20 May 2025

ECR MINERALS PLC

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

AIM Rule 17 Notification

ECR Minerals plc (LON: ECR), the exploration and development company focused on gold in Australia, announces the following information relating to directors' disclosure pursuant to rule 17 and Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

Nick Tulloch, Chairman of the Company, was a director of DG Innovate PLC ("DG Innovate") from 10 April 2021 to 29 August 2024. In this regard, Nick Tulloch has recently become aware that on 30 April 2025 DG Innovate entered into a creditor's voluntary liquidation.

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ABOUT ECR MINERALS PLC

ECR Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company. ECR's wholly owned Australian subsidiary Mercator Gold Australia Pty Ltd ("MGA") 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 LUX Exploration Pty Ltd ("LUX") which has three approved exploration permits covering 946 km² over a relatively unexplored area in Lolworth Range, Queensland, Australia. The Company has also submitted a license 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), 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. 

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