Bear Creek Grants Incentive Stock Options

VANCOUVER, Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Bear Creek Mining (TSX Venture: BCM / BVL: BCM) ("Bear Creek" or the "Company") announces that the Board of Directors has authorized the grant of 355,000 incentive stock options under its incentive stock option plan to an officer and employees of Bear Creek, at an exercise price of $3.55 per share, exercisable on or before November 15, 2017. The options are being granted to the Company's key Peruvian based employees in recognition of important achievements relating to the Corani Project and other activities.  These options are exercisable for a five-year period and the grant is subject to vesting provisions in accordance with the Company's Stock Option Plan.

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SOURCE Bear Creek Mining Corporation