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Thor Mining PLC

25 November 2021

25 November 2021

THOR MINING PLC

ISSUE OF EQUITY

The directors of Thor Mining Plc ("Thor" or the "Company") (AIM, ASX: THR, OTCQB: THORF) announce the following issue of shares and warrants:

Alford East Stage 1 Farmin

As reported to the market on 16 November 2021, the Company has fulfilled its Stage 1 expenditure obligations under the Alford East Farmin and Joint Venture Agreement (the "Agreement"), entitling the Company to increase its interest to 51% of the oxide mineral rights from Spencer Metals Pty Ltd ("Spencer") over the Alford East Copper-Gold Project, South Australia.

Under the Stage 1 requirements, the Company has issued 15,625,000 Thor ordinary shares of 0.01p each ("Ordinary Shares") to Spencer, being Ordinary Shares to the value of A$250,000 at an issue price of A$0.016 per Ordinary Share based on the VWAP (volume weighted average price) for the last five trading days on the ASX. Additionally, under the stage 1 requirements, Thor has issued 31,250,000 warrants, exercisable at $0.03 anytime prior to expiry on 25 November 2026.

Settlement and dealings

Application will be made to the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange ("AIM") for 15,625,000 Thor Ordinary Shares, pursuant to the issue of shares, which rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued Ordinary Shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM. Dealings on AIM are expected to commence at 8:00am on or around 1 December 2021 ("Admission").

Total Voting Rights

For the purposes of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules ("DTRs"), following Admission, Thor will have 1,772,421,411 Ordinary Shares in issue with voting rights attached. Thor holds no shares in treasury. This figure of 1,772,421,411 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 Company, under the ASX Listing Rules or the DTRs.

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For further information on the Company, please visit www.thormining.com or contact the following:

 
  Thor Mining PLC 
  Nicole Galloway Warland, Managing Director      Tel: +61 (8) 7324 1935 
   Ray Ridge, CFO / Company Secretary              Tel: +61 (8) 7324 1935 
 
  WH Ireland Limited (Nominated Adviser and       Tel: +44 (0) 207 220 1666 
   Joint Broker) 
  Jessica Cave / Darshan Patel / Megan Liddell 
   Jasper Berry (Corporate Broking) 
  SI Capital Limited (Joint Broker)               Tel: +44 (0) 1483 413 
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  Nick Emerson 
 
  Yellow Jersey (Financial PR)                    thor@yellowjerseypr.com 
  Sarah Hollins / Henry Wilkinson                 Tel: +44 (0) 20 3004 9512 
 

Updates on the Company's activities are regularly posted on Thor's website www.thormining.com , which includes a facility to register to receive these updates by email, and on the Company's twitter page @ThorMining .

About Thor Mining PLC

Thor Mining PLC (AIM, ASX: THR; OTCQB: THORF) is a diversified resource company quoted on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange, ASX in Australia and OTCQB Market in the United States.

The Company is advancing its diversified portfolio of precious, base, energy and strategic metal projects across USA and Australia. Its focus is on progressing its copper, gold, uranium and vanadium projects, while seeking investment/JV opportunities to develop its tungsten assets.

Thor owns 100% of the Ragged Range Project, comprising 92 km(2) of exploration licences with highly encouraging early-stage gold and nickel results in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, for which drilling is currently underway.

At Alford East in South Australia, Thor is earning an 80% interest in copper-gold deposits considered amenable to extraction via In Situ Recovery techniques (ISR). In January 2021, Thor has announced an Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate of 177,000 tonnes contained copper & 71,000 oz gold(1).

Thor also holds a 30% interest in Australian copper development company EnviroCopper Limited, which in turn holds rights to earn up to a 75% interest in the mineral rights and claims over the resource on the portion of the historic Kapunda copper mine and the Alford West copper project, both situated in South Australia, and both considered amenable to recovery by way of ISR.(2)(3)

Thor holds 100% interest in two private companies with mineral claims in the US states of Colorado and Utah with historical high-grade uranium and vanadium drilling and production results.

Thor holds 100% of the advanced Molyhil tungsten project, including measured, indicated and inferred resources , in the Northern Territory of Australia, which was awarded Major Project Status by the Northern Territory government in July 2020. Diamond drilling is currently underway to test potential extension to mineralisation.

Adjacent to Molyhil, at Bonya, Thor holds a 40% interest in deposits of tungsten, copper, and vanadium, including Inferred resource estimates for the Bonya copper deposit, and the White Violet and Samarkand tungsten deposits.

Notes

(1) www.thormining.com/sites/thormining/media/pdf/asx-announcements/20210127-maiden-copper.gold-estimate-alford-east-sa.pdf

(2) www.thormining.com/sites/thormining/media/pdf/asx-announcements/20172018/20180222-clarification-kapunda-copper-resource-estimate.pdf

(3) www.thormining.com/sites/thormining/media/aim-report/20190815-initial-copper-resource-estimate---moonta-project---rns---london-stock-exchange.pdf

(4) www.thormining.com/sites/thormining/media/pdf/asx-announcements/20210408-molyhil-mineral-resource-estimate-updated.pdf

(5) www.thormining.com/sites/thormining/media/pdf/asx-announcements/20200129-mineral-resource-estimates---bonya-tungsten--copper.pdf

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