Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc: Notification of relevant change to significant shareholder
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ST HELIER, Jersey, Jan. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc (“Caledonia” or the “Company”) (NYSE AMERICAN: CMCL; AIM: CMCL; VFEX: CMCL) announces that it received notification on January 19, 2023 from Van Eck Associates Corporation (“Van Eck”), a “significant shareholder” of the Company as defined by the AIM Rules for Companies.
Upon the recent completion of the transaction to acquire Bilboes Gold Limited (see announcement by the Company on January 6, 2023), the Company issued 4,425,797 new shares representing 25.64 per cent of Caledonia’s fully diluted share capital. The Company now has three new significant shareholders, as set out in the announcement, and, as a consequence, Van Eck’s percentage interest in the fully diluted share capital has decreased and the Company has been notified by Van Eck accordingly.
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A copy of the notification is below.
Enquiries:
| Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc Mark Learmonth Camilla Horsfall |
Tel: +44 1534 679 802 |
| Cenkos Securities plc (Nomad and Joint Broker) Adrian Hadden Neil McDonald Pearl Kellie |
Tel: +44 207 397 1965 |
| Liberum Capital Limited (Joint Broker) Scott Mathieson/Kane Collings |
Tel: +44 20 3100 2000 |
| BlytheRay Financial PR Tim Blythe/Megan Ray |
Tel: +44 207 138 3204 |
| 3PPB Patrick Chidley Paul Durham |
Tel: +1 917 991 7701 |
| Curate Public Relations (Zimbabwe) Debra Tatenda |
Tel: +263 77802131 |
| IH Securities (Private) Limited (VFEX Sponsor – Zimbabwe) Dzika Dhana Lloyd Mlotshwa |
Tel: +263 (242) 745 119/33/39 |
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TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings
| NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR HOLDINGS (to be sent to the relevant issuer and to the FCA in Microsoft Word format if possible)i | ||||||
| 1a. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attachedii: | Caledonia Mining Corp PLC | |||||
| 1b. Please indicate if the issuer is a non-UK issuer (please mark with an “X” if appropriate) | ||||||
| Non-UK issuer | X | |||||
| 2. Reason for the notification (please mark the appropriate box or boxes with an “X”) | ||||||
| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | X | |||||
| An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments | ||||||
| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights | ||||||
| Other (please specify)iii: | ||||||
| 3. Details of person subject to the notification obligationiv | ||||||
| Name | Van Eck Associates Corporation | |||||
| City and country of registered office (if applicable) | New York, NY USA | |||||
| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)v | ||||||
| Name | VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF VanEck Junior Gold Miners UCITS ETF |
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| City and country of registered office (if applicable) | ||||||
| 5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached (DD/MM/YYYY)vi: | 18/01/2023 | |||||
| 6. Date on which issuer notified (DD/MM/YYYY): | 19/01/2023 | |||||
| 7. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation | ||||||
| % of voting rights attached to shares (total of 8. A) | % of voting rights through financial instruments (total of 8.B 1 + 8.B 2) |
Total of both in % (8.A + 8.B) | Total number of voting rights of issuervii | |||
| Resulting situation on the date on which threshold was crossed or reached | 3.08% | 3.08% | 17,258,923 | |||
| Position of previous notification (if applicable) |
529,779 | 4.128% | ||||
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