Minera IRL Directors' Dealing and Exercise of Options
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% of the
Company's
issued
share
Number capital
of Share- held
Date ordinary Price holding following
of shares of following the
Trans- trans- trans- trans- trans- trans-
Name action action acted action action action
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Courtney 2 April
Chamberlain Sale 2012 2,000,000 64 pence n/a n/a
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Courtney Exercise 2 April
Chamberlain of options 2012 2,000,000 45 pence 3,492,692 2.31%
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2 April
Douglas Jones Sale 2012 70,000 64 pence n/a n/a
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Exercise 2 April
Douglas Jones of options 2012 100,000 45 pence 322,936 0.21%
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2 April
Graeme Ross Sale 2012 50,000 64 pence n/a n/a
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Exercise 2 April
Graeme Ross of options 2012 50,000 45 pence 5,000 0.00%
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2 April
Napoleon Valdez Purchase 2012 500,000 64 pence 544,000 0.36%
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Application has been made for the 2,230,000 new ordinary shares created as the result of option exercises to be admitted to trading on AIM. Trading is expected to begin on 9 April 2012.
Following the admission of the new shares to trading, the Company will have 151,072,884 Ordinary Shares in issue.
Minera IRL Limited is the AIM traded, TSX and BVL listed holding company of precious metals mining and exploration companies focused in Latin America. Minera IRL is led by an experienced senior management team with extensive industry experience, particularly operating in South America. The Group operates the Corihuarmi Gold Mine and the advanced gold projects Ollachea in Peru and Don Nicolas in Argentina. For more information, please visit www.minera-irl.com.
Some of the statements contained in this release are forward-looking statements, such as estimates and statements that describe the Company's future plans, objectives or goals, including words to the effect that the Company or management expects a stated condition or result to occur. Since forward-looking statements address future events and conditions, by their very nature, they involve inherent risks and uncertainties.
While these forward-looking statements, and any assumptions upon which they are based, are made in good faith and reflect our current judgment regarding the direction of our business, actual results will almost always vary, sometimes materially, from any estimates, predictions, projections, assumptions or other future performance suggestions herein. Except as required by applicable law or regulation, Minera IRL Limited does not intend to update any forward-looking statements to conform these statements to actual results.
The Toronto Stock Exchange neither approves nor disapproves the information contained in this News Release.
Contacts:
Minera IRL Limited
Trish Kent
Vice President, Corporate Relations
+511 418 1230
www.minera-irl.com
Canaccord Genuity Limited
(Nominated Adviser & Broker, London)
John Prior or Adam Miller
+ 44 (0)20 7523 8350