Copper Mountain Mining Appoints Jeane Hull to Board of Directors

Ms. Hull has over 35 years of operational leadership and engineering experience, most notably holding the positions of Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Peabody Energy Corporation and Chief Operating Officer for Kennecott Utah Copper Mine, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto plc.  Prior to joining Rio Tinto, she held multiple operational and technical leadership positions with Mobil Oil Corporation in the Mining and Minerals division and has additional environmental engineering and regulatory affairs experience in the public and private sector.  Ms. Hull is currently a director of Interfor Corporation, Epiroc AB and Trevali Mining Corporation.  She also serves on the Advisory Board for South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

Ms. Hull holds a Bachelor of Science (Civil Eng.) from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from Nova Southeastern University.  She is a retired Registered Professional Engineer.

About Copper Mountain Mining Corporation

Copper Mountain’s flagship asset is the 75% owned Copper Mountain Mine located in southern British Columbia near the town of Princeton. The Copper Mountain Mine currently produces approximately 100 million pounds of copper equivalent per year.  Copper Mountain also has the 100% owned development-stage Eva Copper Project, which is expected to add approximately 100 million pounds of copper annually, in Queensland, Australia and an extensive 2,100 km² highly prospective land package in the Mount Isa area. Copper Mountain trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “CMMC” and Australian Stock Exchange under the symbol “C6C”.

Additional information is available on the Company’s web page at www.CuMtn.com.

On behalf of the Board of

COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING CORPORATION
“Gil Clausen”    

Gil Clausen, P.Eng.
President and Chief Executive Officer

For further information, please contact:

Letitia Wong
Executive Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development
Telephone: 604-682-2992
Email: Letitia.Wong@CuMtn.com
Website: www.CuMtn.com

In Europe:
Swiss Resource Capital AG
Jochen Staiger
info@resource-capital.ch
www.resource-capital.ch

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