Issue of shares

Anglo Asian Mining PLC 16 April 2008 For immediate release on 16 April 2008 ANGLO ASIAN MINING PLC ('Anglo Asian' or 'the Company') Issue of shares Anglo Asian Mining PLC (AIM:AAZ) announces that, in line with previous quarters, the following Ordinary Shares have been issued to Directors in lieu of salary/ fees for the period 1 November 2007 to 31 January 2008, using the closing share price on 31 January 2008 of 10.75p. The Directors have chosen to take shares in lieu of salary/fees in order to preserve the cash in the Company for the Gedabek project. Number of Ordinary Resulting number of % holding of Ordinary Shares awarded Ordinary Shares held Shares with voting rights Resource Capital Fund 32,567 6,260,575 6.25 III L.P. Tim 30,307 75,871 0.08 Eggar John 41,861 9,673,261 9.66 Sununu Reza 395,358 29,506,566 29.46 Vaziri Khosrow 23,256 43,256 0.04 Zamani Total 523,349 * these shares have been awarded to RCF Management LLC Application will be made for the new Ordinary Shares of Anglo Asian Mining PLC to be admitted to trading on AIM. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares in the Company and trading of these shares on AIM is expected to commence on 22 April 2008. The total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights following this issue is 100,145,229. For further details, please contact: Anglo Asian Mining PLC Gordon Lewis, Chief Executive +994 12 499 3350 Richard Round, Finance Director +44 1525 211 988 Numis Securities Limited John Harrison +44 20 7260 1000 Parkgreen Communications Justine Howarth +44 20 7851 7480 Bex Sanders-Hewett This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange