Results of Annual General Meeting and General Meeting

Annual General Meeting

Avocet Mining PLC ('Avocet' or the 'Company') confirms that all resolutions at the Annual General Meeting of its shareholders, held on 9 June 2016, were carried as proposed. The final proxy voting figures for the meeting are shown below:

General Meeting

In addition, the Company confirms that all resolutions at the General Meeting of its shareholders, also held on 9 June 2016, were carried as proposed. The final proxy voting figures for this meeting are shown below:

Notes

a) 'Votes for' includes those votes giving discretion to the Chairman

b) 'Votes withheld' do not count toward votes cast 'for' or 'against' a resolution

c) As at 7 June 2016, the Company had 209,496,710 ordinary shares in issue, of which 209,054,701 represented ordinary shares with voting rights (after excluding 442,009 treasury shares). Ordinary shares with voting rights were entitled to vote for all resolutions at the Annual General Meeting and the General Meeting.

In accordance with the Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the Special Resolutions passed at these meetings has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

Unless the context otherwise requires, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the meanings given to them in the Notices of Meeting and Shareholders' Circulars dated 12 May 2016.

A short presentation has also been made available on the Company's website at www.avocetmining.com

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NOTES TO EDITORS

Avocet Mining PLC ('Avocet' or the 'Company') is an unhedged gold mining and exploration company listed on the London Stock Exchange (ticker: AVM.L) and the Oslo Børs (ticker: AVM.OL). The Company's principal activities are gold mining and exploration in West Africa.

In Burkina Faso the Company owns 90% of the Inata Gold Mine. The Inata Gold Mine poured its first gold in December 2009 and produced 74,755 ounces of gold in 2015. Other assets in Burkina Faso include five exploration permits surrounding the Inata Gold Mine in the broader Bélahouro region. The most advanced of these projects is Souma, some 20 kilometres from the Inata Gold Mine.

In Guinea, Avocet owns 100% of the Tri-K Project in the north east of the country. Drilling to date has outlined a Mineral Resource of 3.0 million ounces, and in October 2013 the Company announced a maiden Ore Reserve on the oxide portion of the orebody, which is suitable for heap leaching, of 0.5 million ounces. As an alternative, the potential exists to exploit the entire 3.0 million ounce Tri-K orebody via the CIL processing method. An exploitation permit was awarded for Tri-K on 27 March 2015.