30 December 2025

Central Asia Metals PLC

(the 'Group', the 'Company' or 'CAML')

Transaction in Own Shares

Central Asia Metals PLC (AIM:CAML) announces that on 29 December 2025, in accordance with the terms of the share buyback programme announced on 10 September 2025 (the 'Buyback Programme'), it purchased the following number of Ordinary Shares of $0.01 each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares' or 'shares') through Peel Hunt LLP ('Peel Hunt'). The shares purchased will be cancelled and delisted from the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange ('LSE').

Following the purchases and pursuant to the cancellation thereof, the Company will have 179,585,462 Ordinary Shares of $0.01 each in issue, of which 193,325 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury.

The figure of 179,392,137 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for calculating whether they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Aggregated information

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the UK version of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 which is part of UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, the tables below contain detailed information of the individual trades made by Peel Hunt as part of the Buyback Programme.

Individual Transactions on the LSE

The information contained in this update is the responsibility of the CAML Board of Directors and has not been reviewed or reported on by the Group's external auditors.

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Note to editors:

Central Asia Metals, an AIM-quoted UK company based in London, owns 100% of the Kounrad SX-EW copper operation in central Kazakhstan and 100% of the Sasa zinc-lead mine in North Macedonia. The Company also owns an 80% interest in CAML Exploration, a subsidiary formed to progress early-stage exploration opportunities in Kazakhstan, and a 28.4% interest in Aberdeen Minerals Ltd, a privately-owned UK company focused on the exploration and development of base metals opportunities in northeast Scotland.

For further information, please visit www.centralasiametals.com and follow CAML on X at @CamlMetals and on LinkedIn at Central Asia Metals Plc

All references to dollars in this announcement are US dollars unless otherwise stated.