06 June 2017

Avocet Mining PLC, ("Avocet" or "the Company"), the West African 
focused gold mining and exploration company, has today published its 
Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016 on 
its website - www.avocetmining.com 
 
The Annual Report and Accounts will also be mailed to those 
shareholders who have elected to receive it in hard copy.
The Company has requested the restoration of trading of its shares, 
which it expects shortly.

The Company also announces that the Annual General Meeting of 
Shareholders ("AGM") will be held at 3pm on 30 June 2017 at the 
offices of Fieldfisher LLP, Riverbank House, 2 Swan Lane, London 
EC4R 3TT. A Notice of Meeting for the AGM and related forms of proxy 
will also be sent to shareholders.

Latest time and date for receipt  of a Form of Proxy 	3.00 p.m. on 
28 June 2017
Latest time and date for receipt  of a CREST proxy instruction 	3.00 
p.m. on 28 June 2017
Time of meeting 3.00 p.m. on 30 June 2017

In compliance with LR9.6.1, a  copy the Notice of AGM will  shortly  
be  available  for  inspection  at  the  Financial  Conduct  
Authority's  National  Storage  Mechanism  website 
http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do and  will  also  be available on the 
Company's website at www.avocetmining.com








FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT
Avocet Mining PLC	 	
Boudewijn Wentink, CEO
Yolanda Bolleurs, CFO
+44 20 3709 2570

Blytheweigh
Financial PR
Tim Blythe
Camilla Horsfall
Megan Ray
+44 207 138 3204

J.P. Morgan Cazenove
Corporate Broker
Michael Wentworth-Stanley
+44 20 7742 4000



NOTES TO EDITORS

Avocet Mining PLC ("Avocet" or the "Company") is an unhedged gold 
mining and exploration company listed on the London Stock Exchange 
(ticker: AVM.L) and the Oslo Børs (ticker: AVM.OL). The Company's 
principal activities are gold mining and exploration in West Africa.
In Burkina Faso the Company owns 90 per cent of the Inata Gold Mine. 
The Inata Gold Mine poured its first gold in December 2009 and 
produced 72,485 ounces of gold in 2016. Other assets in Burkina Faso 
include five exploration permits surrounding the Inata Gold Mine in 
the broader Bélahouro region. The most advanced of these projects is 
Souma, some 20 kilometers from the Inata Gold Mine.
The Company also holds an interest in the Tri-K project in Guinea. 
On 22 May 2017, the Company announced that it had completed its 
agreement to dispose of 40 per cent of the project to Managem, a 
Moroccan group listed on the Casablanca stock exchange, which will 
increase upon completion of a bankable feasibility study for a CIL 
plant at the site, the incurring of expenditures of at least US$10 
million, and the enlarging of the ore reserve, to 70 per cent (in 
the event of an increase of the reserve to 1 million ounce or more) 
or 60 per cent (if less than 1 million ounces).