Santana Minerals Ltd (“SMI”) - Trading Halt of Securities

NZX Limited
Level 2, NZX Centre
11 Cable Street
PO Box 2959
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
Tel +64 4 472 7599

www.nzx.com

Memorandum

To:
Market Participants
From:
NZX Product Operations
Date:
Monday, 16 February 2026
Subject
: Santana Minerals Limited (“SMI”) – Trading Halt of Securities


Message
:

NZ RegCo advises that, at the request of Santan Minerals Limited (“SMI”), it has placed a
trading halt on SMI ordinary shares. The trading halt was placed at pre-market open today.
Attached is the trading halt application, for further information.
Please contact NZX Product Operations on +64 4 496 2853 or productoperations@nzx.com
with any queries.

ENDS

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16 February 2026

ASX Limited
Level 40, Central Park
152-158 St Georges Terrace
Perth WA 6000

By email: tradinghaltsperth@asx.com.au
NZ RegCo
Level 2, NZX Centre
11 Cable Street
Wellington 6011 New Zealand

By email: issuer@nzregco.com

Request for Trading Halt


Santana Minerals Ltd (ASX/NZX: SMI) (Santana) hereby requests that a halt be applied to the trading
of its fully paid ordinary shares with effect prior to the commencement of trading today, Monday 16
February 2026.
In accordance with ASX Listing Rule 17.1 and NZX Listing Rule 9.9.1(a), Santana:
(a) requests the trading halt for the purposes of considering and executing a proposed capital
raising;
(b) requests that the trading halt remain in place until the earlier of:
(1) such time as Santana makes an announcement to the market in relation to the
capital raising; or
(2) the commencement of trading on Wednesday 18 February 2026;
(c) expects that the trading halt will be ended by the announcement referred to in paragraph
(b)(1) being made to the ASX and NZX; and
(d) is not aware of any reason why the trading halt should not be granted or of any other
information necessary to inform the market about the trading halt.
This announcement has been approved for release by the Board of Directors.
Craig McPherson
Company Secretary
Santana Minerals Limited
+ 61 7 3221 7501

ANNOUNCEMENT
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