Significant Shareholding

6 Mar 2006 12:28

Mercator Gold PLC06 March 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6 March 2006 MERCATOR GOLD PLC ("Mercator Gold" or the "Company") SIGNIFICANT SHAREHOLDING The Company were informed on 2 March 2006 that at the close of business on 20February 2006, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and associated entities, actingthrough its business group and legal entities detailed below, had an interest in3,700,000 ordinary shares of Mercator Gold, representing 9.44 per cent. of theissued share capital of the Company. +----------------------------------------------+----------------------+----------+| |Number of shares |% held |+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+----------+|Colonial First State Investment Limited |3,100,000 |7.91 |+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+----------+|First State Investment Management (UK) Limited|600,000 |1.53 |+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+----------+| | | || | | ||TOTAL CBA BANK GROUP HOLDING: |3,700,000 |9.44 |+----------------------------------------------+----------------------+----------+ This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange