Eastern Platinum Limited: AIM Block Admission Return

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire - July 4, 2012) - Eastern Platinum Limited (the "Company") (TSX:ELR) (AIM:ELR) (JSE:EPS) -

The Company announces the block admission return for the period from 1 January 2012 to 30 June 2012.

                            Common
Name of         Common       share   Common      Common Exercise      Common
 Scheme         shares    options/   shares      shares    price      shares
              issuable    warrants   issued    expired/     CAD$    issuable
          under scheme      issued   during   cancelled         under scheme
               as at 1  during the      the  during the             as at 30
          January 2012      period   period      period                June
                                                                        2012

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Director
 and
 Employee                                                $0.32
 Stock      59,855,503   7,265,000        0  21,084,167  $0.60    46,036,336
 Option                                                  $1.55
 Incentive                                               $1.82
 Plan                                                    $2.31

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            59,855,503   7,265,000        0  21,084,167           46,036,336

As at the date of this announcement, the Company has 928,187,807 common shares of no par value in issue.

As at 31 December 2011, the Company had an issued share capital of 928,187,807 common shares of no par value, none of which are held in treasury. As at 14 July 2006, the date of the Company's re-admission to AIM, the Company had 513,228,821 common shares of no par value admitted to trading on AIM.



FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Eastern Platinum Limited
Caroline Cook
+1 (604) 689-9663
info@eastplats.com
www.eastplats.com

OR

AIM NOMAD: Canaccord Genuity Limited, London
Rob Collins
+44 (0) 207 7523 8000

OR

JSE SPONSOR: PSG Capital (Pty) Limited
Johan Fourie
+27 21 887 9602