Copper Mountain pours first concrete for mill foundations

TSX: CUM

VANCOUVER, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Copper Mountain Mining Corporation
(TSX: CUM) (the "Company" or "Copper Mountain") announces that the Company's
has commenced construction on the mill foundations at the Copper Mountain
Project site. The Company's contractor Gisborne Industrial Construction Ltd
has completed their mobilization and completed the first pour of concrete for
the mill foundation. Concrete will continue to be poured through to mid
December 2009, to complete the building foundations in preparation for the
erection of the building steel in the spring of 2010.
Mr. O'Rourke, Chief Executive Officer of the Company stated: "We are extremely
pleased with how quickly Gisborne mobilized their support facilities and crews
to be in construction following us receiving the go ahead from the BC
Government. With this planned construction start the project is on target to
meet our scheduled production goal of mid 2011."

About Copper Mountain Mining Corporation:

Copper Mountain is a Canadian resource company managed by an experienced team
of professionals with a solid track record of exploration and development
success. The Company's shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the
symbol "CUM". Copper Mountain owns 75% and Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
owns 25% of the Copper Mountain Project. The 18,000 acre mine site is located
15 km south of the town of Princeton in southern British Columbia. The Copper
Mountain Project is a past producer of 1.7 billion pounds of Copper that
closed in 1996, and therefore, there is significant developed infrastructure
on site that the Company can build upon. The Copper Mountain Project has a
current resource of approximately 5 billion pounds of copper and it is Copper
Mountain's goal to develop the Copper Mountain Project as a mid tier copper
and precious metal mine to produce approximately 100 million pounds of copper
per year by mid 2011. Additional information is available on the Company's web
page at www.CuMtn.com.

On behalf of the Board of
COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING CORPORATION

"Rod Shier"

Rod Shier
Chief Financial Officer

Note: This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties. These statements may differ materially from actual future
events or results. Readers are referred to the documents, filed by the Company
on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, specifically the most recent reports which identify
important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those
contained in the forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no
obligation to review or confirm analysts' expectations or estimates or to
release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statement.

SOURCE Copper Mountain Mining Corporation

Don Graham: Director, Investor Relations, (604) 682-2992 ext. 224, Email:
don@CuMtn.com; or B&D Capital, (604) 685-6465, Website: www.CuMtn.com