Transaction in Own Shares

Griffin Mining Ltd

Transaction in Own Shares

19th January 2011

Griffin Mining Ltd ("the Company") announces that on 18th January 2011 it purchased 25,000 of the Company's own ordinary shares ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 66.5p per share. The Ordinary Shares have been purchased for cancellation (the "Purchase and Cancellation").

The purchase represented 0.01% of the Company's issued share capital before the Purchase and Cancellation and was pursuant to the byelaws of the Company and a resolution passed by the directors.

Following the cancellation of these Ordinary Shares there will be 179,966,830 Ordinary Shares in the Company in issue. There are no shares held in treasury.

Griffin Mining Limited +44 (0) 20 7629 7772

Mladen Ninkov, Chairman

Roger Goodwin, Finance Director

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Dominic Morley

Hannah Woodley

Griffin Mining Limited's shares are quoted on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange (symbol GFM).

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