Exercise of Options and Warrants
Updated : 13:58
8 January 2021
Argo Blockchain PLC
('Argo' or 'The Company')
Exercise of Options and Warrants
Argo, the leading cryptocurrency miner based in the UK LSE: ARB), announces that it has received a notice of exercise of certain options ("Options") and notice of exercise of certain warrants ("Warrants") over ordinary shares of £0.001 each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"). The exercise notices relates to Options and Warrants granted in connection with the Company's admission to the Official List and to trading on the Main Market.
As a result of the exercise of the Options, the Company has issued in aggregate 4,547,525 new Ordinary Shares to the holders of the Options. The new Ordinary Shares were issued at the exercise price of £0.16 per share. The aggregate gross proceeds to the Company from this option exercise is £727,604.
As a result of the exercise of the Warrants, the Company has issued in aggregate 917,363 new Ordinary Shares to the holders of the Warrants. 377,696 new Ordinary Shares were issued at the exercise price of £0.16 per share and 539,667 new Ordinary shares were issued at the exercise price of £0.08 per share. The aggregate gross proceeds to the Company from this warrant exercise is £103,605.
Application will be made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to the standard segment of the Official List and to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. Admission is expected to occur at 8:00 a.m. on 13 January 2021. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares of the Company.
Following Admission, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue will be 323,115,413 and the total number of voting rights will therefore be 323,115,413. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
The information communicated in this announcement is inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation 596/2014.
For further information please contact:
Argo Blockchain | |
Peter Wall, Chief Executive Ian MacLeod, Executive Chairman | via Tancredi Tel: +44 203 434 2334
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Corporate Broker - finnCap Ltd | |
Jonny Franklin-Adams / Kate Washington (Corporate Finance) Sunila de Silva (Corporate Broking)
| Tel: +44 20 7220 0500
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Media Relations - Tancredi Intelligent Communications | |
Salamander Davoudi Emma Valgimigli
| Tel: +44 7957 549 906
Tel: +44 7727 180 873 |
About Argo:
Argo Blockchain plc is a global leader in cryptocurrency mining with one of the largest and most efficient operations powered by clean energy. The Company is headquartered in London, UK and its shares are listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker: ARB.
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