Melrose Resources - Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number:1333R
Melrose Resources PLC
31 March 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 31 March 2008

Melrose Resources plc ("the Company")

Director/PDMR shareholding

Melrose Resources plc (LSE:MRS) announces that on 28 March 2008 it received
notification from Appleby Trust (Jersey) Limited (the 'Trustee') in its capacity
as trustee of the Melrose Resources plc Employee Benefit Trust (the 'Trust')
that on 28 March 2008 the Trustee purchased 100,000 ordinary shares of 10p each
in the Company at a price of 293.8 pence per share. This represents the entire
holding of the Trust in the share capital of the Company and equates to
0.09% of the current issued share capital of the Company.

The Trust was established to facilitate the operation of the Melrose Resources
plc Performance Share Plan (the 'Plan') and it is intended that the shares purchased
by the Trust will be used to satisfy awards under the Plan.

In accordance with DTR 3.1.4 of the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the
undernoted Executive Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
("PDMRs") of the Company have an interest in the shares acquired by the Trustee as
they are potential beneficiaries of the Trust.

For further information please contact:

Melrose Resources plc

Alasdair Robinson, Company Secretary 0131 221 3360

Buchanan Communications Limited

Ben Willey/Ben Romney 0207 466 5000

or visit www.melroseresources.com

Undernote:

Directors

Robert F M Adair

David H Thomas

J Munro M Sutherland

David F Archer

PDMRs

Michael J Corjay

Dorieta H Georgieva-Angelova

Alasdair N Robinson

Diane M V Fraser

John D A Naismith

Stuart N Pask

Richard J W Bunt

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