Short Term Loan Facility

03 March 2022

Scotgold Resources Limited ("Scotgold" or the "Company")

Provision of Short Term Loan Facility

Scotgold Resources Limited (AIM: SGZ), announces that it has entered into a short term Loan Facility with Bridge Barn Limited ("Bridge Barn") a company owned and controlled by Nathaniel Le Roux (Non-Executive Director) providing £250,000 to Scotgold (the "Short Term Loan Facility").

The Short Term Loan Facility has been provided to cover the Company's immediate working capital requirements which have been impacted by the delay in shipment of the Company's gold concentrate from port, due to current macro and geo-political events impacting global shipping lines.  Production and the Company's mine optimisation plan to ramp up the production profile of its Cononish gold mine continue to progress in line with management's expectations.

Short Term Loan Facility  

The Short Term Loan facility is being provided to SGZ Cononish Ltd (SC569264), a 100% owned subsidiary of the Company ("Borrower") by Bridge Barn Limited ('Bridge Barn') pursuant to an amendment and extension of the existing restated facility agreement entered into with Bridge Barn Limited on 1^st January 2022. The principal points of the Short Term Loan Facility are as follows:

Related Party transaction:

Bridge Barn is a company owned and controlled by Mr Nat le Roux, who is a Non-executive Director of the Company and a Substantial Shareholder as defined by the AIM Rules for Companies. The details of the Restructured Loan entered into by Bridge Barn and the Borrower and the further details as required to be disclosed under Schedule 4 of the AIM Rules for Companies are provided above.

The provision of the Short Term Loan Facility by Bridge Barn constitutes a related party transaction pursuant to Rule 13 of the AIM Rules for Companies. Accordingly, the board of Scotgold, excluding Nat Le Roux who is precluded from opining consider, having consulted with SP Angel, the Company's nominated adviser, that the provision of the Short Term Loan Facility is fair and reasonable insofar as its shareholders are concerned.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ("MAR"), and is disclosed in accordance with the Company's obligations under Article 17 of MAR.

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Notes

Scotgold Resources Ltd (AIM:SGZ), is Scotland's first commercial gold producer. The Company poured first gold in November 2020 at its Cononish Gold and Silver Mine ('Cononish) in Tyndrum, Scotland and is developing it into a +23,500-ounce gold mine per annum by end of Q1 2023. Cononish is a high-grade underground mining operation with a central processing plant producing gold concentrate for off-take and gold doré for the Scottish Jewellery industry.  Once in full production, the mine has anticipated forecast operating costs of c.£544/oz AISC, which will place Cononish in the lowest quartile of gold mining operations globally.

It is Scotgold's vision to build a mid-tier gold mining company in Scotland with multiple operations in the country that enhance the local environment and economy in ways that have an enduring positive impact.