Arizona Tribune - Empire Metals Limited Announces Long-Term Incentive Plan and Grant of Awards

LONDON, UK / ACCESS Newswire / July 16, 2026 / Empire Metals Limited (LON:EEE), the AIM-quoted resource exploration and development company, announces that the Board has adopted a Long-Term Incentive Plan (the "LTIP") and has made awards under it to directors, senior management and employees (the "Awards").

Summary of the LTIP and the Awards

The Awards comprise, in aggregate, 8,250,000 nil-cost share awards to be satisfied from ordinary shares already held by the Company's Employee Benefit Trust (the "EBT Awards") and options over 12,000,000 new ordinary shares of the Company with an exercise price of 40 pence per share (the "Options"). The Awards together represent approximately 2.67% of the Company's issued ordinary share capital. As the EBT Awards are satisfied from the ordinary shares already held by the Employee Benefit Trust, they create no new dilution. Following the Awards, the Company's aggregate outstanding share-scheme commitments (all outstanding options plus shares held by the Employee Benefit Trust) represent approximately 12.70% of issued ordinary share capital.

Vesting of all Awards is subject to demanding share-price performance conditions. Each Award vests in four equal tranches of 25%, with each tranche vesting only when the Company's closing share price has been at or above the relevant target for 10 consecutive trading days, subject to the holder remaining in service at the trigger date:

Awards to Directors and PDMRs

The Awards to the directors of the Company and to persons discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMRs") are as follows:

Awards over a further 2,000,000 EBT shares and 5,500,000 Options have been made to other employees of the group, including the Company's Australian-based team. Neil O'Brien (Chairman) and Peter Damouni (Non-Executive Director) have received no Awards.

Related-party transaction

The Awards to Shaun Bunn, Greg Kuenzel and Phil Brumit, each a director of the Company, constitute related-party transactions under AIM Rule 13. Neil O'Brien and Peter Damouni, being the directors independent of the Awards, consider, having consulted with SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP, the Company's Nominated Adviser, that the terms of the Awards to the directors are fair and reasonable insofar as the Company's shareholders are concerned.

MAR disclosure

Certain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, as incorporated into UK law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, until the release of this announcement.

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About Empire Metals Limited

Empire Metals Ltd (AIM:EEE)(OTCQX:EPMLF) is an exploration and resource development company focused on the commercialisation of the Pitfield Titanium Project, located in Western Australia. The titanium discovery at Pitfield is of unprecedented scale and hosts one of the largest and highest-grade titanium resources reported globally, with a Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) totalling 2.2 billion tonnes grading 5.1% TiO₂ for 113 million tonnes of contained TiO₂.

Titanium mineralisation at Pitfield occurs from surface and displays exceptional grade continuity along strike and down dip. The MRE extends across just 20% of the known mineralised footprint, providing substantial potential for further resource expansion.

Conventional processing has already produced a high-purity product grading 99.25% TiO₂, suitable for titanium sponge metal or pigment feedstock. With excellent logistics and established infrastructure, Pitfield is strategically positioned to supply the growing global demand for titanium and other critical minerals.

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SOURCE: Empire Metals Limited

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