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RNS Number : 6288E 
Finders Resources Limited 
23 December 2009 
 

For Release: 23rd December 2009 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FINDERS RESOURCES LIMITED (ASX & AIM Code: FND) 
 
 
Purchase of Whim Creek SX-EW Plant Completed 
 
 
Finders Resources Limited ("Finders") is pleased to announce that it has today 
purchased outright the Whim Creek SX-EW plant from a subsidiary of Straits 
Resources Limited ("Straits"). 
 
 
As previously reported, Finders held an option to acquire the Whim Creek plant 
at a price of A$5,000,000 payable in Finders' shares. To complete the 
transaction, Finders has today issued to Straits 12,696,801 fully paid ordinary 
shares at 39.38 cents per share, and paid the A$250,000 option fee to Straits by 
the issue of a further 724,638 shares at 34.5 cents per share. The share issue 
prices are, respectively, the 20 day VWAP (volume weighted average price) from 
today's option exercise date, and the 5 day VWAP from the option Heads of 
Agreement date. The issue of these shares was approved by Finders shareholders 
at the Finders AGM on 24th November 2009. 
 
 
These new shares, when added to Straits' existing shareholding, give Straits a 
10.06% interest in Finders. 
 
 
The Whim Creek SX-EW plant is capable of producing 18,000 tonnes of copper 
cathode per annum and is well suited to Finders' needs at its Wetar Copper 
Project in Indonesia. The recently completed definitive feasibility study for 
the Wetar Copper Project incorporates use of the Whim Creek plant. 
 
 
The Whim Creek plant is currently located at Straits' Whim Creek mine in Western 
Australia. Finders will commence the dismantling of the Whim Creek plant in 
January 2010 - a process that is expected to take around three months to 
complete - and will then prepare for its subsequent relocation to Wetar Island. 
 
 
Finders' Chairman, Russell Fountain, commented that "Aquisition of the Whim 
Creek SX-EW plant represents a major advance towards development of the full 
scale Wetar Copper Project, by providing certainty of both supply and timing for 
key components for the development, as well as significant cost savings compared 
to the purchase of new equipment. We also appreciate the confidence in the 
project shown by Straits Resources in their willingness to accept Finders shares 
in full payment for the transaction." 
 
 
The new capital structure is as follows: 
 
 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             | 
+-------------+ 
|             |Exercise  |   Expiry    |   Number    |  Number    |   Number    | 
|             |  Price   |    Date     | previously  |  Issued    |   now on    | 
|             |          |             |  on Issue   |            |    Issue    | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |Exercise  |   Expiry    |   Number    |  Number    |   Number    | 
|             |  Price   |    Date     | previously  |  Issued    |   now on    | 
|             |          |             |  on Issue   |            |    Issue    | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|   Listed    |          |             | 180,306,570 | 13,421,439 | 193,728,009 | 
|    Fully    |          |             |             |            |             | 
|    Paid     |          |             |             |            |             | 
|  Ordinary   |          |             |             |            |             | 
|   Shares    |          |             |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|  Unlisted   |   AUD    |     13      |     500,000 |          - |     500,000 | 
|  Options    |  68.75   |    June     |             |            |             | 
|             |  cents   |    2010     |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |  AUD 30  |     16      |     500,000 |          - |     500,000 | 
|             |  cents   |    April    |             |            |             | 
|             |          |    2012     |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |  AUD 30  |     16      |     500,000 |          - |     500,000 | 
|             |  cents   |    April    |             |            |             | 
|             |          |    2014     |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |  AUD 30  |    8 May    |   2,000,000 |          - |   2,000,000 | 
|             |  cents   |    2014     |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |  AUD 37  |     23      |     250,000 |          - |     250,000 | 
|             |  cents   |    June     |             |            |             | 
|             |          |    2014     |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |  AUD 37  |     28      |     625,000 |          - |     625,000 | 
|             |  cents   |    June     |             |            |             | 
|             |          |    2014     |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |  AUD 37  |  Earlier    |     500,000 |          - |     500,000 | 
|             |  cents   |     of      |             |            |             | 
|             |          |   expiry    |             |            |             | 
|             |          |    of a     |             |            |             | 
|             |          |consultancy  |             |            |             | 
|             |          |  agreement  |             |            |             | 
|             |          | and 29 Jun  |             |            |             | 
|             |          |     14      |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |  AUD 37  |     29      |     250,000 |            |     250,000 | 
|             |  cents   |   August    |             |            |             | 
|             |          |    2014     |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |  AUD 37  |     14      |   1,000,000 |          - |   1,000,000 | 
|             |  cents   |  September  |             |            |             | 
|             |          |    2014     |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |          |             |   6,125,000 |          - |   6,125,000 | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |          |             |       Value |      Value |       Value | 
|             |          |             |  previously |     issued |      now on | 
|             |          |             |    on issue |            |       issue | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|  Unlisted   |          |             |         AUD |        AUD |         AUD | 
|Convertible  |          |             |             |            |             | 
|    Notes    |          |             |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
|             |  AUD 36  |     19      |   2,323,972 |          - |   2,323,972 | 
|             |  cents   |  January    |             |            |             | 
|             |          |    2012     |             |            |             | 
+-------------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------+-------------+ 
 
 
 
 
For further information please contact 
+------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ 
| Finders Resources Ltd:                                                            | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
| Russell Fountain | Non-Executive Chairman  | +61 2 9211 8299                      | 
+------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ 
| Chris Farmer     | Managing Director       | info@findersresources.com            | 
+------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ 
| Financial PR:                                                                     | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
| Doug Macdonald   | Capital Group (in       | +61 424 255 959                      | 
|                  | Australia)              |                                      | 
+------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ 
| Nick Elwes       | College Hill (in the    | +44 20 7457 2020                     | 
|                  | UK)                     |                                      | 
+------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ 
| RFC Corporate Finance Ltd - Nomad:                                                | 
| Rob Adamson      Managing Director          +61 2 9250 0000                       | 
| Stuart Laing     Executive Director         +61 8 9480 2500                       | 
|                                                                                   | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
| FinnCap - Finders' Broker for the AIM market:                                     | 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
| Mathew Robinson  | Corporate Finance       | +44 (0) 20 7600 1658                 | 
|                  | Director                |                                      | 
+------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ 
| Joe Lunn         | Analyst                 | +44 20 7600 1658                     | 
+------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ 
 
 
Background on Finders Resources 
Finders, listed on AIM and ASX, is the operator of the Wetar Copper Project 
(94% and earning), and the Ojolali Gold-Silver Project (72% with option), both 
located in Indonesia. 
At the Wetar Project, as part of a definitive feasibility study, a demonstration 
SX-EW plant with 5t per day copper cathode capacity was commissioned in February 
2009 and is permitted to process 100,000t of ore from the Kali Kuning deposit. 
The demonstration plant is producing LME Grade A copper cathode. The Company is 
targeting commercial production of 23,000 tonnes per year copper cathode, 
subject to permitting and project funding. 
At the Ojolali Project, Finders controls what it considers to be a major new 
epithermal gold district, and has been undertaking an extensive exploration 
program comprising detailed drilling to establish an initial mining resource, 
supported by extensive surface geophysical and geochemical surveys. Finders 
believe that the Ojolali project has strong potential to generate cash flow 
through open pit CIL/CIP development of the gold resource at the Jambi Oxide 
gold deposit. 
For further information on results previously reported and a full resource 
statement please visit our website www.findersresources.com. 
 
 
Competent Person Statement 
Geological and Mineral Resource information in this announcement and comments 
relating to exploration potential and the project in general are based on 
information compiled by Dr Russell Fountain, who also accepts responsibility for 
the data on which the Mineral Resource is based. Dr Fountain is a Director of 
Finders and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Geoscientists. Dr Fountain 
has sufficient experience that is relevant to the styles of mineralisation and 
types of deposits under consideration and to the activity that he is undertaking 
to qualify as Competent Person as defined in the JORC Code. He consents to the 
inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on his information in the 
form and context in which they appear. 
Disclaimer 
This announcement may or may not contain certain "forward-looking statements". 
All statements, other than statements of historical fact, which address 
activities, events or developments that Finders believes, expects or anticipates 
will or may occur in the future, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking 
statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as 
"seek", "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "estimate", "targeting", "expect", and 
"intend" and statements that an event or result "may", "will", "can", "should", 
"could", or "might" occur or be achieved and other similar expressions. These 
forward-looking statements reflect the current internal projections, 
expectations or beliefs of Finders based on information currently available to 
Finders. Statements in this document that are forward-looking and involve 
numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ 
materially from expected results are based on the Company's current beliefs and 
assumptions regarding a large number of factors affecting its business. Actual 
results may differ materially from expected results. There can be no assurance 
that (i) the Company has correctly measured or identified all of the factors 
affecting its business or the extent of their likely impact, (ii) the publicly 
available information with respect to these factors on which the Company's 
analysis is based is complete or accurate, (iii) the Company's analysis is 
correct or (iv) the Company's strategy, which is based in part on this analysis, 
will be successful. Finders expressly disclaims any obligation to update or 
revise any such forward-looking statements. 
 
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   END 
 
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