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Lachlan Star Announces Outstanding Drill Results From Its CMD Gold Mine Including 21.2m Grading 3.33 g/t Au, 20.9m Grading 2.19 g/t Au and 23m Grading 1.12% Cu

Gold miner, Lachlan Star Limited ("Lachlan" or the "Company") (TSX:LSA)(ASX:LSA) is pleased to announce further drill results from its 100% owned CMD Gold Mine in Chile.

Highlights from the drill program include:

Chisperos Deposit

• 21.2m grading 3.33 g/t Au from 82m downhole DDH 2012-125
• 17m grading 1.10 g/t Au from 21m downhole RCH 2012-126
• 13m grading 1.94 g/t Au from 21m downhole RCH 2012-127

About the company

Lachlan Star Limited is an emerging minerals exploration and development company headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The company is focused on acquiring and developing assets within the gold, copper and bulk commodities sectors within Australia and overseas. The company has a board of directors and management team with an impressive track record of advancing resource projects through to production.

Last: 1.30Range: 1.78-0.83Market Cap: 112 million

Lumina Intersects 730 Meters Grading 0.57% Copper Equivalent in 150 Meter Step Out Hole to the Northeast-Includes 156 Meters Grading 0.90% Copper Equivalent

Lumina Copper Corp. (TSX VENTURE:LCC) (the "Company")

is pleased to announce results from 15 new core holes, 15 new reverse circulation holes ("RC") and oxide gold assay results from 11 previously drilled holes whose leached cap core material was not assayed. The results are highlighted by hole TT-104, a 150 meter step-out hole to the east from hole TT-79 that previously defined the northeastern boundary of the current National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") mineral resource estimate. TT-104 intersected 730 meters grading 0.46% copper, 0.08 g/t gold and 0.01% molybdenum (0.57% copper equivalent(1)), including 156 meters grading 0.78% copper, 0.10 g/t gold and 0.01% molybdenum (0.90% copper equivalent).

About the company

Lumina Copper Corp is an exploration and development company with copper resources in Argentina. The 100% owned property, Taca Taca, is a copper/gold/molybdenum project, comprising approximately 2,500 hectares, located in the Puna region of north western Argentina in the Salta Province. Taca Taca lies 230 km west of the provincial capital of Salta and 90 km east of the world's largest copper mine, Escondida.

Lumina Copper Corp is listed on the TSX Venture exchange under the trading symbol LCC.

Last: 8.42Range: 17.16-5.35Market Cap: 344 million