The board of Strategic Minerals Plc announced that Mr. Paul Harrison has resigned as a director of the company with immediate effect and that Mr. Julien Francis McInally and Mr. Lyle Curtis Hobbs have been invited to join the board of directors of the company in a non-executive capacity as soon as practical subject only to customary due diligence and regulatory clearance. The company also announced that Peter Stephens has agreed to resign from the board when Lyle Hobbs' appointment is confirmed and David Anderson will resign as a director, but remain with the company, when Julien McInally's appointment is confirmed. Julien McInally is a CFO/Company Secretary with over 15 years of resource industry experience.

Lyle Hobbs is a mining engineer with significant operational experience.