Nyrstar NV

Board/Management Information • Nov 20, 2015

Regulated Information

Nyrstar appoints Christopher Eger as Chief Financial Officer

20 November 2015

Nyrstar NV ("Nyrstar" or the "Company") today announces that Christopher Eger has with immediate effect been appointed Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Nyrstar Management Committee. Chris takes over from Heinz Eigner, who is leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities. Heinz will remain with Nyrstar until the end of December to support an orderly handover to Chris.

Chris has extensive financial, M&A and commercial expertise related to the Metals and Mining sector, gained over a 15-year career in investment banking, metals trading and private equity. Previously he was at Trafigura where he was a senior member of the Mergers and Acquisitions team. Prior to that he was a member of the investment banking group of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he worked with metals and mining companies on debt and equity financing and M&A. He also worked as a Director in the Global Metals and Mining Group at BMO Capital Markets.

Julien De Wilde, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nyrstar, said: "With his extensive, relevant experience, Chris has the right credentials to take up the position of Chief Financial Officer. He fully understands the priorities for the business and the requirements for execution of Nyrstar's balance sheet and performance improvement programme."

"On behalf of the Board, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Heinz for the significant contributions he has made during his time with Nyrstar. As CFO since the foundation of Nyrstar in 2007, he has played an integral role in the Company's development, including acting as interim CEO for a period this year."

Bill Scotting, CEO of Nyrstar, said: "I look forward to working with Chris, whose experience of finance and capital markets brings considerable additional strength to our efforts to improve the performance of Nyrstar.

I would like to personally thank Heinz for his support over the past three months as we have reviewed the business and developed our recently announced balance sheet strengthening measures. I wish him every success for the future."

About Nyrstar

Nyrstar is an integrated mining and metals business, with market leading positions in zinc and lead, and growing positions in other base and precious metals; essential resources that are fuelling the rapid urbanisation and industrialisation of our changing world. Nyrstar has mining, smelting, and other operations located in Europe, the Americas, China and Australia and employs over 5,500 people. Nyrstar is incorporated in Belgium and has its corporate office in Switzerland. Nyrstar is listed on Euronext Brussels under the symbol NYR. For further information please visit the Nyrstar website, www.nyrstar.com

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