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Atalaya MiningAnnouncement

02/03/2017 07:07

RNS Number : 2922Y
Atalaya Mining PLC
02 March 2017
2 March 2017
Atalaya Mining plc ("Atalaya" or the "Company")
Granting of share options
Atalaya (AIM: ATYM, TSX: AYM), the European mining and development company, announces that, in accordance with the Company's incentive share option program, it has granted 800,000 incentive share options to Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs") and management. Such options have been granted pursuant to the resolutions passed by shareholders at the Company's 2016 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") and according to the provisions of the Company's Share Option Plan 2013. In addition, the Company has granted 100,000 share options to Cesar Sanchez, CFO of the Company, as part of his contractual entitlement on joining the Company in July 2016.
The share options expire five years from the date of grant (23 February 2017), have an exercise price of 144.0 pence per share, based on the minimum share price in the five days preceding the grant date and vest in three equal tranches - one third on grant, one third on the first anniversary of the original grant date and one third on the second anniversary of the original grant date.
The 900,000 share options have been allocated as per the table below.
Name
Position
Number of incentive share options issued
Total beneficial holding (shares & options) following this notification
Total beneficial holding as % of Company's fully diluted issued share capital
Alberto Lavandeira
CEO/Managing Director
150,000
450,000
0.38%
Julian Sanchez
COO
95,000
195,000
0.16%
Cesar Sanchez
CFO
100,000
100,000
0.08%
George Hadjineophytou
GFC and Company Secretary
55,000
55,000
0.05%

PDMR Total 
400,000



Management
500,000



Total
900,000


The Company now has an aggregate of 1,765,354 options and warrants on issue.
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014.
Contacts:
Atalaya Mining plc 
Roger Davey / Alberto Lavandeira
+34 959 59 28 50
Canaccord Genuity (NOMAD and Joint Broker)
Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor / Martin Davison
+44 20 7523 8000
BMO Capital Markets (Joint Broker)
Jeffrey Couch/Neil Haycock/Tom Rider
+44 20 7236 1010

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