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Granting of Options

posted on Jan 29, 2009 10:11AM
January 29, 2009
Nautilus Minerals Inc.: Granting of Options
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan. 29, 2009) - Nautilus Minerals Inc. (TSX:NUS)(AIM:NUS) (the "Company" or "Nautilus") announces that on January 7, 2009 the Company granted options over 550,000 common shares to its non-executive directors at an exercise price of C$0.99 that vest at 20% every six months from the issue and expiring on January 7, 2012. The options granted to the non-executive directors are received in lieu of payment for their services as a director of the Company.

The details regarding the options granted are as follows:

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                                 No. of
                                 options
                                 over
                                 commons  Exercise   Vesting     Expiration
Name            Date of grant    shares   Price      period      Date
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Geoff Loudon    January 7,       150,000  C$0.99     20% every   January 7,
                 2009                                6 months     2012
                                                     from date
                                                     of issue
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Farhad Moshiri  January 7,       100,000  C$0.99     20% every   January 7,
                 2009                                6 months     2012
                                                     from date
                                                     of issue
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David De Witt   January 7,       100,000  C$0.99     20% every   January 7,
                 2009                                6 months     2012
                                                     from date
                                                     of issue
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Russell Debney  January 7,       100,000  C$0.99     20% every   January 7,
                 2009                                6 months     2012
                                                     from date
                                                     of issue
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John O'Reilly   January 7,       100,000  C$0.99     20% every   January 7,
                 2009                                6 months     2012
                                                     from date
                                                     of issue
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                Total Granted    550,000
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About Nautilus Minerals Inc.

Nautilus is the first company to commercially explore the ocean floor for gold and copper seafloor massive sulphide deposits and is currently developing its first project. The Company's main focus is the Solwara 1 Project, which is located in the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean. Nautilus is listed on the TSX and on AIM, and has among its largest shareholders two of the world's leading international resource companies, Teck (6.8%) and Anglo American (11.1%). Metalloinvest, one of the largest and fastest growing mining and metallurgical holding companies in Russia, beneficially owns 21.0% of its shares through Gazmetall Holding (Cypress) Limited.
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