NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING

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Aureus Mining Inc.

7 November 2016

Aureus Mining Inc.

TSX : AUE

AIM : AUE

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING AND MAILING OF PROXY MATERIALS

Aureus Mining Inc. (TSX: AUE / AIM: AUE) ("Aureus" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that, further to the Company's announcement dated 14 October 2016, the special meeting of shareholders of the Company (the "Special Meeting") will be held at the offices of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Tower 42, Level 21, 25 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1HQ, United Kingdom, on Tuesday, 29 November 2016 at 10:00 a.m. (Greenwich Mean Time). The Company has today filed its notice of meeting, information circular and other meeting materials on www.sedar.com. A copy of these materials has been sent by post today. An electronic copy is available on the Company's website at www.aureus-mining.com.

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