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27/11/2025 07:00

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RNS Number : 1752J  ECR Minerals PLC  27 November 2025

 

 

27 November 2025

 

ECR MINERALS PLC

 

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

 

Directorate Change

 

Appointment of Chris Gibbs as Independent Non-Executive Director

 

ECR Minerals plc (LON: ECR), the exploration and development company focused
on gold in Australia, is pleased to announce that, further to the Company's
announcement of 8 September 2025, Chris Gibbs has been appointed to the board
of ECR Minerals (the "Board") with effect from 26 November 2025 as an
Independent Non-Executive Director.  Chris has been a consultant to ECR since
September 2025 and his appointment to the Board forms part of his consultancy
arrangements with the Company.

 

Chris brings over 25 years of international mining executive experience,
spanning North America, Australia, Europe, Africa and South America. His
career includes executive positions with a number of large international
mining companies, including Centerra Gold, Placer Dome, Argonaut Gold and
Barrick Gold.

 

Chris was the former CEO of ASX-listed American Rare Earths, when it advanced
its 2.63 billion tonne Halleck Creek rare earth project and substantially grew
its market capitalisation. At American Rare Earths, he was instrumental in its
transformation into a development-ready US rare earths company, which
substantially increased its market value. At Argonaut Gold, he oversaw the
Magino Gold Project from feasibility through to construction and operations
readiness. Earlier roles with Centerra Gold, Barrick Gold and Placer Dome
involved large-scale mine development, operational turnarounds and cost
transformation initiatives across multiple jurisdictions.

 

Chris currently serves as a Non-Executive Director of ASX-listed Godolphin
Resources Limited and is a Director of the Critical Minerals Institute.  He
resides in Queensland, Australia, the state in which ECR's core Blue Mountain
and Lolworth Projects are located.

 

Chris will continue to take half of his remuneration in ECR ordinary shares,
in line with the rest of the Board in being partly remunerated through equity
and aligning their interests closely with those of ECR shareholders.

 

ECR Chairman Nick Tulloch commented: "I am very pleased to welcome Chris Gibbs
to our board of directors.  As I said when Chris began working with us in
September, his experience in developing multi-million-dollar mining projects
is self-evident.  ECR is changing.  Through our proposed acquisition of the
Raglan Project and our ongoing project at Blue Mountain, our strategy for the
next stage in our development is gold production and we believe that Chris'
expertise will guide us in the execution of these opportunities."

 

Additional disclosures required under the AIM Rules for Companies

 

Pursuant to Rule 17 and Schedule Two Paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for
Companies, Christopher ("Chris") John Gibbs, aged 60 is, or has during the
last five years, been a director or partner of the following companies and
partnerships:

 

 Current:                                   Past:

 Godolphin Resources Limited (Australia)    American Rare Earths Limited (Australia)

 Triausmin Pty Ltd (Australia)              American Rare Earths Limited (New Zealand)

 Critical Lithium Pty Ltd (Australia)       Murray Basin Minerals Pty Ltd (Australia)

 Critical Rare Earths Pty Ltd (Australia)   Wyoming Rare Pty Ltd (Australia)

 Godolphin Tenements Pty Ltd (Australia)    Broken Hill Chemical Pty Limited (Australia)

 Odyssey Mining Pty Ltd (Australia)         Broken Hill Minerals Pty Ltd (Australia)

 Morrison Heights Pty Ltd (Australia)       Broken Hill Uranium Pty Ltd (Australia).

 

Chris owns 880,435 ordinary shares of 0.001 pence each in the Company, which
is equivalent to 0.03% of the voting rights in the Company.

 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

 

 ECR Minerals Plc                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Tel: +44 (0) 20 8080 8176
 Nick Tulloch, Chairman                                                                                                                                                                                                                             info@ecrminerals.com

 Andrew Scott, Director

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ABOUT ECR MINERALS PLC

 

ECR Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company operating
through two wholly owned Australian subsidiaries ECR Minerals (Australia) Pty
Ltd ("ECR Australia") and ECR Minerals (Queensland) Pty Ltd ("ECR
Queensland").

 

ECR Australia owns the Bailieston and Creswick gold projects in central
Victoria, Australia as well as the Tambo gold project in eastern Victoria.

 

ECR Queensland has two approved exploration permits over the Blue Mountain
alluvial gold project in central Queensland, Australia, which it is currently
working to bring into production.  It also has three approved exploration
permits covering 946 km2 over a relatively unexplored area in Lolworth Range
in northern Queensland. Furthermore, ECR Queensland has also submitted a
licence application at Kondaparinga which is approximately 120km2 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), ECR Australia has the right to receive up to A$2 million in
payments subject to future resource estimation or production from these
projects.

 

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

 

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