        VOTES FOR    %   VOTES AGAINST   %   VOTES WITHHELD(1)
Ordinary Resolution 1
Annual Accounts, Director's Report 
  and Auditor's Report                 644,025,499   99.13    5,661,925    0.87   18,127,910
Ordinary Resolution 2
Adoption of the Remuneration Report    392,308,097   74.02  137,672,263   25.98  137,834,974
Ordinary Resolution 3.1
Re-Election of Mr Josef El-Raghy       534,355,558   89.51   62,649,401   10.49   70,810,375
Ordinary Resolution 3.2
Re-Election of Mr Trevor Schultz       597,824,967   89.54   69,813,772   10.46      176,595
Ordinary Resolution 3.3
Re-Election of Mr Edward Haslam        657,610,438   98.59    9,410,341    1.41      794,555
Ordinary Resolution 3.4
Re-Election of Prof. G. Robert Bowker  659,792,088   98.83    7,787,822    1.17      235,424
Ordinary Resolution 3.5
Re-Election of Mr Mark Arnesen         666,496,590   99.83    1,135,349    0.17      183,395
Ordinary Resolution 3.6
Re-Election of Mr Mark Bankes          667,049,979   99.92      518,561    0.08      246,794
Ordinary Resolution 3.7
Re-Election of Mr Kevin Tomlinson      659,790,539   99.00    6,632,774    1.00    1,392,021
Ordinary Resolution 4.1
Re-Appointment of Deloitte LLP as the 
  Company Auditors until the 
  conclusion of the audit 
  tender process                       672,200,258   99.22    5,282,946    0.78      721,390
Ordinary Resolution 4.2
Authorising the Directors to agree 
  the Auditor's Remuneration           675,634,105   99.92      542,839    0.08    2,027,649
Ordinary Resolution 5
Authorise Directors to Allot 
  Relevant Securities                  640,333,165   95.92   27,231,844    4.08      250,325
Special Resolution 6
Disapplication of Pre-Emptive Rights   640,247,066   95.91   27,285,196    4.09      283,072
Special Resolution 7
Market Purchase of Ordinary Shares     676,216,598   99.95      325,713    0.05    1,662,281

(1) A "Vote Withheld" is not a 'vote' in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'For' and 'Against' the resolution.


The total number of ordinary shares of no par value eligible to be voted at the Annual General Meeting was 1,152,107,984. The scrutineers of the poll were Computershare Investor Services PLC.

A copy of the resolutions passed at the AGM has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for viewing shortly at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, copies of which are available on the Centamin website at www.centamin.com.



For more information please contact:

Centamin plc
Josef El-Raghy, Chairman
Andy Davidson, Head of Business Development and Investor Relations
(andy.davidson@centamin.je)
+44 (0) 1534 828708

Buchanan
Bobby Morse / Gordon Poole / Gabriella Clinkard
+ 44 (0) 20 7466 5000