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Cline's management and Board of Directors expects the Restructuring to provide the necessary funding in both the short-term and long-term to address Cline's financial difficulties, including the sustaining of the Company for approximately three years of operations under care and maintenance or, alternatively, providing the Company with sufficient funding to ramp up operations to production if sales contracts are in place to warrant the recommencement of production, and to fulfill the Company's obligations under the Trust Indenture. The Company continues to advance discussions with customers for the sale of its metallurgical coal and will provide an update to the market in the first quarter of 2013.

As the Restructuring will result in the issuance of common shares to the bondholders in excess of 25% of the number of currently outstanding common shares of the Company and at a price that is at a significant discount to the current market price of the common shares, the Restructuring would ordinarily require shareholder approval under the requirements of the TSX. However, the Company has applied for an exemption from the shareholder approval requirement on the basis of financial hardship, given that the immediacy of Cline's need to address its financial difficulties through the Restructuring does not afford it sufficient time to hold a meeting of shareholders.

About Cline

Cline has metallurgical coal property interests in British Columbia and in Colorado, U.S.A. with NI 43-101 independent Technical Reports. Cline Mining Corporation is focused on the exploration and development of metallurgical steel making coals in Canada and the U.S., and on its iron ore property in Madagascar and its Cline Lake gold property in northern Ontario, Canada.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements (including "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) relating to, among other things, the operations of the Company, the environment in which it operates and the Company's future financial and operating performance. Generally, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Such statements are based on assumptions, estimates, forecasts and projections made in light of the trends, conditions and expected developments that are considered to be relevant and reasonable in the circumstances at the date that such statements are made. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and such information is inherently subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are difficult to predict and may be beyond the control of the Company. A number of factors and assumptions may cause actual results, level of activity, performance or outcomes of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements including, without limitation, the future price of coal, industry market trends and predictions, the estimation of mineral reserves and resources, capital, operating and exploration expenditures, costs and timing of future exploration, requirements for additional capital, government regulation of mining operations, environmental risks, reclamation expenses, title disputes or claims, limitations of insurance coverage and regulatory matters and other risks set forth in other public filings of the Company. Consequently, undue reliance should not be placed on such forward-looking statements. In addition, all forward-looking statements in this press release are given as of the date hereof. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, save and except as may be required by applicable securities laws.

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Brookfield Place, 181 Bay Street, 3rd Floor, Clarkson Gordon Heritage Building, Toronto, ON, M5J 2T3.



Contacts:
Cline Mining Corporation
Ken Bates
President and CEO
(416) 504-7600
kbates@clinemining.com

The Capital Lab
Belinda Labatte/Greg DiTomaso
(647) 438-2193
investor@clinemining.com