Transaction in Own Shares

5 July 2012

Bellzone Mining plc

("Bellzone" or "the Company")

Transaction in Own Shares

Bellzone Mining plc (AIM:BZM), announces that on 4 July 2012 it purchased 500,000 of its ordinary shares at an average price of 17.78 pence per ordinary share. The highest price and the lowest price paid for these shares were 18.0 pence and 17.5 pence respectively. All the purchased shares will be held as Treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, the Company holds 3,710,664 ordinary shares as Treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue is 737,613,821 (excluding ordinary shares held as treasury shares).

Enquiries:

Bellzone Mining plc

Terry Larkan/Graham Fyfe +61 (0) 8 9420 8900

Canaccord Genuity Limited

Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker to Bellzone +44 (0)20 7523 8000

Andrew Chubb/Tarica Mpinga

Renaissance Capital Limited

Joint Broker to Bellzone +44 (0)20 7367 7777

Rob Edwards

Tavistock (UK)

Jos Simson/Mike Bartlett +44 (0)20 7920 3150 / +44 (0)7899 870 450

PPR (Australia)

David Ikin

+61 (0) 8 9388 0944 / +61 (0) 408 438 772