New Hana Copper Mining Ltd. Terminates Its Option on the Musina Project

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/26/13 -- New Hana Copper Mining Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: HML) ("HML" or "New Hana") announces that in accordance with terms and conditions in Section 3.3 of the First Amending Agreement with BSC Resources Ltd., dated January 16, 2013, the Company has given written notice of its intention to terminate its option with BSC Resources Ltd., effective February 25, 2013. The original agreement, dated July 17, 2012 had granted New Hana an option to acquire up to a 100% interest in the Musina Copper Project located in Northeast South Africa.


ABOUT NEW HANA:

New Hana Copper Mining Ltd. has an exploration stage project, "The Kuke Project", located in the center of the Kalahari Copper belt in Northwestern Botswana adjacent to and along strike to Hana Mining's ("Hana") Ghanzi Copper-Silver Project.


FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENT:

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