SolGold PLC Announces Director Dealings

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On April 30, 2021, SolGold plc announced director share acquisitions related to a recent capital raising. Directors Liam Twigger, Kevin O'Kane, Brian Moller, Keith Marshall, Nicholas Mather, Maria Amparo Alban, James Clare, and Elodie Grant Goodey participated in the placing at a price of 25.5p per share. Total shares acquired included 392,156 shares by Twigger, O'Kane, Mather, and Clare, along with smaller quantities by other directors, amounting to approximately GBP 99,999.78 in total. These transactions comply with the Market Abuse Regulation requirements.

Positive

• Directors' acquisition of shares indicates confidence in the company's future.
• The capital raising may provide necessary funding for business expansion and operational needs.

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• None.

BISHOPSGATE, LONDON / ACCESSWIRE / April 30, 2021 / Further to the Company's previous announcement of 28 April 2021 regarding its placing, the Company has received notifications of the shares acquired by various directors of SolGold plc in the capital raising.

The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 (as it forms part of the domestic law in the United Kingdom by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), provide further detail on the Director Dealings.

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM.

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Liam Twigger
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	SolGold plc
b)	LEI:	213800HGFADQBMIEVI76
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary shares of 1p GB00B0WD0R35
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Participation in Placing
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Acquisition Price(s) Volume(s) 25.5p 392,156
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	392,156 25.5p (GBP 99,999.78 in total)
e)	Date of the transaction:	28 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	Outside a Trading Venue

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Kevin O'Kane
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	SolGold plc
b)	LEI:	213800HGFADQBMIEVI76
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary shares of 1p GB00B0WD0R35
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Participation in Placing
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Acquisition Price(s) Volume(s) 25.5p 392,156
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	392,156 25.5p (GBP 99,999.78 in total)
e)	Date of the transaction:	28 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	Outside a Trading Venue

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Brian Moller
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	SolGold plc
b)	LEI:	213800HGFADQBMIEVI76
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary shares of 1p GB00B0WD0R35
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Participation in Placing
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Acquisition Price(s) Volume(s) 25.5p 78,431
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	78,431 25.5p (GBP 19,999.90 in total)
e)	Date of the transaction:	28 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	Outside a Trading Venue

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Keith Marshall
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	SolGold plc
b)	LEI:	213800HGFADQBMIEVI76
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary shares of 1p GB00B0WD0R35
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Participation in Placing
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Acquisition Price(s) Volume(s) 25.5p 98,039
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	98,039 25.5p (GBP 24,999.94 in total)
e)	Date of the transaction:	28 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	Outside a Trading Venue

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Nicholas Mather
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	SolGold plc
b)	LEI:	213800HGFADQBMIEVI76
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary shares of 1p GB00B0WD0R35
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Participation in Placing
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Acquisition Price(s) Volume(s) 25.5p 392,156
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	392,156 25.5p (GBP 99,999.78 in total)
e)	Date of the transaction:	28 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	Outside a Trading Venue

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Maria Amparo Alban
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	SolGold plc
b)	LEI:	213800HGFADQBMIEVI76
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary shares of 1p GB00B0WD0R35
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Participation in Placing
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Acquisition Price(s) Volume(s) 25.5p 28,176
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	28,176 25.5p (GBP 7,184.88 in total)
e)	Date of the transaction:	28 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	Outside a Trading Venue

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	James Clare
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	SolGold plc
b)	LEI:	213800HGFADQBMIEVI76
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary shares of 1p GB00B0WD0R35
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Participation in Placing
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Acquisition Price(s) Volume(s) 25.5p 143,137
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	143,137 25.5p (GBP 36,499.94 in total)
e)	Date of the transaction:	28 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	Outside a Trading Venue

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Elodie Grant Goodey
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	SolGold plc
b)	LEI:	213800HGFADQBMIEVI76
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary shares of 1p GB00B0WD0R35
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Participation in Placing
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Acquisition Price(s) Volume(s) 25.5p 19,607
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	19,607 25.5p (GBP 4,999.78 in total)
e)	Date of the transaction:	28 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	Outside a Trading Venue

By order of the Board
Karl Schlobohm
Company Secretary

CONTACTS

Karl Schlobohm SolGold Plc (Company Secretary) kschlobohm@solgold.com.au	Tel: +61 (0) 7 3303 0661
Ingo Hofmaier SolGold Plc (GM - Project & Corporate Finance) kschlobohm@solgold.com.au	Tel: +44 (0) 20 3823 2131
Fawzi Hanano SolGold Plc (Investors / Media) fhanano@solgold.com.au	Tel: +44 (0) 20 3823 2131

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ABOUT SOLGOLD
SolGold is a leading resources company focussed on the discovery, definition and development of world-class copper and gold deposits. In 2018, SolGold's management team was recognised by the "Mines and Money" Forum as an example of excellence in the industry and continues to strive to deliver objectives efficiently and in the interests of shareholders. SolGold, with 76 concessions covering approximately 3,100km², is the largest and most active concession holder in Ecuador and is aggressively exploring the length and breadth of this highly prospective and gold-rich section of the Andean Copper Belt which is currently responsible for c40% of global mined copper production.

The Company operates with transparency and in accordance with international best practices. SolGold is committed to delivering value to its shareholders, while simultaneously providing economic and social benefits to impacted communities, fostering a healthy and safe workplace and minimizing the environmental impact.

Dedicated stakeholders

SolGold employs a staff of over 800 employees of whom 98% are Ecuadorean. This is expected to grow as the operations expand at Alpala, and in Ecuador generally. SolGold focusses its operations to be safe, reliable and environmentally responsible and maintains close relationships with its local communities. SolGold has engaged an increasingly skilled, refined and experienced team of geoscientists using state of the art geophysical and geochemical modelling applied to an extensive database to enable the delivery of ore grade intersections from nearly every drill hole at Alpala. SolGold has over 80 geologists on the ground in Ecuador exploring for economic copper and gold deposits.

About Cascabel and Alpala

The Alpala deposit is the main target in the Cascabel concession, located on the northern section of the heavily endowed Andean Copper Belt, the entirety of which is renowned as the base for nearly half of the world's copper production. The project area hosts mineralisation of Eocene age, the same age as numerous Tier 1 deposits along the Andean Copper Belt in Chile and Peru to the south. The project base is located at Rocafuerte within the Cascabel concession in northern Ecuador, an approximately three-hour drive on sealed highway north of the capital Quito, close to water, power supply and Pacific ports.

Having fulfilled its earn-in requirements, SolGold is a registered shareholder with an unencumbered legal and beneficial 85% interest in ENSA (Exploraciones Novomining S.A.) which holds 100% of the Cascabel concession covering approximately 50km². The junior equity owner in ENSA is required to repay 15% of costs since SolGold's earn in was completed, from 90% of its share of distribution of earnings or dividends from ENSA or the Cascabel concession. It is also required to contribute to development or be diluted, and if its interest falls below 10%, it shall reduce to a 0.5% NSR royalty which SolGold may acquire for US$3.5million.

SolGold's Regional Exploration Drive

SolGold is using its successful and cost-efficient blueprint established at Alpala, and Cascabel generally, to explore for additional world class copper and gold projects across Ecuador. SolGold is the largest and most active concessionaire in Ecuador.

The Company wholly owns four other subsidiaries active throughout the country that are now focussed on thirteen high priority gold and copper resource targets, several of which the Company believes have the potential, subject to resource definition and feasibility, to be developed in close succession or even on a more accelerated basis compared to Alpala.

SolGold is listed on the London Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange (LSE/TSX: SOLG). The Company has on issue a total of 2,292,316,433 fully paid ordinary shares and 114,775,000 share options.

See www.solgold.com.au for more information. Follow us on twitter @SolGold plc

CAUTIONARY NOTICE
News releases, presentations and public commentary made by SolGold plc (the "Company") and its Officers may contain certain statements and expressions of belief, expectation or opinion which are forward looking statements, and which relate, inter alia, to interpretations of exploration results to date and the Company's proposed strategy, plans and objectives or to the expectations or intentions of the Company's Directors, including the plan for developing the Project currently being studied as well as the expectations of the Company as to the forward price of copper. Such forward-looking and interpretative statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors beyond the control of the Company that could cause the actual performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from such interpretations and forward-looking statements.

Accordingly, the reader should not rely on any interpretations or forward-looking statements; and save as required by the exchange rules of the TSX and LSE or by applicable laws, the Company does not accept any obligation to disseminate any updates or revisions to such interpretations or forward-looking statements. The Company may reinterpret results to date as the status of its assets and projects changes with time expenditure, metals prices and other affecting circumstances.

This release may contain "forward‑looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward‑looking information includes, but is not limited to, statements regarding the Company's plans for developing its properties. Generally, forward‑looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved".

Forward‑looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward‑looking information, including but not limited to: transaction risks; general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; future prices of mineral prices; accidents, labour disputes and shortages and other risks of the mining industry. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, risks relating to the ability of exploration activities (including assay results) to accurately predict mineralization; errors in management's geological modelling and/or mine development plan; capital and operating costs varying significantly from estimates; the preliminary nature of visual assessments; delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other required approvals; uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future; changes in equity markets; inflation; the global economic climate; fluctuations in commodity prices; the ability of the Company to complete further exploration activities, including drilling; delays in the development of projects; environmental risks; community and non-governmental actions; other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry; the ability of the Company to retain its key management employees and skilled and experienced personnel; and those risks set out in the Company's public documents filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward‑looking information. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.

The Company and its officers do not endorse, or reject or otherwise comment on the conclusions, interpretations or views expressed in press articles or third-party analysis, and where possible aims to circulate all available material on its website.

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SOURCE: SolGold PLC

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FAQ

What did SolGold plc announce on April 30, 2021?

SolGold plc announced director share acquisitions as part of a capital raising, with multiple directors participating in the placing at a price of 25.5p per share.

How many shares were acquired by directors of SolGold plc?

Directors acquired a total of 392,156 shares at a price of 25.5p each, resulting in an approximate total value of GBP 99,999.78.

Who are the directors involved in the recent capital raising of SolGold plc?

Directors involved include Liam Twigger, Kevin O'Kane, Brian Moller, Keith Marshall, Nicholas Mather, Maria Amparo Alban, James Clare, and Elodie Grant Goodey.

What is the significance of director share acquisitions in SolGold plc?

Director share acquisitions often indicate confidence in the company's performance and potential growth, which can positively influence investor sentiment.