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Major Shareholding Notification • Sep 26, 2025

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Focus Xplore PLC

26 September 2025

26 September 2025

Focus Xplore PLC

('Focus Xplore' or the ' Company ')

Notification of relevant change to significant shareholder

Focus Xplore PLC (AIM: FOX), the strategic energy and critical minerals exploration and development company, announces it has received notification that on 24 September 2025 Armstrong Investments Limited had crossed a threshold for notification of a relevant change (as defined by the AIM Rules for Companies). The Company has received the following TR-1 notification, a copy of which is set out below.

TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings

1. Issuer Details

ISIN

GB00BSNBL022

Issuer Name

FOCUS XPLORE PLC

UK or Non-UK Issuer

UK

2. Reason for Notification

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation

Name

First Equity Limited

City of registered office (if applicable)

London

Country of registered office (if applicable)

United Kingdom

Name	City of registered office	Country of registered office
Estate of William Black
Armstrong Investments Limited	Douglas	Isle of Man

4. Details of the shareholder

Name	City of registered office	Country of registered office
Nortrust Nominees Limited	London	United Kingdom

5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached

24-Sep-2025

6. Date on which Issuer notified

26-Sep-2025

7. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification obligation

	% of voting rights attached to shares (total of 8.A)	% of voting rights through financial instruments (total of 8.B 1 + 8.B 2)	Total of both in % (8.A + 8.B)	Total number of voting rights held in issuer
Resulting situation on the date on which threshold was crossed or reached	5.728334	0.000000	5.728334	130000000
Position of previous notification (if applicable)	6.728206	0.000000	6.728206

8. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on which the threshold was crossed or reached

8A. Voting rights attached to shares

Class/Type of shares ISIN code(if possible)	Number of direct voting rights (DTR5.1)	Number of indirect voting rights (DTR5.2.1)	% of direct voting rights (DTR5.1)	% of indirect voting rights (DTR5.2.1)
GB00BSNBL022	130000000	0	5.728334	0.000000
Sub Total 8.A	130000000		5.728334%

8B1. Financial Instruments according to (DTR5.3.1R.(1) (a))

Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/conversion period	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted	% of voting rights
Sub Total 8.B1

8B2. Financial Instruments with similar economic effect according to (DTR5.3.1R.(1) (b))

Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/conversion period	Physical or cash settlement	Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
Sub Total 8.B2

9. Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation

2. Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entities (please add additional rows as necessary)

Ultimate controlling person	Name of controlled undertaking	% of voting rights if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold	% of voting rights through financial instruments if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold	Total of both if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold
Estate of William Black	First Equity Limited as Investment Manager of Armstrong Inv Limited	5.728334		5.728334%
Estate of William Black	Armstrong Investments Limited

10. In case of proxy voting

Name of the proxy holder

The number and % of voting rights held

The date until which the voting rights will be held

11. Additional Information

NOMAD Advised shares in issue figure as 2,269,420,573 slightly changing our holding percentage.

12. Date of Completion

26-Sep-2025

13. Place Of Completion

London

Enquiries:

Patrick Cullen	[email protected]	Focus Xplore PLC	Chief Executive Officer
James Biddle Roland Cornish	+44 (0) 207 628 3396	Beaumont Cornish Limited	Nominated Adviser
Jason Robertson	+44 (0) 207 374 2212	First Equity Limited	Corporate Broker
Corporate Website: www.focusXplore.com		LinkedIn: Focus Xplore PLC	X: @focusXplore

Beaumont Cornish Limited ("Beaumont Cornish") is the Company's Nominated Adviser and is authorised and regulated by the FCA. Beaumont Cornish's responsibilities as the Company's Nominated Adviser, including a responsibility to advise and guide the Company on its responsibilities under the AIM Rules for Companies and AIM Rules for Nominated Advisers, are owed solely to the London Stock Exchange. Beaumont Cornish is not acting for and will not be responsible to any other persons for providing protections afforded to customers of Beaumont Cornish nor for advising them in relation to the proposed arrangements described in this announcement or any matter referred to in it.

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