NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST IN TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

A form TR-1 containing the following information has been received by
the Company.

TR-1 notification of major interests in shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares
to which voting rights are attached:

Neptune Minerals Plc

2. Reason for the notification

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:

Christopher Harborne

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):
Christopher Harborne

5.Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed
or reached if different):

9 January 2009, 12 January 2009

6. Date on which issuer notified:

13 January 2009

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:

3% - 14%

8. Notified details:

Holding prior to Friday 9th January = 150,000 shares
Acquired Friday 9th January = 7,698,140 shares
Acquired Monday 12th January = 1,500,000
Resultant total holding = 9,348,140 shares
equivalent to 14.001% of issued shares according to AIM Rule 26
disclosure on Neptune Minerals Website as at Tuesday 13th January
2009

A: Voting rights attached to shares

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Class/type of      |Situation  previous|Resulting  situation   after   the   triggering|
|shares             |to  the  Triggering|transaction[1]                                 |
| if possible  using|transaction        |                                               |
|the ISIN CODE      |-------------------+-----------------------------------------------|
|                   |Number of|Number of|Number of|Number  of  voting|% of voting rights|
|                   |Shares   |Voting   |shares   |rights            |                  |
|                   |         |Rights   |---------+------------------+------------------|
|                   |         |         |Direct   |Direct   |Indirect|Direct  |Indirect |
|-------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------+--------+---------|
|Ordinary Shares    |150,000  |150,000  |9,198,140|9,198,140|nil     |14.00%  |nil      |
|                   |         |         |         |         |        |        |         |
|                   |         |         |         |         |        |        |         |
|                   |         |         |         |         |        |        |         |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+



B: Financial Instruments

+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction              |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Type of    | Expiration | Exercise/    | Number of       | % of   |
| financial  | date       | Conversion   | voting rights   | voting |
| instrument |            | Period/ Date | that may be     | rights |
|            |            |              | acquired if the |        |
|            |            |              | instrument is   |        |
|            |            |              | exercised/      |        |
|            |            |              | converted.      |        |
|------------+------------+--------------+-----------------+--------|
| N/A        | N/A        | N/A          | N/A             | N/A    |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+


Total (A+B)

+----------------------------------------------+
| Number of voting rights | % of voting rights |
|-------------------------+--------------------|
| 9,198,140               | 14.00%             |
+----------------------------------------------+


9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights
and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
N/A

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the Proxy holder:

N/A

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

N/A

12. Date on which proxy holder cease to hold voting rights:

N/A

13. Additional information:

14. Contact Name:

 Christopher Harborne

15: Contact Telephone Number:

+852 8177 7281

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