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RNS Number : 5027U  ECR Minerals PLC  08 August 2025

 

 

8 August 2025

 

ECR MINERALS PLC

 

("ECR Minerals", "ECR" or the "Company")

 

Directorate Change

 

Appointment of Mike Parker as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

 

ECR Minerals plc (LON: ECR), the exploration and development company focused
on gold in Australia, is pleased to announce that Mike Parker has been
appointed as a director to the board of ECR Minerals (the "Board") with
immediate effect as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director.  Mike has been
a consultant geologist to ECR since 2024.

 

Mike has extensive experience in exploration and project development,
overseeing projects from discovery through construction to production. He had
a 22-year tenure at First Quantum Minerals (FQM) where he held progressively
senior country manager positions, and was instrumental in two major copper
discoveries: the Lonshi and Frontier mines. He was country manager in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for FQM, overseeing up to 3,000 staff with
two operating copper mines and a mine construction project. Between 2011 to
2017, he was country manager for FQM in Peru, responsible for the design and
implementation of FQM's corporate strategy in Latin America, including
Argentina and Chile. He oversaw community relations programs and
sustainability processes, ensuring that projects complemented community
development in remote areas including preparations for resettlement
programs. He was responsible for government relations and communications
throughout Latin America.

 

He is currently a Director of Aftermath Silver Ltd, a pure-silver exploration
play in Chile and Peru and listed in Canada, and Technical Director of Solis
Minerals Limited, a critical minerals explorer, focused on South America, with
a dual listing in Canada and Australia. At Aftermath Silver, his focus is on
the Berenguela deposit with battery metal potential and he leads Solis
Minerals' copper exploration programmes.

 

Mike is a fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
(FAusIMM) and member of the Institute of Mining Engineers of Peru (IIMP) and
holds a BSc Mining Geology (Honours), University of Leicester.

 

Mike Parker, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company,
commented:

 

"I have been working with ECR since 2024, and I am very pleased to be joining
the Board at this pivotal time. The progress that we are making at our Blue
Mountain Project gives us increasing confidence in the potential production
capabilities there and, as our rig moves up to the Lolworth Project later in
the month, we will aim to advance the successful surface work already carried
out on that project with a targeted drilling campaign across four locations."

 

Additional disclosures required under the AIM Rules for Companies

 

Pursuant to Rule 17 and Schedule Two Paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for
Companies, Michael ("Mike") John Parker, aged 61 is, or has during the last
five years, been a director or partner of the following companies and
partnerships:

 

 Current:               Past:
 Aftermath Silver Ltd   None

 Solis Minerals Ltd

 Mining Footprint Ltd

 

Mr. Parker owns 7,042,581 ordinary shares of 0.001 pence each in the Company,
which is equivalent to 0.31% of the voting rights in the Company.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

 

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 Andrew Scott, Director

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ABOUT ECR MINERALS PLC

 

ECR Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company. ECR's wholly
owned Australian subsidiary ECR Minerals (Australia) Pty Ltd ("ECR Australia")
has 100% ownership of the Bailieston and Creswick gold projects in central
Victoria, Australia, has six licence applications outstanding which includes
one licence application lodged in eastern Victoria (Tambo gold project).

 

ECR also owns 100% of an Australian subsidiary ECR Minerals (Queensland) Pty
Ltd which has three approved exploration permits covering 946 km(2) over a
relatively unexplored area in Lolworth Range, Queensland, Australia. The
Company has also submitted a license application at Kondaparinga which is
approximately 120km(2) in area and located within the Hodgkinson Gold
Province, 80km NW of Mareeba, North Queensland.

 

Following the sale of the Avoca, Moormbool and Timor gold projects in
Victoria, Australia to Fosterville South Exploration Ltd (TSX-V: FSX) and the
subsequent spin-out of the Avoca and Timor projects to Leviathan Gold Ltd
(TSX-V: LVX), MGA has the right to receive up to A$2 million in payments
subject to future resource estimation or production from projects sold to
Fosterville South Exploration Limited.

 

ECR Australia also has approximately A$75 million of unutilised tax losses
incurred during previous operations.

 

 

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