Directorate Change

ECR Minerals plc (LON: ECR), the exploration and development company focused on gold in Australia, is pleased to announce that Mike Parker has been appointed as a director to the board of ECR Minerals (the "Board") with immediate effect as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director. Mike has been a consultant geologist to ECR since 2024.

Mike has extensive experience in exploration and project development, overseeing projects from discovery through construction to production. He had a 22-year tenure at First Quantum Minerals (FQM) where he held progressively senior country manager positions, and was instrumental in two major copper discoveries: the Lonshi and Frontier mines. He was country manager in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for FQM, overseeing up to 3,000 staff with two operating copper mines and a mine construction project. Between 2011 to 2017, he was country manager for FQM in Peru, responsible for the design and implementation of FQM's corporate strategy in Latin America, including Argentina and Chile. He oversaw community relations programs and sustainability processes, ensuring that projects complemented community development in remote areas including preparations for resettlement programs. He was responsible for government relations and communications throughout Latin America.

He is currently a Director of Aftermath Silver Ltd, a pure-silver exploration play in Chile and Peru and listed in Canada, and Technical Director of Solis Minerals Limited, a critical minerals explorer, focused on South America, with a dual listing in Canada and Australia. At Aftermath Silver, his focus is on the Berenguela deposit with battery metal potential and he leads Solis Minerals' copper exploration programmes.

Mike is a fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FAusIMM) and member of the Institute of Mining Engineers of Peru (IIMP) and holds a BSc Mining Geology (Honours), University of Leicester.

Mike Parker, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company, commented:

"I have been working with ECR since 2024, and I am very pleased to be joining the Board at this pivotal time. The progress that we are making at our Blue Mountain Project gives us increasing confidence in the potential production capabilities there and, as our rig moves up to the Lolworth Project later in the month, we will aim to advance the successful surface work already carried out on that project with a targeted drilling campaign across four locations."

Additional disclosures required under the AIM Rules for Companies

Pursuant to Rule 17 and Schedule Two Paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies, Michael ("Mike") John Parker, aged 61 is, or has during the last five years, been a director or partner of the following companies and partnerships:

• Parker owns 7,042,581 ordinary shares of 0.001 pence each in the Company, which is equivalent to 0.31% of the voting rights in the Company.