Alba Mineral Resrcs. - Alba Completes Further Motzfeldt Acquisition
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Alba Mineral Resources PLC
14 May 2026
Alba Mineral Resources Plc / EPIC: ALBA / Market: AIM / Sector: Mining
14 May 2026
Alba Mineral Resources Plc
("Alba" or the "Company")
Alba Completes Further Acquisition of Motzfeldt Project
PDMR disclosures
Alba Mineral Resources plc (AIM: ALBA), the gold and critical raw materials focused exploration and
development company, is delighted to confirm that the Greenland Government has approved the Company's
acquisition of a controlling 51% interest in the Motzfeldt Critical Metals Project in south Greenland ("Motzfeldt" or
the "Project").
Further to the Company's announcement of 28 October 2025, this approval was the final condition required to be
satisfied for Alba to proceed to complete the acquisition of a further 25.5% interest in the Project and thereby
increase its interest to a total of 51%. Consequently, the Company has now proceeded to the Completion of this
acquisition.
The Greenland Government has also confirmed that the Project's exploration licence has formally progressed
into its second five-year term, covering the period from 2026 to 2030 inclusive.
Dr Curtis Rooks, Alba's Principal Geologist, commented:
"The completion of Alba's acquisition of a majority interest in the Motzfeldt Project marks a major milestone for
the Company. Motzfeldt is one of only five projects in Greenland to be granted 'very large deposit' status[1] and
is regarded as one of the country's most important critical mineral projects.
"Our recent confirmation of high-grade results for multiple critical metal commodities at the Merino prospect,
together with the existing defined resource at the Aries deposit, further underlines Motzfeldt's potential as a large-
scale polymetallic project across an extensive licence area.
"We look forward to providing further updates regarding our ambitious work programme for the remainder of the
year as we advance Motzfeldt firmly towards the next stage of development."
Issue of Consideration Shares and Admission to trading
In accordance with the terms set out in the Company's RNS dated 28 October 2025, 2,146,103,977 new
ordinary shares in Alba have been issued ("Consideration Shares"). It is expected that Admission of
the new ordinary shares will become effective at 8.00 a.m. on or around 20 May 2026. The
Consideration Shares will be issued credited as fully paid and will rank in full for all dividends and other
distributions declared, made or paid after Admission and will otherwise rank on Admission pari passu in
all respects with the existing ordinary shares.
Total Voting Rights
Following Admission of the Consideration Shares, the total number of ordinary shares in issue will be
25,981,154,208. The Company does not hold any ordinary shares in treasury. Therefore, the total
number of ordinary shares with voting rights will be 25,981,154,208. 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 under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Directors' Holdings
George Frangeskides and his connected parties will receive 1,814,703,811 Consideration Shares.
Therefore, following Admission of the Consideration Shares, the total number of ordinary shares in issue
which are held by George Frangeskides and his spouse will be 1,978,057,105 representing 7.6% of the
enlarged issued share capital. The Directors' interests in aggregate shall amount to approximately 7.9%
of the enlarged issued share capital.
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of the UK Market Abuse Regulation and
the Directors of the Company are responsible for the release of this announcement.
Forward Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements relating to expected or anticipated future events and
anticipated results that are forward-looking in nature and, as a result, are subject to certain risks and
uncertainties, such as general economic, market, financial and business conditions, competition for and
availability of qualified staff and contractors, regulatory processes and actions, technical issues, new legislation,
uncertainties resulting from potential delays or changes in plans, uncertainties resulting from working in a new
political jurisdiction, uncertainties regarding the results of exploration, uncertainties regarding the timing and
granting of prospecting rights, uncertainties regarding the timing and granting of regulatory and other third party
consents and approvals, uncertainties regarding the Company's or any third party's ability to finance, execute and
implement future plans and programmes, and the occurrence of unexpected events. Actual results achieved may
vary from the information provided herein as a result of numerous known and unknown risks and uncertainties
and other factors.
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Alba Mineral Resources plc
George Frangeskides, Executive Chairman
+44 20 3950 0725
SPARK Advisory Partners Limited (Nomad)
Andrew Emmott
+44 20 3368 3555
CMC Markets plc (Broker)
Thomas Smith / Douglas Crippen
+44 20 3003 8632
Alba's Projects & Investments
Projects Operated by Alba Location Ownership
Clogau (gold) Wales 100%
Dolgellau Gold Exploration (gold) Wales 100%
Gwynfynydd (gold) Wales 100%
Investments Held by Alba Location Ownership
Motzfeldt Critical Metals Project Greenland 51%
GreenRoc Strategic Materials Plc (graphite -
anode)
Greenland 23.97%
Horse Hill (oil) England 11.765%
Earn-in Projects Location Earn-in Rights
Finnsbo (rare earths, copper, gold) Sweden Up to 100%
Notification of Dealings by Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities and their Closely Associated
Persons
The notifications set out below are provided in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse
Regulation.
1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a) Name 1. George Frangeskides
2. Sofia Frangeskides
3. Sarah Potter
2 Reason for the notification
a) Position/status 1. PDMR - Executive Chairman
2. PCA - spouse of George Frangeskides,
3. PDMR - Chief Financial Officer
b) Initial notification / Amendment Initial Notification
3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or
auction monitor
a) Name Alba Mineral Resources plc
b) LEI 213800Z1BU53AWR9J329
4 Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type
of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a) Description of the financial
instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
Ordinary shares of 0.01p each
GB00B06KBB18
b) Nature of the transaction Consideration Shares
c) Price(s) and volume(s) Price(s) (p) Volume(s)
1. 0.02414 184,474,834
2. 0.02414 1,630,228,977
3. 0.02414 62,137,531
d) Aggregated information Price(s) (p) Volume(s)
0.02414 1,876,841,342
e) Date of the transaction 14 May 2026
f) Place of the transaction Outside a trading venue
[1] Source: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS.
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