Century Mining Grants Stock Options

BLAINE, WA, Dec. 2 /CNW/ - Century Mining Corporation (CMM: TSX-V) announced today that on November 19, 2009 the Company granted a total of 450,000 stock options, of which 350,000 were granted to a new officer of the Company. The stock options are exercisable into common shares of Century at an exercise price of C$0.20 per share for a period of five years. Century's common shares closed at C$0.20 on the TSX Venture Exchange on November 18, 2009 .

Century Mining has 225,987,463 common shares issued and outstanding. Under the terms of the Company's "rolling" Incentive Stock Option Plan, a maximum of 22,598,746 shares are available to be issued pursuant to the exercise of options at this time. Including this grant of 450,000 options, a total of 8,389,750 shares have been reserved for issuance pursuant to outstanding option grants. A further 14,208,996 shares are available for issuance pursuant to future option grants at this time.

About Century Mining Corporation

Century Mining Corporation is a junior gold producer. The Company owns and is working towards the restart of the Lamaque mine in Québec that historically has produced over 9.2 million ounces of gold. In Peru , Century wholly-owned subsidiaries own an 82.6% interest in the San Juan Mine where the Company accounts for 100% of gold production. Total gold production for 2007 and 2008 was 63,124 and 14,252 ounces of gold, respectively.

    
    "Margaret M. Kent"

    Chairman, President & CEO

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