Lincoln Mining Begins Drilling at Bell Mountain, Nevada

Lincoln Mining Corporation (TSX VENTURE:LMG) ("Lincoln") or the "Company") is
pleased to announce that two drill rigs are presently operating at its Bell
Mountain gold-silver property in Churchill County, Nevada. Lincoln controls the
project through a purchase agreement and assignment of an option to earn 100%
interest in the property (see news release dated November 28, 2012). Core
drilling for metallurgical samples began on April 6 and remains in progress.
Core drilling for geotechnical data will follow. Infill reverse-circulation
drilling to upgrade the resource confidence level began on April 15 and also
remains in progress. Subsequent data will be included in a Pre-Feasibility
Report planned for later this year. It is the Company's intent to advance the
project to production.


Planned Drilling

A total of 35 holes are planned for an estimated total of 8,780 ft (2,825 m).
Drilling is expected to be completed sometime in May.


Summary of Planned Drilling



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Purpose       Type Drilling   Holes Feet/Meters Comments                    
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Metallurgy    PQ Core             6   1,360/415 Material for column leach   
                                                tests                       
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Geotechnical  Oriented HQ-3       5   1,150/350 Data for pit wall stability 
              Core                                                          
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Infill        Reverse            24 6,270/2,825 Increase resource confidence
              Circulation                                                   
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       Totals                    35 8,780/2,825                             
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Resources

Gold-silver resources at Bell Mountain are present in three deposits, the Spurr,
Varga and Sphinx. At a cutoff grade of 0.006 opt gold, these deposits host
measured and indicated resources of 10,760,000 tons grading 0.015 opt gold and
0.514 opt silver containing a total of 165,018 ozs gold and 5,533,907 ozs
silver. At the same cutoff grade, inferred resources are 2,255,000 tons grading
0.013 opt gold and 0.387 opt silver containing a total of 29,550 ozs gold and
872,411 ozs silver (see Lincoln news release dated Dec. 19, 2012). Lincoln
believes that the three deposits at Bell Mountain are well suited to open-pit
mining and heap leach processing.


Mr. Jeffrey Wilson, the Company's Vice President Exploration and a "qualified
person" under National Instrument 43-101, reviewed and approved the scientific
and technical information contained in this news release.


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 Resource Group Corp. and Lincoln Gold US
Corp.; both are Nevada corporations.


On behalf of Lincoln Mining Corporation

Paul Saxton, President & CEO

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STATEMENTS OTHER THAN STATEMENTS OF HISTORICAL FACT INCLUDED IN THIS RELEASE,
INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, STATEMENTS REGARDING FUTURE PLANS AND OBJECTIVES
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EXPECTATIONS INCLUDE ACTUAL EXPLORATION RESULTS ON BELL MOUNTAIN, PROJECT
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