Anaconda Mining options 1,575 hectares adjacent to its Pine Cove gold mine

TORONTO, May 7, 2012 /CNW/ - Anaconda Mining Inc. ("Anaconda" or "the Company") - (TSX: ANX) announced today that, effective May 1, 2012, it entered into a five-year option agreement with Tenacity Gold Mining Company Ltd. ("Tenacity") to acquire a 100% undivided interest in four mining licenses in the Pine Cove to Stog'er tight area near Baie Verte, Newfoundland totaling 63 claims and approximately 1,575 hectares (the "Licenses"). The Licenses are adjacent to the existing mining license where the Pine Cove gold mine currently operates and are further illustrated on the attached map.

President and CEO, Dustin Angelo, stated, "This option agreement is an important step in our growth plans for Pine Cove as it more than triples the size of the Company's land package in the area. The Company is committed to expanding the life and production of Pine Cove through exploration. The Tenacity properties, which are adjacent to our current operations, offer an ideal and logical extension of the area we currently control."

In the near term, the Company does not have any material, mandatory obligations related to the Licenses; however, it is obliged to keep the Licenses in good standing during the term of the option. During the remainder of calendar 2012, the Company is required to make exploration expenditures of approximately $67,000.

ABOUT ANACONDA

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Anaconda is a growth oriented, gold mining and exploration company with a producing asset located on the Baie Verte Peninsula in Newfoundland, Canada called the Pine Cove mine.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

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