Ximen Mining Hires Dr. Mathew Ball as Vice President of Exploration

Dr. Ball has over 30 years of worldwide geological experience including underground precious metals mine development programs. Presently Dr. Ball is also Interim CEO, COO and Chief Geologist of Golden Dawn Minerals (TSXv: GOM) located near Greenwood British Columbia. Previously he held positions as President and COO at the Bralorne gold mine in British Columbia. Dr. Ball brings a wealth of practical experience and knowledge of lode and epithermal gold-silver, porphyry copper-gold and related skarn deposits, all of which potentially occur in Ximen’s three 100% owned projects in British Columbia.

Christopher Anderson President and CEO of Ximen states “Ximen is most fortunate to have a geologist of Matt Ball’s caliber join the company. As Ximen moves forward with its plans for underground development and potential bulk sampling, Matt is key to this process.”

On behalf of the Board of Directors,
“Christopher R. Anderson”

Christopher R. Anderson,
President, CEO and Director

Ximen Mining Corp. 604 488-3900

About Ximen Mining Corp.

Ximen Mining Corp. owns 100 percent interest in all three of its precious metal projects located in southern BC.  Ximen`s two Gold projects are The Gold Drop Project and The Brett Epithermal Gold Project. Ximen also owns the Treasure Mountain Silver Project adjacent to the past-producing Huldra Silver Mine.  Currently both the Gold Drop Project and the Treasure Mountain Silver Project are under option agreements. The option partners are making annual staged cash and stocks payments as well as funding the development of these projects.

Ximen is a publicly listed company trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol XIM, in the USA under the symbol XXMMF, and in Frankfurt, Munich, and Berlin Stock Exchanges in Germany under the symbol 1XMA and WKN with the number as A2JBKL.

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Ximen Mining Corp
888 Dunsmuir Street – Suite 888,
Vancouver, B.C., V6C 3K4