Admission of Shares and Director/PDMR Shareholding

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Further to the announcements on 23 November 2023 and on 7 December 2023, Great Southern Copper plc (LSE: GSCU), the company focused on copper-gold and lithium exploration in Chile, is pleased to announce that admission of 88,102,802 new ordinary shares to listing on the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") and to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange("Admission"), became effective at 8.00 a.m. this morning.

Details of new shares admitted

40,222,206 new ordinary shares of 1p each, at a price of £0.0225 per share, for a total amount of £905,000 through a placing and subscription ("Placing and Subscription" or "Fundraising");
41,749,995 new ordinary shares at £0.012 per share, arising on conversion of a convertible loan pursuant to the agreement entered into between the Company and its major shareholder Foreign Dimensions Pty Ltd dated and announced on 15 May 2023;
4,436,834 new ordinary shares at £0.012 per share (in the case of Samuel Garrett) and at £0.0139, £0.0145 and £0.0227 (in the case of Charles Bond, Chairman, being quarterly VWAPs) and at £0.227 (in the case of Paul Williams, former CFO), pursuant to an arrangement between the Company and these individuals pursuant to which some or all of their respective salary has been sacrificed and accrued; and
1,693,767 new ordinary shares at £0.012 per share as part payment to the vendors of the San Lorenzo project under an option agreement with the Company dated 8 July 2023.

Director participation

The Directors of the Company participated in the Fundraising and subscribed, in aggregate, for 3,333,332 new ordinary shares. Details of the subscriptions by Directors are as follows:

Name	Existing shareholding	Number of new ordinary shares subscribed for	Salary sacrifice shares	Shareholding on Admission	Percentage of issued share capital on Admission
Charles Bond	2,093,644	444,444	1,423,280	3,961,368	1.15%
Sam Garrett	5,760,211	2,222,222	2,881,402	10,863,835	3.17%
Nick Briers		1,033,333	444,444	1,477,777	0.43%
Stuart Greene		933,333	222,222	1,155,555	0.34%
	9,820,521	3,333,332	4,304,682	17,458,535	5.09%

Total voting rights

The total number of issued shares and the total number of voting rights in the Company is 343,189,211. The above figure should 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 to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

	1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	1. Charles Bond - Chairman 2. Samuel Garrett - Chief Executive Officer 3. Nicholas Briers - Non-Executive Director 4. Stuart Greene - Non-Executive Director
	2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	See 1(a) above
b)	Initial notification/ Amendment	Initial Notification
a)	Name	Great Southern Copper plc
b)	LEI	213800RF6N9WA8PZH313
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary shares of 1 pence each GB00BLB5BF24
b)	Nature of the transaction	A. Subscription for shares B. Satisfaction of accrued salary for Charles Bond and Samuel Garrett
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) A 1. 2.25p 2. 2.25p 3. 2.25p 4. 2.25p 444,444 2,222,222 444,444 222,222 B 1. 1.39p 1. 1.45p 1. 2.27p 2. 1.20p 511,710 579,137 332,433 2,881,402
d)	Aggregated information Aggregated volume - Price Aggregated volume - Price	Subscription shares 3,333,332 2.25p Salary sacrifice shares 4,304,682 As box c
e)	Date of the transaction	14 December 2023
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange

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