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Metal Tiger PLC

01 April 2016

Metal Tiger Plc

1 April 2016

Metal Tiger Plc

("Metal Tiger" or the "Company")

DIRECTOR SHARE PURCHASE

Metal Tiger plc (LON:MTR) the London Stock Exchange AIM listed investor in strategic natural resource projects, announces that the Company has been notified that on Friday 1(st) April 2016 Paul Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of Metal Tiger, purchased through the market 100,000 ordinary shares of 0.01 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an average price of 4.00 pence per share.

Following this transaction, Paul Johnson has a beneficial interest in 8,850,000 Ordinary Shares and Michelle Johnson, wife of Paul Johnson 750,000 Ordinary Shares which together total 9,600,000 shares and represent 1.97% of the issued share capital of the Company after reflecting the admission of stock relating to warrant conversions and the purchase of 4,815,667 shares by Dianne Grammer wife of Terry Grammer, Metal Tiger plc Non-Executive Chairman, recently announced.

Listed below is a summary of the director transactions undertaken in Metal Tiger plc to date and the current shareholdings of all board members.

Director Transactions in Metal Tiger plc July 2014 to April 2016:

 
 Date   Director   Trade Type   Description   No. Shares   Price   Amount 
                                                            Paid    (GBP) 
                                                            (p) 
 
 
  01.04.16    Paul Johnson          Buy        On Market        100,000   4.00       4,000 
  29.03.16     Terry Grammer     Spouse-Buy     Placing       4,815,667    2.75    132,431 
  10.03.15     Paul Johnson      Spouse-Buy     On Market       250,000    1.39      3,475 
  09.03.16     Paul Johnson          Buy        On Market       250.000    1.28      3,200 
               Terry Grammer                    Option 
  09.03.16      Paul Johnson         Buy         Exercise     3,335,000    1.50     50,025 
  07.03.16     Paul Johnson      Spouse-Buy     On Market       500,000    1.25      6,250 
           04.03.16                   Buy        On Market      705,000    1.17      8,250 
  16.12.15    Paul Johnson          Buy        On Market        500,000   0.83       4,150 
  14.12.15    Terry Grammer         Buy        Placing       30,000,000   0.80     240,000 
              Cameron                          Option 
  10.07.15     Parry                Buy         Exercise      2,500,000   1.00      25,000 
                                               Option 
  10.07.15    Paul Johnson          Buy         Exercise      1,670,000   1.00      16,700 
                                               Option 
  10.07.15    Alex Borrelli         Buy         Exercise        500,000   1.00       5,000 
  06.07.15    Paul Johnson          Buy        On Market      1,500,000   0.97      14,500 
  29.12.14    Paul Johnson          Buy        On Market        250,000   0.98       2,440 
  15.12.14    Paul Johnson          Buy        On Market        375,000   0.85       3,188 
  18.07.14    Paul Johnson          Buy        Off Market     3,500,000   0.50      17,500 
  18.07.14    Alex Borrelli         Buy        Off Market     2,500,000   0.50      12,500 
                                                            -----------          --------- 
 
 Total                                                       53,000,917            548,609 
 

(Note: the price paid in the table above and the % of issued share capital in the table below have been rounded to two decimal places)

Director Shareholdings (including related parties) in Metal Tiger plc at 1st April 2016 (including the warrant exercise today):

 
                                               Amount 
                                  % of       Invested 
                                 Issued 
 Director            Shares      Share          Since 
                      Held       Capital    July 2014 
 
 Terry Grammer 
  (Chairman)       38,150,667    7.82%     GBP422,456 
 
 Paul Johnson 
  (CEO)             9,600,000    1.97%      GBP83,653 
 
 Cameron Parry 
  (NED)             2,500,000    0.51%      GBP25,000 
 
 Alex Borrelli 
  (NED)             5,400,000    1.11%      GBP17,500 
 

For further information on the Company, visit: www.metaltigerplc.com:

 
 Paul Johnson                                  Tel: +44 (0)7766 
  (Chief Executive                              465 617 
  Officer) 
 Terry Grammer                                 Tel: +44 (0)207 
  (Non- Executive                               099 0738 
  Chairman) 
 Sean Wyndham-Quin   Spark Advisory Partners   Tel: +44 (0) 2033 
  Neil Baldwin        Limited                   683 555 
  Nick Emerson        (Nominated Adviser)       www.sparkadvisorypartners.com 
  Andy Thacker        SI Capital                Tel: +44 (0) 1483 
                      (Sole Broker)             413 500 
 

Notes to Editors:

Metal Tiger plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM Market ("AIM") with the trading code MTR and invests in high potential mineral projects with a precious and strategic metals focus.

The Company's target is to deliver a very high return for shareholders by investing in significantly undervalued and/or high potential opportunities in the mineral exploration and development sector timed to coincide, where possible, with a cyclical recovery in the exploration and mining markets. The Company's key strategic objective is to ensure the distribution to shareholders of major returns achieved from disposals.

Metal Tiger's Metal Projects Division is focused on the development of its key project interests in Botswana, Spain and Thailand. In Botswana Metal Tiger has a growing interest in the large and highly prospective Kalahari copper/silver belt. In Spain Metal Tiger the Company has tungsten and gold interests in the highly mineralised Extremadura region. In Thailand Metal Tiger has expanding interests over licences, applications and critical historical data covering antimony, copper, gold, silver, lead and zinc opportunities.

The Company has access to a diverse pipeline of new opportunities focused on the natural resource sector including physical resource projects, new natural resource centred technologies and resource sector related fintech opportunities. Pipeline projects deemed commercially may be undertaken by Metal Tiger or by an ISDX or AIM partner with whom the Company is engaged.

Metal Tiger also has an Asset Trading Division that holds various financial instruments for trading purposes including equities, warrants and royalty income. The aim of the division is to generate profits to reinvest into the Company's project based activities.

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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