Mr. Peter Espig reports

NICOLA MINING ANNOUNCES CHANGE OF OFFICERS

Nicola Mining Inc. has appointed Sam Wong as the company's chief financial officer and Bill Cawker as the company's secretary in place of Warwick Bay, who resigned as the company's chief financial officer and secretary. The company wishes to thank Mr. Bay for his many contributions to the company.

Mr. Wong

Mr. Wong is a certified public accountant with more than 18 years of international experience in the mining and resource sector. He has held senior executive positions in publicly traded mining companies. Mr. Wong's expertise includes financial reporting, corporate risk management, corporate strategy and planning, and investment evaluation. Mr. Wong began his career at Deloitte LLP in Vancouver, where he provided assurance and tax services.

Mr. Cawker

Mr. Cawker is an experience in house specialist that works with primarily assist small cap/micro-cap companies. Mr. Cawker specialized in publicly listed companies in the fields of technology and natural resources for over three decades. Mr. Cawker has worked at leading Canadian financial institutions and been active with numerous public companies.

About Nicola Mining Inc.

Nicola Mining is a junior mining company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange that maintains a 100-per-cent-owned mill and tailings facility, located near Merritt, B.C. It has signed mining and milling profit share agreements with high-grade gold projects. Nicola's fully permitted mill can process both gold and silver mill feed through gravity and flotation processes.

The company owns 100 per cent of the New Craigmont project, a high-grade copper property, which covers an area of 10,084 hectares along the southern end of the Guichon batholith and is adjacent to Teck Resources Ltd.'s Highland Valley copper mine, Canada's largest copper mine. The company also owns 100 per cent of the Treasure Mountain property, consisting of 29 mineral tenures covering 2,178 hectares and a mining lease covering 335 hectares.