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RNS Number : 3341J

Emerging Market Minerals PLC

17 December 2015

17 December 2015

Emerging Market Minerals Plc

("Emerging Market Minerals" or the "Company")

Directorate Change

Emerging Market Minerals (AIM: EMM), the AIM quoted uranium, thorium, base and precious metals and gemstones exploration and development company operating in Madagascar, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Martin Nicholls as Executive Chairman of the Company, with immediate effect. Accordingly, Dr Bernard Olivier, the Company's current Executive Chairman, will assume the role of Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.

Martin has been a director of, and significant shareholder in, several UK and overseas private and quoted companies and is currently the owner and a director of Oasis Capital Ltd ("Oasis"), an investment company with a series of corporate interests including the deliverable FX business Hyperwire and Keypoint Discovery, a fully automated due diligence service. Martin, through Oasis, established Tier1FX a regulated FX Brokerage, was the co-owner of ACS Cayman Limited, a Cayman based manager of consumer debt funds, and the co-owner of NovoCapital Limited, a Swiss-based property finance and development management company. Outside the financial services industry, through Oasis, Martin is the owner of Audit Com U.K., a European provider of communications security services, and Technical Security Services, an IT security business. Martin has specialist knowledge in the areas of fraud prevention and anti-money laundering, serving on a number of industry working groups for specialist security services and investigations.

Martin is a former army officer, having graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and has commercial experience in the USA, Europe, Africa and the former Eastern bloc countries.

For further information, please contact:

 
 Emerging Market Minerals Plc                    Tel: +61 8 9368 4966 
 Martin Nicholls, Executive Chairman 
  Bernard Olivier, Non-Executive Director 
 
 Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated Adviser)   Tel: +44 (0)20 7409 3494 
 James Harris 
 Matthew Chandler 
 James Dance 
 
 Pareto Securities Limited (Broker)          Tel: +44 (0)20 7786 4370 
 Guy Wilkes 
 
 or visit: www.emergingmarketminerals.com

Additional information on Mr Martin Nicholls:

The following additional information is provided in accordance with paragraph (g) of Schedule Two of the AIM Rules for Companies:

Martin William Richard Nicholls (aged 63)

 
 Current Directorships / Partnerships   Past Directorships / Partnerships 
                                         (last 5 years) 
 Hyperwire Limited                      Fair Foreign Xchange Limited 
 Oasis Capital Ltd (UAE)                Matryoshka LLP 
 Oasis Capital Markets Ltd (UAE)        Meridium UK Projects Limited (formerly 
                                         Keypoint Discovery Limited) 
 Oasis FX Ltd 
 Oasis Fund Management Ltd (UAE)        Oasis Alternatives Limited 
 Proliquidity Ltd 
 Tier1FX Ltd (Hong Kong)

Mr Nicholls was previously a director of Greystone Environmental Limited ("Greystone"), which entered into a creditors' voluntary liquidation on 26 October 1993. Greystone was dissolved on 20 March 1996 with a total deficit as regards creditors of GBP285,793.86.

There is no other information that is required to be disclosed pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule Two to the AIM Rules for Companies.

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