BlackRock World Mining Trust plc

Results of Annual General Meeting

BlackRock World Mining Trust plc announces that, at the Annual General Meeting held today, all 15 resolutions were duly passed on a poll.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2015, which has previously been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and is available for inspection at:

www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

The results of the poll were as follows:

                                            For                        Against
Resolution 1:                   99.99%                           0.01%
Resolution 2:                   99.67%                           0.33%
Resolution 3:                   99.58%                           0.42%
Resolution 4:                   99.40%                           0.60%
Resolution 5:                   99.89%                           0.11%
Resolution 6:                   99.88%                           0.12%
Resolution 7:                   99.88%                           0.12%
Resolution 8:                   99.89%                           0.11%
Resolution 9:                   99.88%                           0.12%
Resolution 10:                 99.97%                            0.03%
Resolution 11:                 97.27%                            2.73%
Resolution 12:                 99.86%                            0.14%
Resolution 13:                 99.75%                            0.25%
Resolution 14:                 99.88%                            0.12%
Resolution 15:                 99.93%                            0.07%


28 April 2016