Mr. Christian de Saint-Rome reports

STELMINE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF CHRISTIAN DE SAINT-ROME AS INTERIM PRESIDENT AND CEO

Stelmine Canada Ltd. has appointed Christian de Saint-Rome, an experienced mining executive, as interim president and chief executive officer. This position will be filled during Isabelle Proulx's temporary interruption for reasons of a personal nature.

Mr. de Saint-Rome has extensive experience of international mining exploration companies. His appointment will ensure a smooth transition and continuity of Stelmine's strategy. During this period, Mr. de Saint-Rome will maintain his role as CEO of CopperZone Resources Ltd., for a few hours a week.

Mr. de Saint-Rome has over 25 years of experience in start-up management and international capital markets. He is CEO, director and co-founder of CopperZone Resources, a privately owned Canadian company, generating projects in Africa. Over the past 12 years, Rio Tinto, BHP, Vale, First Quantum and MMG have been major partners in CopperZone, as well as three key global institutional investors. He was co-founder and CEO of Kalahari Copper Ltd., an exploration company in Namibia and Botswana, where he was involved in several major project negotiations. Mr. de Saint-Rome was also corporate development adviser to Northern Shield Resources and, finally, corporate adviser and president of Bearclaw Capital, then on the board of Scandinavian Minerals, which was sold for $281-million. As a former Canadian investment adviser, he has taken several courses on the Canadian securities industry and is an alumnus of McGill University.

About Stelmine Canada Ltd.

Stelmine is a junior mining exploration company pioneering a new gold district (Caniapiscau) east of James Bay in the underexplored eastern regions of the Opinaca metasedimentary basin and the Ashuanipi complex. Stelmine has 100-per-cent ownership of 1,815 claims, or 933 square kilometres, in this part of Northern Quebec, highlighted by the Courcy and Mercator projects.

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