Beacon Hill Resources plc

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10 January 2014

Beacon Hill Resources Plc / AIM: BHR / ASX: BHU / Sector: Mining

Beacon Hill Resources Plc ('Beacon Hill or 'the Company')

Issue and Allotment of Ordinary Shares following Exercise of Conversion rights

Beacon Hill hereby announces that the Company has received a notice of exercise by Darwin Strategic Limited ('Darwin'), to convert £320,000 of Darwin's Convertible Loan Note at a gross conversion price of 1.0424p per share.  Details of the Convertible Loan Note were announced to the market on 4 October 2013 pursuant to which 30,698,388 ordinary shares (the 'Convertible Shares') now fall to be issued.  Application has been made for the Conversion Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM with admission expected to take place on 16 January 2014. The Shares will rank pari passuin all respects with all existing ordinary shares in the Company.

Following admission of the Shares, the Company's enlarged issued share capital will comprise 1,680,161,497 ordinary shares with voting rights.  This figure of 1,680,161,497 ordinary shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

**ENDS**

For further information, please contact:


Beacon Hill Resources Plc


Justin Farr-Jones, Chairman (jfarr-jones@bhrplc.com)

Rowan Karstel, Chief Executive Officer (rowan.karstel@bhrplc.com)


Canaccord Genuity Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)

Neil Elliot / Joe Weaving

+44 20 7523 8000

St Brides Media & Finance Limited (Financial Public Relations)

Susie Geliher / Elisabeth Cowell

+44 20 7236 1177


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