Further Investment of £100,000 in Vardar

Beowulf Mining plc

("Beowulf" or the "Company")

Further Investment of £100,000 in Vardar 

Beowulf (AIM: BEM; Spotlight: BEO), the mineral exploration and development company, is pleased to announce that the Company has today invested a further £100,000 in Vardar Minerals Limited (“Vardar”), which increases the Company’s ownership of Vardar from 40.1 per cent to 41.5 per cent.

The funds will enable Vardar to conclude its 2019 exploration programme and to ready itself for starting DC-IP geophysical surveys in 2020.

Kurt Budge, Chief Executive Officer of Beowulf, commented:

“Following this autumn’s announcements regarding Vardar’s exploration achievements at Mitrovica and Viti, and the Board’s excellent visit to Kosovo, Beowulf has decided to invest a further £100,000 in Vardar and increase its ownership to 41.5 per cent.

“Vardar represents a significant opportunity for the Company to continue to invest in exploration. It’s pleasantly refreshing to work in Kosovo, where, on the past year’s evidence, Vardar has been able to make tremendous progress, get things done, and deliver real exploration success.

“I look forward to keeping the market updated on further progress.”

About Beowulf Mining plc

Beowulf’s strategy is to build a sustainable and innovative mining company, which creates shareholder value by developing mining assets, delivering production and generating cash flow, and in so doing meets society’s ongoing need for minerals, metals and economic prosperity.

Beowulf is developing a high-quality asset base, which is diversified by geography and commodity, enabling it to simultaneously advance several projects up the mining value curve and create shareholder value.

Additionally, the Board of Directors continues to look beyond the Company for value creation opportunities.

The Company’s first priority remains the award of the Exploitation Concession for Kallak North, and thereafter completing the Scoping Study.  The introduction of a strategic partner/investor who understands the value of Kallak as a high-quality asset, which could be in production within four to five years, is an ongoing consideration, but does not preclude the Company from continuing to add value to Kallak in the meantime.

Fennoscandian Resources (“Fennoscandian”), the Company’s graphite business, is pursuing a strategy to develop a ‘resource footprint’ of natural flake graphite prospects that can provide ‘security of supply’ and enable Finland to achieve its ambition of self-sufficiency in battery manufacturing.  The Company is a recipient of Business Finland funding, which is supporting Fennoscandian to move downstream, and develop its knowledge in processing and manufacturing value-added graphite products.

The Company owns 41.5 per cent of Vardar, a UK registered exploration company with a focus on the metal endowed Balkan region and one of the first companies to be awarded exploration licences in Kosovo.  Vardar holds exploration licences for the Mitrovica and Viti projects.  Both projects are located within the Tethyan Belt, a major orogenic metallogenic province for gold and base metals which extends from the Alps (Carpathians/Balkans) to Turkey, Iran and Indochina, and contains several world class discoveries.  The Tethyan Belt of south-east Europe can be regarded as Europe’s chief copper-gold (lead-zinc-silver) province.

Glossary:

Induced Polarisation (IP) - Variations in chargeability can be diagnostic, for example, when aiming to characterize a mineral deposit (e.g. Mt. Isa), where the chargeability of the mineralized zone is often higher than the host rock. Often an induced polarization (IP) experiment is performed with the Direct Current Resistivity (DCR) hence they are often called DC-IP survey. Both conductivity and chargeability distribution can be recovered from a DC-IP survey.

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