Capstone Mining Corp.

Vancouver, British Columbia - Capstone Mining Corp. ("Capstone") (TSX: CS) today announced that management will present at the following investor conferences:
 

• CIBC 16th Annual Institutional Investor Conference held in Whistler, British Columbia. Darren Pylot, President and CEO will be speaking on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 2:10 p.m. ET.
• Fourth Annual TD Securities Mining Conference held in Toronto, Ontario. Darren Pylot, President and CEO will be speaking on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 1:35 p.m. ET.

The presentations will be available at: http://capstonemining.com/s/Presentation.asp and any associated webcasts will be available at: http://capstonemining.com/s/Events-Calendar.asp.

About Capstone Mining Corp.

Capstone Mining Corp. is a Canadian base metals mining company, preferentially focused on copper, with two producing copper mines, the Cozamin copper-silver-zinc-lead mine located in Zacatecas State, Mexico and the Minto copper-gold-silver mine in Yukon, Canada. In addition, Capstone has two development projects, the large scale 70% owned Santo Domingo copper-iron-gold project in Chile in partnership with Korea Resources Corporation and the 100% owned Kutcho copper-zinc-gold-silver project in British Columbia, as well as exploration at properties in Canada, Chile, Mexico and Australia. Using its cash flow and strong balance sheet as a springboard, Capstone aims to grow organically through continued mineral resource and reserve expansions, exploration, and through acquisitions in politically stable, mining-friendly regions. Additional information is available at www.capstonemining.com.

For further information please contact:

Cindy Burnett, VP, Investor Relations and Communications
604-637-8157