HML

New Hana Copper Mining Ltd., ("HML" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:HML) is
pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Paul Taggar as the new Chief
Financial Officer ("CFO") of the Company, effective as of May 3, 2011. Mr.
Matthew ("Matt") Kavanagh, the outgoing CFO, has resigned to pursue other
opportunities.


Mr. Taggar, a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, joins
us from Fronteer Gold Inc. where he spent the last 5 years as Corporate
Controller until the acquisition of Fronteer Gold by Newmont Mining Corp.
(TSX:NMC)(NYSE:NEM) for Cdn$2.3 billion in April 2011. Prior to Fronteer, Mr.
Taggar worked as a manager for KPMG, LLP in their Vancouver and Silicon Valley
offices in the audit assurance department. Mr. Taggar is a Chartered Accountant
and has a BBA from Simon Fraser University.


Activities Update:

The following exploration activities are ongoing to fulfill the goal of the
discovery of copper-silver mineralization at the Kuke Project:




--  A total of 11,000 soil samples from the Kuke Project have been submitted
    to the laboratory for analysis. An additional 2,000 samples are expected
    to be submitted before the end of May. The results from the samples will
    help delineate targets for drilling. 

--  To date eight drill targets have been delineated by the soil
    geochemistry results. 

--  Reverse circulation drilling is expected to commence in early June at
    Block 2 which is located at the southwest block of the Kuke Project. The
    initial drilling results are expected to be available in Q3 2011. 

--  Please visit the Company's website at www.newhanamining.com for
    additional details on the Company and the Kuke Project. 



New Hana Copper Mining's President and CEO, Mr. Marek Kreczmer, commented as
follows:


"I am personally very pleased to welcome Paul to the New Hana team. I believe
that Paul's experience at Fronteer, which during his tenure saw its market
capitalization increased from Cdn$300 million to over Cdn$2.23 billion at the
time of its acquisition by Newmont, will be invaluable to New Hana which is a
rapidly growing company.


I would also like to thank Matt Kavanagh for his contributions in the CFO role
over the last year. We wish Matt every success in his other ongoing corporate
endeavors."


About New Hana Copper's Kuke Copper-Silver Project in Botswana:

The exploration-stage Kuke Project is located in the center of the Kalahari
Copper Belt in northwestern Botswana. The Kuke property covers 10,654 square
kilometres and is adjacent and along strike to Hana Mining Ltd.'s ("Hana")
Ghanzi Copper Silver Project. On April 21, 2010, Hana released the results of
its NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate for the Ghanzi Project, announcing an
inferred mineral resource of 3.9 billion pounds of copper and 62.1 million
ounces of silver from 177 million tonnes.


The project will benefit from proposed rail and power infrastructure expansions,
along with proximity to local population centers and workforce. A feasibility
study is currently underway (funded by the World Bank and the Governments of
Botswana and Namibia) to support completion of a rail line link that would
connect Botswana with the Namibian port of Walvis Bay, on the Atlantic coast.
The closest existing railhead to port is at Gobabis, in Namibia, approximately
550 km from our property. Construction has begun on the 600MW expansion of the
government-owned Moropule Power Plant, having secured US$825 million project
funding in May 2010. The Kuke Copper- Silver Project is currently accessed by
the paved Trans-Kalahari highway, which passes within 5 km of the property.


Statements in this press release, other than purely historical information,
including statements relating to the Company's future plans and objectives or
expected results, may include forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements are based on numerous assumptions and are subject to all of the risks
and uncertainties inherent in resource exploration and development. As a result,
actual results may vary materially from those described in the forward-looking
statements.

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