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12 December 2017

Rainbow Rare Earths Limited
("Rainbow" or the "Company")

Result of Oversubscribed Placing

Further to the announcement made earlier today, Rainbow is pleased to announce a conditional placing (the "Placing") of 20,000,000 new ordinary shares (the "Placing Shares") to raise £2.8 million (before expenses) with new and existing shareholders at an Issue Price of 14 pence per Placing Share (the "Placing Price"). The Placing Price represents a discount of approximately 8 per cent. to the closing middle market price of 15.25 pence per Existing Ordinary Share on 11 December 2017, the last business day before the announcement of the Placing.

Application will be made for the Placing Shares to be admitted to the Official List and to trading with effect from 19 December 2017.

Martin Eales, Chief Executive of Rainbow, said:

"We are delighted with the strong support that we have received for this fundraising exercise, and we are pleased to welcome a number of new institutional shareholders to the register.  2017 has been a transformational year for us as we delivered on our overarching objective achieving first production and sales of rare earth concentrate from Gakara within 11 months.  Looking now to 2018, our focus will increasingly include the development of new areas of mineralisation, and the identification of future sources of ore to ensure we have a long-term, sustainable mine producing high grade concentrate from multiple open pit operations.  We have already begun this process, reporting significant exploration upside at Gakara through a recently completed airborne magnetic survey, and utilising these new funds, we will be able to implement a drilling campaign on these exciting anomalies in addition to accelerating our productions plans."

Total voting rights

Following the issue of the Placing Shares the Company will have 174,626,472 Ordinary Shares in issue.

The above figure of 174,626,472 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Capitalised terms used in this Announcement shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Company's announcement this morning.

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