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15 December 2009                                                                                                       AIM: GMA

GMA RESOURCES PLC

("GMA" or the "Company")

Further re: Issue of Equity

Following its announcement on 19 October 2009, GMA announces that 10,659,156  ordinary  shares in the Company have been issued and will be admitted to trading tomorrow, raising £479,662.02 for the Company (before expenses).

The 10,659,156 ordinary shares represent the second of four equal tranches agreed to be subscribed by Sahara Gold Ltd. (formerly Valencia Services Holdings Limited) ("Sahara"), a wholly owned subsidiary of ASCOM Precious Metals Mining S.A.E., pursuant to the subscription agreement entered into by the Company with Sahara on 18 October 2009, for the subscription of an aggregate of 42,636,624 new ordinary shares of £0.01 each (the "Subscription Shares"), representing approximately 9 per cent of the share capital of the Company as enlarged by such subscription, at 4.5 pence per share. Valencia Services Holdings Limited changed its name to Sahara Gold Ltd. on 1 December 2009.

Accordingly, following Admission, Sahara will be interested in 21,318,312 ordinary shares of the Company, representing approximately 4.8 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company as enlarged by this tranche of the subscription.

Following Admission of this second tranche of Subscription Shares, the Company has a total of 447,684,582 ordinary shares in issue.

Enquiries:

GMA Resources Plc	Douglas Perkins	+1 514 806 6788
Merchant John East Securities Limited	Bidhi Bhoma	+44 (0) 20 7628 2200

Notes to Editors:

GMA owns a controlling 52 per cent. stake in ENOR spa ("ENOR"), the Algerian based operating company for the Tirek-Amesmessa project, with the remainder owned by Sonatrach, the Algerian state-owned oil and gas company.

ENOR holds the exploitation authorisation to the Tirek-Amesmessa property, an area of some 1,417 km2, located approximately 450km south west of the city, Tamanrasset, in southern  Algeria. Amesmessa is an open pit heap leach gold mine located in the extreme south of the permit area. The Tirek gold mine is located centrally in the northern third of the exploration permit area, some 60 km north of Amesmessa. Research to date suggests that the Zita Zone, which lies between Tirek and Amesmessa, offers considerable potential for the development of additional prospects amenable to open-pit mining. GMA plans to quickly expand upon resources outside of the major 80km Tirek-Amesmessa fault north/south of the concession. 

GMA's shares are traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: GMA). 

For further information on the Company, please visit: www.gmaresources.co.uk

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