Happy New Year To All

Hope everyone has a very happy and healthy New Year and CMM finally gets revalued.

Cheers R

$4M PP is Closed

BLAINE, WASHINGTON--(Marketwire - Dec. 23, 2010) -



NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO THE UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES


Century Mining Corporation ("Century" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:CMM) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced private placement of units of the Company ("Units"). The Company issued an aggregate of 10,324,600 Units at a price of C$0.39 per Unit for gross proceeds of C$4,026,594. Each Unit consisted of one common share and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant is exercisable for one common share at an exercise price of C$0.60 per share for a period of 18 months from the closing date. The placement was completed by a syndicate of agents led by Haywood Securities Inc. and including Byron Capital Markets and Union Securities Ltd. (collectively, the "Agents").


The Company paid a cash commission of 6.5% of the gross proceeds and issued compensation options to the Agents equal to 6.5% of the Units sold, entitling the Agents to purchase Units at an exercise price of C$0.39 per Unit for a period of 18 months from the closing date.


All securities issued in connection with the private placement are subject to a four-month plus one day hold period from the date of issuance.


The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the private placement to advance the Lamaque gold mine in Val d'Or, Quebec through the final commissioning stages of the operation.


This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities in the United States. The securities have not been registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold within the United States, absent such registration or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements.



About Century Mining Corporation



Century Mining Corporation is a Canadian junior gold producer and holds strategic land positions in Canada, the United States and Peru. The Company's strategy is to grow to an intermediate gold producer through existing mine expansions and acquisitions of other strategic and synergistic gold opportunities.


On behalf of Century Mining Corporation,




"Keith Hulley"




Interim CEO




Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Information





This press release contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws including with respect to the intended use of proceeds raised in the private placement. We use words such as "may", "will", "should", "anticipate", "plan", "expect", "believe", "estimate" and similar terminology to identify forward-looking statements and forward-looking information. Such statements and information are based on assumptions, estimates, opinions and analysis made by management in light of its experience, current conditions and its expectations of future developments as well as other factors which it believes to be reasonable and relevant. Forward-looking statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements and information and accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on such statements and information. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to vary include but are not limited to the speculative nature of mineral exploration and development, including the uncertainty of reserve and resource estimates; operational and technical difficulties; the availability to the Company of suitable financing alternatives; fluctuations in gold and other commodity prices; changes to and compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including environmental laws and obtaining requisite permits; political, economic and other risks arising from our South American activities; fluctuations in foreign exchange rates; as well as other risks and uncertainties which are more fully described in our annual and quarterly Management's Discussion and Analysis included in this Annual Report, in our Annual Information Form and in other filings made by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission and with Canadian securities regulatory authorities and available at www.sedar.com.




While the Company believes that the expectations expressed by such forward-looking statements and forward-looking information and the assumptions, estimates, opinions and analysis underlying such expectations are reasonable, there can be no assurance that they will prove to be correct. In evaluating forward-looking statements and information, readers should carefully consider the various factors which could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements and forward-looking information.





FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Peter A. Ball
Century Mining Corporation
Vice President Investor Relations
(360) 332-4653 or Toll Free: (877) 284-6535
(360) 332-4652 (FAX)
pball@centurymining.com
www.centurymining.com

PP

Delayed a few days.....Nothing Material:)

SP in 2011

As a recent shareholder and follower of CMM I very much enjoy most of the chat that I read and find it both entertaining and sometimes informative. As a C.A. I have a particular leaning towards the financial side of things, as opposed to the engineering/mining areas. I thought I would add my pennies worth on the S.P. of C.M.M. looking forward to 2011.

Firstly lets take off the table the macro items such as a major retreat or growth spurt in the markets in general, large changes in the US, Canadian dollar exchange rate etc etc. Assuming the big picture items, which can and do effect the share prices of all stocks albeit sometimes differently, remain the same we also need to assume that grades and recovery rates too are not negatively effected by actual rates. Having stated some caveats I do believe that some writers are in danger of doing exactly what management has frequently been accused of in recent months and that is of being “over optimistic”. By setting the bar too high and creating the expectancy regarding the financials for 2011 i.e. the short term outlook we are not doing ourselves any favors.

Let’s look at another set of forecasts and assumptions. If we assume; the Lamaque revenues start in the second quarter, say 52,500 ozs for the remainder of the year, and Sao Juan 20,000 ozs and gold prices average $1,250 in 2011 gross revenues would come in at $90.6m. I’m not sure I understand fully the impacts of the Deutschbank arrangement but believe that CMM gets $561 plus US$88 revenue for each ounce and is obliged to deliver 8004 ounces in 2011. If this is correct then gross revenues would have to be adjusted downwards by $4.8m bringing them down to $85.8. Assuming a cost per ounce at Lamaque at say $700 for 2011 and $600 for Sao Juan then the gross profit would be $28.875m for Lamaque and $13m for Sao Juan before the Deutschbank adjustment.

The next big unknown is what will the corporate admin, deprecation and other overhead costs be. I note they jumped considerably in this last quarter. I’ve assumed $4 million a quarter as depreciation must be considerably higher after all the equipment purchases and improvements to the Lamaque mine. Take this $16 million off the gross profit and you have a pretax profit of $21.1m. Without any income tax on this profit, since I have no idea what any accumulated brought forward losses may be, and assuming warrants and options are all exercised based on 443m shares the FDEPS comes out at

4.8 cents a share or half of BullionBull’s forecast.

One should also bear in mind that if Lamaque’s production is only treated as revenue from the second quarter that we may not have a good idea of how things are shaping up until the second quarter’s numbers are released around August 2011.

Does anyone have a good hold on a p/e ratio of a company(s) that is a year or two ahead of C.M.M.?

This is just one more perspective which hopefully adds something to the communal pot.

Hopefully my lesser expectations will be exceeded and I too will not be disappointed. 2012 in turn will produce undoubtedly even better EPS. I am certainly looking at a 2 year horizon at this stage which I will modify as things unfold. My advice is that we should all treat ourselves to a dose of patience this Christmas. Oh and a very Happy one to all. Off to the beach now…

Fair Shareprice Valuation for 2011

What does everyone think a fair shareprice valuation for 2011 would be?

Here's my thoughts:

Assuming for 2011 at Lamaque we are able to get good quality grades as well as solid tonnage, a conservative estimate of total ounces (barring no major setbacks or delays) produced out of Lamaque would be 70,000 oz. This of course is less then the roughly 84,000 oz Century is planning for, but like I said its a conservative estimate based on past performance. For the sake of this exercise, lets assume commercial production is declared at the end of Q1 2011. This gives us 3 full quarters of recognized revenue from Lamaque.

We can expect higher costs out of Lamaque in the beginning, so lets also say Century is able to realize an average net profit per ounce of $450 ($1400 PoG - $950 cost per ounce). Thus, $450 x 52,500 = $23,625,000 in profit from Lamaque.

With San Juan, we can reasonably conclude that it will continue to be its reliable self and generate a minimum of 20,000 oz for the year. Since costs out of San Juan are lower, $658 per ounce in Q3 2010, lets assume they can get costs a bit down to $650 for 2011 (which is conservative considering they're projected to be $550-$570 over the LOM). Thus, 20,000 oz x $750 profit per ounce = $15,000,000 profit from San Juan.

Thus, the total profit from Lamaque and San Juan combined could be $38,625,000 based on the above assumptions. This equates to $0.10 per share fully diluted.

At a conservative PE ratio of 10, this comes out to a projected shareprice of $1.00, a solid increase from our current levels.

It's all up to management at this point.

Adrian McNutt (Chief Operating Officer) - exercised CMM options (25K)

25,000 options @ $.35 exercise price

Transaction/exercise date: Nov. 30`10

SEDAR file date: Dec. 3`10

Option expire date: Nov. 30`10

Canadian miners predict 2011 to be year of the deal

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/canadian-miners-predict-2011-to-be-year-of-the-deal/article1819713/

Sets up very nicely with CMM's proposed ramp up. hhhhmmmm??!!!??

Glorieux

I briefly glanced at your note posted on Agoracom, about Peter Ball having a good presentation in the UK.

I have a couple of comments:

1) I briefly noticed someone with a Barclays account buying Century shares at $.43 today. Barclays is not a typical CMM buyer. Barclays is a UK bank. Maybe this was one of the anticipated UK buyers.

2) I have always known that the UK is a severely underserviced market in the gold space. There are only a handful of gold mining companies listed on the London and AIM stock exchanges. This is only a tiny fraction compared to the Toronto exchanges, with its hundreds of listed gold companies.

Also, London plays a key role (a doorway in a sense) for Russians, other europeans and middle east investors looking to invest in international gold mining producers. This is also why many of the major Russian mining companies are listed in London.

London itself has loads of institutional capital to invest.

Century would be wise to keep aggressive presence in the London market. Century should eventually look into listing on the AIM (and once big enough, try applying to the London Exchange). There are hardly any mid-tier and junior gold producers listed on the AIM and the London Exchange. There is an extremely underservice space in that market that matches up exactly what Century Mining has to offer.

Century Closes $2.5 Million Flow-Through Private Placement

BLAINE, WASHINGTON--(Marketwire - Dec. 1, 2010) - Century Mining Corporation ("Century" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:CMM - News) announced today that it has closed a private placement financing of 5,555,555 flow-through units (the "Flow-Through Units") of the Company, at a price of $0.45 per Unit, for gross proceeds of $2,500,000. This financing was originally announced by the Company on November 9, 2010. Each Flow-Through Unit consisted of one common share issued on a flow-through basis and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant is exercisable for one common share at $0.60 for 18 months from closing.

The proceeds of the private placement of Flow-Through Units will be used for the diamond drill program at the Bedard Dyke zone and exploration drilling of other priority targets at or in the vicinity of the Lamaque mine.

The Company paid finder's fees of $175,000 and issued 277,778 compensation warrants. Each Compensation Warrant is exercisable for one common share at $0.45 for 18 months from closing. All securities issued under this private placement will be subject to a four-month hold period.

About Century Mining Corporation

Century Mining Corporation is a Canadian junior gold producer and holds strategic land positions in Canada, the United States and Peru. The consolidated production outlook for the Company is approximately 36,000 to 40,000 ounces in 2010, 105,000 ounces in 2011, and 120,000 in 2012. The Company's strategy is to grow to an intermediate gold producer through existing mine expansions and acquisitions of other strategic and synergistic gold opportunities.

Last Day For Anonymous Posts

Effective December 1, 2010, you must be a Blog Member to post or to comment on a post on this blog.  To request membership, send me an email at centurycarib@gmail.com.

Since November 9 when the PP's were announced, Scotia was the biggest seller with more than 3 million shares sold.  Today they sold 1,000 shares.  TD sold more than 500k shares today.

In that same period, a couple of new players began to buy Century shares.  Buying through Instinet consisted of over 600,000 shares and Byron bought 269,500 shares.  The buying by Byron was encouraging because Byron Capital was named as one of the leading agents for the $5 million PP, yet a Byron client was buying on the open market.

There was a bit of selling by Wolverton (208k) which I suspect was Peggy and Ross Burns as they also purchased small amounts of Tamerlane stock.  I suspect PK also exercised some warrants at the same time as Sheridan, but sold stock to pay for them.

I've also added a new poll to gauge how confident blog visitors are that Century will finally start meeting production forecasts.

Edit:  I forgot to specify "at Lamaque" for the poll, so if you voted before, you lost that vote and can vote again.

TSX-V accepts the $2.5M FT ($.45) financing - 5 placees

CENTURY MINING CORPORATION ("CMM")
BULLETIN TYPE: Private Placement-Non-Brokered
BULLETIN DATE: November 30, 2010
TSX Venture Tier 2 Company

TSX Venture Exchange has accepted for filing documentation with respect toa Non-Brokered Private Placement announced November 9, 2010:

Number of Shares: 5,555,555 flow through shares

Purchase Price: $0.45 per share

Warrants: 2,777,778 share purchase warrants to purchase 2,777,778 shares

Warrant Exercise Price: $0.60 for an 18 month period

Number of Placees: 5 placees

Finder's Fee: Oberon Capital Corporation receives $175,000 and 277,778 non-transferable compensation warrants, each exercisable for one share at a price of $0.45 for an 18 month period.

Pursuant to Corporate Finance Policy 4.1, Section 1.11(d), the Company mustissue a news release announcing the closing of the private placement andsetting out the expiry dates of the hold period(s). The Company must alsoissue a news release if the private placement does not close promptly. Notethat in certain circumstances the Exchange may later extend the expiry dateof the warrants, if they are less than the maximum permitted term.)

William Sheridan (Secretary, Director) - exercised CMM options (50K)

50,000 options @ $.35 exercised price

Transaction/exercised date: Nov. 25`10

SEDAR Filed date: Nov. 29`10

Option expire date: Nov. 30`10

Of note, the exercise price was only about $.03 lower than the market price on the exercise date, yet he went ahead with exercising the options anyway. Additionally, throughout the years I have been an investor with Century Mining, I do not recall Mr. Sheridan purchasing any Century shares either via the exercise of options or via the open market. It`s not clear about the level of relevance of this transaction. Nonetheless, it is good to see Mr. Sheridan (a key Senior Officer and Director of the company) investing his own personal money in the company at this very important period / turning point in time.

Something I wanted to put out there.......

You know, I can see people being upset that we have not hit the original targets which is in all honesty quite fair in my opinion. From what I can see, many people that use the online investment community whether it be stockigloo, Stockhouse, or agoracom need to understand that they are dealing with venture capital here. When we seen the news about the results we were obviously a little upset but as venture capital we knew in advance that it could very well happen. Just by looking at the numbers that they had given us we could have made an estimate of the amounts of AU that would have been produced. I never post these figures in advance as it can sometimes cause people to change their own goals and as we have seen leads to people making predictions that are not always feasible under certain conditions. I just see so many people going into a panic over the recent stock decline. I have received several private msg’s from some people that use these sites stating that they were upset with the figures. Now this might seem like I am being a little harsh here but the reality behind venture capital is that if you can’t be willing to wait things like this out buy stocks like Johnson & Johnson or RBC...etc. These kinds of delays are to be expected folks. We knew the equipment was not in Quebec yet, we knew that numbers were low. Just with that info we should have known that we would not have hit our target. It’s like a tell people in practice, when you buy venture capital you have to be ready for three things: Loose it all, Make a lot, or play the waiting game. Whenever someone wants to buy a penny stock I make sure that the individual is comfortable with loosing the entire investment as it happens often in this game. Not saying it will happen here since we have all the funding we need and we have some very deep pockets backing us up but the risk is always there. At the end of the day if you are not happy with the risk around venture don’t buy into it. We have people that are consistently complaining about losing money and that things are moving to slow. If there are others in his shoes I would suggest you consider less volatile investments in the future as this type of capital is obviously not for you. When you buy an investment make sure it matches the risk levels in which you are willing to take. If you can’t sleep at night your obviously in an investment that has a beta that is way too high for your likings. As some of you here know I do have control over a significant number of shares and I have not sold any at this point in time. In the past few weeks I have actually upped the position in CMM by about 18% which is slightly significant. Over all the future looks bright for this junior mining Co and it is our largest play at this point in time. In the future assuming we can stay under.45 I will accumulate shares on a weekly basis here and there. For those who may be in at higher prices I say stay the course as the future looks very promising and for those who already have positions maybe buy a little more! With that being said I wish you all the best of luck on this stock. I have some projections on this stock that me and a finance group put together but I am still wearing as to whether I will make it public or not. In the mean time take care and best of luck to all investors.

Depth 3:24

Time	#	Size	Bid
13:18	1	28000	0.385
07:39	8	150219	0.38
11/19	4	35000	0.375
11/16	8	53550	0.37
11/08	2	4500	0.36
11/18	1	3000	0.355
11/16	5	235340	0.35
11/18	1	20000	0.345
11/18	3	34500	0.34
08:44	4	21000	0.33
11/16	1	20000	0.305
11/08	5	40000	0.30
11:32	1	3000	0.29
10/28	1	5000	0.20
11/16	1	3500	0.065

Ask	Size	#	Time
0.39	169400	6	11/19
0.395	261000	3	11/18
0.40	170000	15	11/18
0.41	54000	7	11/17
0.42	6333	2	09:02
0.435	12500	2	11/16
0.44	95500	6	11/16
0.445	14000	1	11/12
0.45	27000	5	11/09
0.46	41500	5	11/09
0.465	2000	1	11/10
0.47	97000	4	11/02
0.475	91000	4	11/05
0.48	188500	6	11/02
0.485	92000	2	11/11
0.49	91300	5	11/04
0.50	80250	6	09/29
0.51	32500	3	11/04
0.52	95000	1	10/25
0.53	2000	1	11/11
0.54	19000	4	11/01
0.55	2000	1	11/01
0.56	11500	2	11/01
0.57	2000	1	11/16
0.58	46000	2	11/01
0.59	66500	2	10/13
0.60	25056	5	11/09
0.62	45000	1	11/15
0.64	74	1	11/10
0.65	15000	1	10/26

What I would like to see from Century now

Chillby, as you probably already know, I agree 100% with your assessment. I agree we have turned the corner and are now in the most exciting phase of our development.

One thing I would like to see from here on out that I will talk to Peter about is a positive press release every 2 weeks or so from the company outlining the progress that is being made since we have officially passed the turning point. I've mentioned this before as have others but I feel this is critical at this point more than ever. Obviously, we need to execute first and foremost, but once we execute, we need to communicate our success.

For example, they should continuously make a list of positive developments that will take place over the next few months and break them down into pieces. They should then think carefully about how best to market these developments and make each a separate press release. While it is convenient to combine developments in a single release that covers many items, it dilutes their impact.

Century has to realize their current investor base is extremely light on institutions and heavy in retail investors and retail investors want to feel in touch with what is going on with the company and get very skittish when they don't hear anything for a long period of time.

Here are some examples of what i would like to see from a promotions standpoint in regards to the tone and type of regular releases.

"Century Mining reaches new monthly production milestone"

"Century Mining is pleased to announce Lamaque Mine now cash flow positive"

"New drill results in Bedard Dyke outline additional high grade veins"

"Century Mining increases gold reserves by XXX % in new 43-101 report"

"Century Mining announces average gold grade at Lamaque has increased from XX to XX month over month"

These are just meant to be examples off the top of my head. I did not include the obvious CEO announcement and i'm sure they could come up with dozens more.

This way instead of stuffing some good news and bad news that offset each other in a dense quarterly report, the retail investors will get a sense of the improvement and positive growth that is taking place as we quintruple production. They will feel in-touch and proud that their investment and company is moving forward. When they simply had the Lamaque countdown to production, such a simple tool in itself generated a lot of excitement.

I have seen a lot of successful companies in this stage use this strategy as they climbed 5 to 10 fold.

I also see a lot of companies valued much higher than they would be without this type of regular communication. In a recent interview, Rob McEwan discussed the critical aspect of regular updates and communications to his investor base.

If you agree, please send Peter Ball (Director of Communications) a note. (Or even just forward him this if you don't feel like writing.)

If they hear the same thing over and over from many, it will be more effective than if they hear it from just a few. His email is - pball@centurymining.com

Cheers,
RE

Howdy All

I want to start this post by saying that, while it isn't my intention to cause anyone here any undue stress, contempt, etc. at what I have to say, I do hope that it will stimulate some discussion between the many new shareholders we seem to have posting here and the old-timers who have borne many episodes of CMM's worldly existence.

First, I think it is clear to everyone why we are so undervalued relative to our assets. Having said that, however, there are a few things about the Q3 and conference call that I found to be extremely positive.

1: There were more participants and questions on this call than I have ever heard, by leaps and bounds. This serves notice to management that the shareholder base is growing (plenty of purchases the last 2 days to go along with the meltdown). It will be harder to ignore the retail base. I'm pretty sure that I heard KH state twice or three times that we would be hearing more on a regular basis from the company.

2: KH himself said, twice, that "...the worst is behind us..." or "...we have finally reached the turning point..." While there are people in the world who, having said that, I would immediately ingest a large grain of salt, I am not inclined to eat NaCl when Keith Hulley says this. He may have a history of being disappointed by some of his associates, but none of those work at CMM any longer. That single point is why none of the current disappointments bother me, because...

3: ...(I know I'm going to light a few of you up here) starting a gold mine is not like starting a software company. Think about it - you can drill, dig and shove all you want, but the reality of stoping, pitting and blasting is where the meat comes to the table-or not. In less than 12 months, CMM has accomplished what Watters and a host of other miners have not - they have found paydirt in Lamaque. If we are shunting low-grade ore through while we get the mill up to speed, learning the new equipment and all that, I don't see why this is a problem. What it means, long term, is that a bunch of low-grade ore got processed while it was profitable to dig it up. If gold goes back towards 800.00 an ounce next year or the year after, we'll all be saying how smart the management was to run this stuff while gold was high. If gold doesn't go back below 1000.00/0z, then we'll reap the benefits of a steady rate of production of high-grade ore.

Anybody who thinks going a mile below the surface of the earth to find folded, twisted veins is a piece of cake hasn't really thought much about it. Having been a student of and investor in gold mines for over 30 years, I feel safe in saying that NOTHING that has happened to this company in the last year surprises me, except how well they have done in the face of constant derision and difficulty.

I quite agree with the rest of the posters here, that we would love to be riding up with the rest of the market right now. I am quite content to wait, add shares and let the current management keep doing what they are doing - because they are doing exactly what they told me they'd be doing for the last 6 months, jot and tittle. Forecast up? Forecast down? It doesn't bother me at this stage of the game - its normal. If this happens a year after commercial production begins, then I'll worry about it.

My read on Q3? I'm sorry that we didn't have more positive surprises. At the same time, what I heard was no different than what I expected to hear. And if some of you think that this sort of business is a cakewalk, then I suggest that you stick to whatever short-term gains you can find in another marketplace. If you can find any, that is - CMM will be entering the best period of its entire "life" next year, at precisely the time when investment houses will have to turn to mining companies to generate profits - and that is a rising tide that will float this boat.

Idea to Improve CMM's Cash Flow

One thing becomes apparent from reading this report. We need cash!!!!!
Solution:
We enter into a joint partnership to develop the Copper-Gold-Silver porphyry system contained within the huge San Juan property (220 Km **2). The reality is though, on the current timeline, it will be many years before we have capitol to do anything with this portion of San Juan. Add to this, we need a different mining approach and ore structure analysis consistent with copper mining and those associated markets.          

So, then the next logical question is; what mining company has the technology, is current in copper mining technology, is cash rich, and might be willing to partner with us? Also, I would like to add, has a very real frustration with Canadian Gov’t Regulations and hence a motivation to go to Peru. This company, if you have not guessed it by now, is Taseko Mines Limited. The Trading Symbol is TGB. To put this into perspective, TGB had a 3Q profit of 17.5 M$. They also have an enviable PE of 7. What is also of interest is, that, TGB has just been thrown to the preverbal wrestling mat by a Canadian Federal denial of their Prosperity project with 3.6 billion pounds of recoverable copper siting in the ground. Given that TGB has only two major projects this is very significant, as witnessed by TGB’s recent price slide when the news came out. These fine TGB people obviously need a Canadian Winter / Peruvian Vacation / CMM Joint Venture Property Examination Business Trip after this devastating hit. So, let’s help these fine Canadian entrepreneurs out.

To make this happen at the negotiating table, we just might want to bring in some heavy weights who have been there before. In this case, the place to send the headhunters to is Nova Gold. What they have done without mining a single production ounce of gold will someday be at minimum be recorded as…..Legendary.

Nov`s Corp Presentation

http://www.centurymining.com/i/pdf/CMMNovember2010.pdf

Q3 Report is UP on the CMM

website. http://www.centurymining.com/s/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=428475

$5.0 Million PP

BLAINE, WASHINGTON--(Marketwire - Nov. 12, 2010) -




NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OR THROUGH U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES



Century Mining Corporation ("Century" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:CMM) is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into an agreement with a syndicate of agents co-led by Haywood Securities Inc. and Byron Capital Markets, and including Union Securities Ltd. (collectively, the "Agents") pursuant to which the Agents have agreed to offer for sale, on a best efforts private placement basis, up to 12,820,513 units of the Company (the "Units") at a price per Unit of C$0.39 (the "Unit Price") for gross proceeds to the Company of up to C$5,000,000 (the "Offering"). Each Unit will consist of one common share in the capital of the Company (a "Common Share") and one half of one Common Share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one Common Share for a period of 18 months following the closing of the Offering at an exercise price of C$0.60 per Common Share.


The Company has granted the Agents an option, exercisable in whole or in part at any time up to the closing of the Offering, to offer for sale up to an additional 5,128,206 Units at the Unit Price for additional gross proceeds to the Company of up to C$2,000,000.


The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering to advance the Lamaque gold mine in Val d'Or, Quebec through the final commissioning stages of the operation. The proceeds will assist in funding the underground development of the Lamaque Flats, the Bedard Dyke and the North Wall ore production zones. Currently the mine is producing at approximately 1,000 tonnes per day (TPD), and with the commencement of mining in the North Wall zone in Q1/2011, daily production is expected to increase to approximately 1,500 TPD and reach a final steady state production rate of 2,100 TPD by Q4/2011. The 2011 production guidance remains intact at 80,000 to 90,000 ounces gold, is forecasted to become cash flow positive in Q1/2011, and to reach commercial production in the first half of 2011.


The Company has agreed to pay the Agents a cash commission equal to 6.5% of the gross proceeds raised in connection with the Offering and to issue compensation options entitling the Agents to purchase such number of Units that is equal to 6.5% of the aggregate number of Units sold pursuant to the Offering, at an exercise price equal to the Unit Price, for a period of 18 months following the closing of the Offering.


The Offering is subject to receipt of all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals, including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. All securities issued in connection with the Offering will be subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus one day from the date of issuance in accordance with applicable securities legislation.


The securities being offered hereby have not been, nor will they be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any state or province in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.



About Century Mining Corporation



Century Mining Corporation is a Canadian junior gold producer which holds strategic land positions in Canada, United States and Peru. The Company's strategy is to grow to an intermediate gold producer through existing mine expansions and acquisitions of other strategic and synergistic gold opportunities.


On behalf of Century Mining Corporation,


Keith Hulley, Interim CEO

Here is Century`s official NR to close off the first part

Nov 10, 2010 18:32 ET

Century Mining Closes $1,500,000 Private Placement

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Century Mining Corporation ("Century" or "the Company") (TSX VENTURE:CMM) is pleased to announce that it has closed the private placement announced November 9, 2010. The private placement consisted of 3,846,154 units (the "Units") of the Company, at a price of $0.39 per Unit, for gross proceeds of $1,500,000. Each Unit consisted of one common share and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant is exercisable for one common share at $0.60 for 18 months from closing.

The Company has paid a finder's fee of $90,000, representing 6% of the gross proceeds of the private placement. All securities issued under this private placement will be subject to a four-month hold period.

The proceeds from this offering will be used for the continuing commissioning of the Lamaque Gold Mine operation in Val d'Or, Quebec, Canada.

TSX-V accepts 1st part of financing

CENTURY MINING CORPORATION ("CMM")
BULLETIN TYPE: Private Placement-Non-Brokered
BULLETIN DATE: November 10, 2010
TSX Venture Tier 2 Company

TSX Venture Exchange has accepted for filing documentation with respect toa Non-Brokered Private Placement announced November 8, 2010:

Number of Shares: 3,846,154 shares

Purchase Price: $0.39 per share

Warrants: 1,923,077 share purchase warrants to purchase 1,923,077 shares

Warrant Exercise Price: $0.60 for an eighteen-month period

Number of Placees: 1 placee

Finder's Fee: $90,000 cash payable to Carlton
Lead Incorporated (Irina Artemova)

Pursuant to Corporate Finance Policy 4.1, Section 1.11(d), the Company mustissue a news release announcing the closing of the private placement andsetting out the expiry dates of the hold period(s). The Company must alsoissue a news release if the private placement does not close promptly. Notethat in certain circumstances the Exchange may later extend the expiry dateof the warrants, if they are less than the maximum permitted term.

Canadian Exploration Expenditures (CEE)

``........flow-through..... $2,500,000.``

``......., while the proceeds of the private placement of Flow-Through Units will be used for eligible Canadian Exploration Expenditures ("CEE") including the diamond drill program at Lamaque.``

I don`t know what the CEE rules are exactly, but I have seen other companies treat CEE PP funding as restrictive cash, set aside for exploration work only. I believe for the PP investor to claim a CEE tax benefit, it requires the company to actually spend the money on exploration work. Again, I haven`t looked it up to see what the exact rules are, thus I am not 100% sure. Also, I do not know the documentation process that is followed, after the PP dollars are spent (i.e. if the company has to submit a document to show proof of exploration work performed before the PP investor is able to claim the CEE tax benefit).

It sounds like 63% of the $4M funding (at least initially) is targeted for CEE exploration work (a more aggressive exploration program as Lamaque).

Some thoughts on Century^_^

Also, if they do a PP then it is done on the primary market and not the secondary. As we know the primary market is a sale of shares from the company to a stake holder. We would have a Cash Debit and a Credit in the equity section basically resulting in cash in the account. Had the investors done this on the secondary market, than the money would have simply transferred to another holder. In this case we needed cash and people were willing to give it at a discount to MV.

I know many have a negative feeling about these private placements/flow through but I think it is important to note that the people placing the money are people with some knowledge and that have a lot of money. If they are willing to dilute the stock and take a position then maybe there is more positive than negative to the picture. Much of the money from the Initial PP can only be accessed later due to some rules that were put in place.I would much rather see a PP than have a low cash balance.....risk management. I consider days like today excellent buying opp's for current holders and new holders for that matter.

With that being said I know people are pretty “stoked” to see what the company has to release on the 15^th but I think it will simply be a time for the company to answer some question and to see some improved financial statements.Much of the money from the past was used to clear the balance sheet to make some of those ratios look a little better (it worked).The real figures that will send us rocketing in one direction or another are the Q1 results in 2011 when we are suppose to be Cash Flow Positive. If gold prices stay over $1300 (which I def think they will) we should be able to pull it off no problem from what I see from the current financials. I took the financials put some finance skills to work and it looks like if the production number are accurate we should be well on our way.Also, I highly doubt if there will be any announcement of the new CEO in the coming week.Many people do not understand but this is a long process.Just think, each person that is considered must meet board members for interviews which are literally spread across the map including Russia of course.I am not a fan of waiting on a new CEO but I would rather wait than to have a “half Decent” CEO at the helm.Once we find a CEO with a great track record I think he or she will be able to accelerate this company in the right direction.

At this point in the game all we can do is wait and see what happens.It may be frustrating for some to see share price go sideways but in trading school they always said “longer the consolidation the bigger the pop!” The longer we stay at these levels the more support we have as people that got in early sell and the new Purchase price for new investors becomes current MV.

I guess I kind of wrote a book and made many points (some of which that may not be clear to all) I think people need to sit back and relax ....we have a great investment here and from what I see we have little firm specific risk.I think the private placements that we have seen in the past prove this.We have Russian millionaires backing us up because they know where the price of gold is going and they want to try and coin it on this junior.

Once again Cheers and if there are any comment or concerns please post them.

Have a good one!

Your questions submitted to Peter Ball

To be anwered during the conference call.

Thanks to those that contributed questions. I was not able to include all of the questions. Remember, the other questions (not on the list) can still be asked by individual callers during the conference call.

Here is the list of your questions submitted to Peter Ball via e-mail:

1) ``What are the current obstacles preventing CMM from getting long-hole mined production out of BD .. and North Slope. .. and when are these issues expected to be resolved.... and what tonnage is planned out of both BD and North Slope, both near-term and mid-term... at what ore grade (near-term, mid-term and long-term)?``

2) ``At $1,300 gold how many ounces per month does Century need to produce per month at Lamaque to be cash-flow positive? I would like to see monthly production info reported on a monthly basis.``

3) ``When does the bleeding stop with these PP's?"...at what point is someone gonna take blame for another one priced at .39?``

4) ``Why is gold breaking new highs every day while CMM can't break 50 cents? When will CMM follow price of gold and rise in the markets. The day before Peggy resigned, CMM closed at $.47 share price and the gold price closed at US$1,168 per ounce. Since then, the gold price has increased to US$1,420 (US$252 increase), yet we see a 2 cent decrease in CMM`s share price, to $.45. The majority of junior companies in the gold space have realized significant increases in share price during this same period, even companies at mine development stages. Could the company please explain reasons for CMM`s under performance in the market relative to other juniors during this period? What are the near-term and long-term expectations for CMM`s share price?``

5) ``Why has the company eliminated the monthly updates to the market? Why is it so terrible to brief shareholders on monthly production updates if there's nothing to hide? Why does management seem so disinterested in the performance of the share price?``

6) ``Has the company found the long awaited CEO? If not, what is the latest situation? When is the new CEO expected to be hired?``

Another pp...

Tuesday, November 09, 2010Press Release

Century Mining Announces $1,500,000 Private Placement and $2,500,000 Flow-Through Private Placement


Century Mining Corporation ("Century" or "the Company") (CMM: TSX-V) is pleased to announce that it intends to complete a private placement financing of 3,846,154 units (the "Units") of the Company, at a price of $0.39 per Unit, for gross proceeds of $1,500,000. Each Unit will consist of one common share and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will be exercisable for one common share at $0.60 for 18 months from closing. The Company will pay a finder's fee of 6% of the gross proceeds of the private placement.

The Company also intends to complete a private placement financing of 5,555,556 flow-through units (the "Flow-Through Units") of the Company, at a price of $0.45 per Unit, for gross proceeds of $2,500,000. Each Flow-Through Unit will consist of one common share issued on a flow-through basis and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will be exercisable for one common share at $0.60 for 18 months from closing. The Company will pay finder's fees of 7% of the gross proceeds of the Flow-Through Units in cash and warrants equal to 5% of the number of Flow-Through Units (the "Compensation Warrants"). Each Compensation Warrant will be exercisable for one common share at $0.45 for 18 months from closing.

The proceeds from the private placement offering will be used for the continuing commissioning of its Lamaque Gold Mine operation in Val d'Or, Québec, Canada, while the proceeds of the private placement of Flow-Through Units will be used for eligible Canadian Exploration Expenditures ("CEE") including the diamond drill program at Lamaque.

The completion of both the private placement and the private placement of Flow-Through Units is subject to regulatory approval by the TSX Venture Exchange and completion of documentation. All securities issued under both the private placement and the private placement of Flow-Through Units will be subject to a four-month hold period.

About Century Mining Corporation

Century Mining Corporation is a Canadian junior gold producer and holds strategic land positions in Canada, United States and Peru. The Company's strategy is to grow to an intermediate gold producer through existing mine expansions and acquisitions of other strategic and synergistic gold opportunities.

On behalf of Century Mining Corporation,

"Keith Hulley"

Interim CEO

Questions for the conference call

As mentioned in my last post, Peter Ball is interested in answering about 4 questions during the conference call, prior to the regular (open) question period part of the call. There will still be a regular Q&A part of the call, for individual callers to ask questions. This opportunity here provides an avenue to ensure key questions as asked, just in case any of the key questions are missed by individual callers during the regular Q&A session. Post your specific questions on here. I will forward the most popular questions to Peter via email next Monday or Tuesday. Of note, it is better is the questions are specific. It will help me when it comes time to consolidate the questions and it will increase the chances of the company providing an answers (the better they are able to understand the question).

This initiative was not my idea. It is something that Peter Ball requested. It is a proactive effort by the company to improve the information flow during the conference call. Although they encourage as much participation as possible on the conference call, they recognize that not everyone will be able to participate on the conference call. Let`s take advantage of this opportunity and come up with 4 good questions.

Welcome Nicholas,

I find it great to have someone with some investment knowledge to the scene here. I was looking at your corporate profile:

Nicholas Winton

Owner, Hedgehog Trader

Toronto, Canada Area

Current

• Owner at Hedgehog Trader
• Virtual Fund Manager at Marketocracy.com

Past

• Investment Writer at Delphi Associates

Education

• University of Toronto
• University of Toronto - University College

Nicholas Winton’s Summary

Nicholas Winton’s Specialties:

Forecasting the rise/fall of commodities, indices and uniquely - individual stocks, over the short-term, long-term and even on a week-to-week and day-to-day basis using traditional methods, technical analysis, contrarian strategy, and most importantly, Hedgehog Trader's own proprietary Alpha Signals. Finding undervalued resource companies about to explode in value!

Nicholas Winton’s Experience

• Owner

  Hedgehog Trader

  (Financial Services industry)

  October 2006 — Present (4 years 1 month)

  CEO and editor-in-chief of HedgehogTrader.com. That's where I offer a number of cutting-edge investment advisories profiling elite metal stocks, uranium, oil & gas, alternative energy and microcap stocks on US and Canadian Exchanges. Generated +2,000% gains in resource stocks for our subscribers over the past 2 years! Continue to publish public forecasts for gold, silver, broad market indices and particular companies, on our blog and on Twitter which prove accurate!

• Virtual Fund Manager

  Marketocracy.com

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  February 2003 — Present (7 years 9 months)

  Manage several virtual investment funds, including my flagship Hedgehog Fund which began with a NAV of 10 and rose to a high of 36 in just two years by focusing on resource stocks.

• Investment Writer

  Delphi Associates

  (Financial Services industry)

  August 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 6 months)

  Investment writer for one of North America's largest New Age magazines, The Delphi Associates Newsletter. Starting in 2005, wrote about the future (now present) financial crisis and recommended preparing for it with physical gold and silver - as well as a basket of 8 US-listed gold and silver stocks that soared an average of 100% in two years!

Nicholas Winton’s Education

• University of Toronto

  cTESL , 1997 — 1999

• University of Toronto - University College

  B.A. , English , 1992 — 1997

  Activities and Societies:

  Writer (University College: Gargoyle), Writer (The Newspaper), Writer (The Independent), VP Classics Students Union

It't great to have you on the blog. I just hope your not the kind of guy that would pump a stock in a blog that gets much attention and the proceed to selling shares. Not that you would I have just seen this type of thing happen in the past.

Once again welcome to the blog we have a nice little community of investors here and I am sure that your input and opinions will be well appreciated.

Cheers,

Some notes

I did manage to connect with Peter.

Of note, one should be aware that Lamaque is a work in progress. One should keep this in mind when reading this post and when trying to evaluate the current state of Lamaque.

At the end of the day, I am the ultimate one accountable for my investments. I am the one that will have to live with the consequences of my decisions, regardless of the info provided by the company. As a result, I find that it is extremely important for me to be completely objective with my evaluation approach (of all my investments) regardless of any type of positive forward looking info from the company.

I don`t think I have reached a comfortable state as yet about the near-term Lamaque start up, but at the same time I haven`t noticed any major red flags either. This is positive, especially given the start up delays. Again, my view is only from a 10,000 foot level. I may not see the entire picture.

It sounds like infrastructure development work is on track with the Bedard Dyke. It doesn`t sound like there are major issues with Lamaque no. 2 area, at least based on the descriptions I received (see below).

I personally don`t have a good sense of the data at a granular level (at least the averages) for current and near-term periods. As such, it is difficult to compare actual data performance to my own near-term expectations for evaluation purposes. However, the company`s Q1 (unofficial) guidance appears to be somewhat reasonable relative to my expectations.


Notes:


1) It seems like the capital lease financing agreement (from the June 28th NR) has been closed off.


2) Apparently, it shouldn`t be too much longer for the long-hole permit. Also, it sounds like they still have some extraction room under the original Exploration permit, if necessary (part of the 20,000 tonne bulk sample). They haven`t started long-hole mining yet, naturally. The BD ore currently being processed I think is from the areas being developed (development material from the top and bottom cuts). As such, it will fluctuate from day to day.


3) They are looking to average 1,200 – 1,500 tpd in Q1`11. It would be aligned with my expectations, if they can hit it. It would include all 3 zones (Lamaque 2, Bedard Dyke, North Wall), but at different tpd levels. Naturally, North Wall is planned to come online later than the other 2 zones, thus will have a disproportionate contribution to Q1 average tpd (1,200 – 1,500) relative to the other 2 zones.


4) As I figured, the 820 tpd (July) and the 1,000 tpd (early August) were rich partly due to heavy mineralized material from development areas (especially Bedard Dyke). The tpd decreased back down to more sustainable levels once they got past those mineralized development areas. Based on the best answers I got from the company (strictly based on this, and I have nothing else to confirm it), there doesn`t seem to be major problems with the Lamaque no. 2 stope ore area. Lately they haven`t had to use the Lamaque 2 reserves due to the Lamaque 2 non-reserves continuing to be rich. Back in June, I remember an NR stating that the non-reserves stope ore was contributing 30 – 35% of Lamaque 2 ore to the mill. Apparently, the non-reserve stope ore is now contributing at a rate of 100% (calculation excluding mineralized development material from both Lamaque 2 and Bedard Dyke of course). If I understand this performance correctly, it means that the Lamaque 2 stopes are still strong, and they are able to save the Lamaque 2 stope reserve ore. The low-profile equipment appears to be a key in allowing them to extent the stopes. I believe I heard that there is only 1 jackleg and slusher combo remaining in production. I believe I also heard that are ordering another low-profile combo to replace the final jackleg/slusher combo.

Once ramped up and working well, they are expecting each zone (Lamaque 2, BD, NW) to be contributing at a rate of 400 – 700 tpd. The 700 tpd level from each zone is consistent with my long-term expectations. I don`t have a good sense of what the company is expecting with regards to grade in both the near-term and mid-term periods. The company may be waiting for further development progress before they feel more comfortable discussing forward looking near-term or even mid-term grade numbers. This somewhat hinders my personal evaluation.


5) They are looking to access the North Wall underground via the Lamaque no. 2 area. It sounds like they have made good progress on that front. They are looking to begin mining NW at some point in Q1. It sounds like their NW access focus is via the Lamaque 2. It sounds like finishing the NW portal then building the NW decline is secondary priority (after they begin mining NW via Lamaque 2 access).


6) Still a chance of accessing the Performance Hurdle B (Deutsche Bank, escrow) funds in Q1.


7) Peter`s understanding is the same as mine with regards to the Deutsche Bank agreement (the agreement is posted on SEDAR, Jan. 14`11). There doesn`t appear to be any near-term or mid-term show stopper dates (BEST I CAN TELL, but I`m not a lawyer), just as long as we continue to deliver the 667 monthly ounces to Deutsche Bank and we are able to continue funding the operations. The ounces to Deutsche Bank does not increase beyond the 667 monthly commitment until June 2012.


8) I don`t know how much of this next info is strictly company speak. I asked about the relationship with Deutsche Bank. For what it`s worth, Peter says that the relationship is excellent.


I will make another post about conference call questions. Peter is willing to answer about 4 questions during the conference call, prior to the question period. We should post questions on here and then someone can take the most popular questions and send it to him via email by November 8th. Again, I will make another post for this.

Gold miners' profits expected to sparkle

REUTERS OCTOBER 22, 2010 1:19 AM

Canadian gold miners are expected to report a sharp jump in quarterly profits in coming weeks, though cost increases and foreign exchange rates are likely to limit the benefits of record bullion prices.

Gold prices averaged $1,227 an ounce in the third quarter, a 28 per cent increase over the same period of 2009, with spot prices climbing to daily highs and hitting a record of $1,315.80.

The world's top two gold miners, Barrick Gold and Goldcorp. are expected to post 50 per cent increases in earnings over the previous year, according to Thomson Reuters. No. 3 Kinross, which closed a $7.1-billion deal to buy Red Back Mining in September, is expected to post a nearly 100 per cent increase in adjusted earnings.

Goldcorp and Agnico-Eagle will kick off the flurry of earnings Wednesday, followed by Barrick and Eldorado Gold, and then Newmont Mining, Yamana Gold, Iamgold and Kinross.

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