Fortunate Sun Mining Provides Drilling Update on Golconda Project

VANCOUVER, June 18, 2012 - Fortunate Sun Mining Company Ltd. ("Fortunate Sun" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:FSM) is pleased to announce that the Company has completed a diamond drilling program on its Golconda gold project located in Southern Sonora State, Mexico. Fortunate Sun may earn a 100% interest in Golconda from Minera Coplau, S.A. de C.V. by spending $2,500,000 in exploration and making cash and share payments to Minera Coplau over a four year period.

A total of 731 metres of diamond drilling was completed in 9 holes of HQ diameter. These holes were designed to serve as due diligence drilling to confirm historical intercepts as well as test various depths of a gold epithermal vein system. Drilling tested and intersected several quartz veining and stock-work sections along an approximate 130 metre strike length and to a vertical depth down to approximately 75 metres. Several drill holes encountered multiple zones of quartz-pyrite mineralization. The company is currently in the process of logging and submitting samples to the assay prep lab in Hermosillo.

"This initial drill program will provide significant benefit to our current understanding of the mineralization of the system and structural interpretation of the property more specifically the Golconda vein," said Kristian Whitehead, VP Exploration.

Assay results from these core holes will be reported once received and interpreted by the Company.


On behalf of the Board of Directors

Reg Advocaat
President and CEO



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Fortunate Sun Mining Company Ltd.
Reg Advocaat, President & CEO
778-945-2139
604-629-0923 (FAX)
reg@fortunatesunmining.com
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