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Anvil Mining Limited announces Commissioning of HMS Plant for Kinsevere Stage I Mine Development


Montréal, Canada: Anvil Mining Limited (TSX, ASX: AVM) (“Anvil”) is pleased to announce that AMCK Mining sprl (“AMCK”), a Joint Venture company involving Anvil (95%) and Mining Company of Katanga (5%) has commenced the commissioning of the Heavy Media Separation (“HMS”) Plant for the Stage I development of the Kinsevere Mine, located 27km north of Lubumbashi, the provincial capital of the Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”).



The commissioning of the HMS plant began during the first week of June with the result that the first copper concentrates were produced on June 9, 2007. The plant, which is a standard configuration three-stage crushing and screening circuit, scrubber and HMS plant is expected to be fully commissioned before the end of June 2007. The design capacity of the HMS plant is 500,000 tonnes of ore throughput per year, or 1,370 tonnes per day. (Photos of the plant and other aspects of the Kinsevere operations can be viewed by accessing the following link: http://www.anvilmining.com/documents/070611KinsevereStageICommissioningPhotos.pdf). Copper concentrates produced at the HMS plant will contain approximately 25% copper and until the Electric-Arc Furnace (“EAF”) has been completed, the concentrate will be sold locally.



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Stuart McKenzie

Company Secretary

Anvil Mining Limited

Ph: 61 8 6465 2201