Lincoln Mining Grants Stock Options

July 5, 2011

Vancouver, British Columbia – Lincoln Mining Corporation, TSX-V: LMG (“Lincoln”) or the “Company”) announces that pursuant to its Incentive Stock Option Plan, it has granted incentive stock options to new directors of the Company to purchase up to an aggregate of 600,000 common shares in the capital stock of the Company.  The options are exercisable at a price of $0.19 per share for a period of five years from the date of grant.  The options will vest over a 24 month period with one eighth of the allotment available for exercise every three months.

Lincoln Mining Corp. is a Canadian precious metals exploration and development company with several projects in various stages of exploration and development which include the Pine Grove gold property, the Oro Cruz gold property in California and the La Bufa gold-silver property in Mexico. In the United States, the Company operates under Lincoln Gold US Corp., a Nevada corporation.

For further information, please contact Investor Relations at 604-688-7377 or visit the Company’s website at www.lincolnmining.com.     

On behalf of Lincoln Mining Corporation  

“Paul Saxton”  

Paul Saxton, President & CEO  

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