Release # 5 - 2010

Vancouver, B.C. Monument Mining Limited (TSX-V: MMY and FSE: D7Q1) “Monument” or the “Company” reports that new CIL (Carbon in Leach) tank agitators have been received and installed at the CIL circuit of the gold treatment plant at its 100% owned Selinsing Gold Mine Project in Pahang State, Malaysia. Commissioning of the CIL circuit is now in its final stages and the Company is preparing for full commercial production. 

Construction of the gold treatment plant with 400,000 tons annual capacity was fully completed in December 2009. Since then the gravity circuit of the plant has continued to operate at designed capacity and has produced a total of 18,800 ounces of gold. New agitators have now been installed in the CIL circuit and are performing satisfactorily. They replace the defective ones that were the cause of the delay in start up of the CIL circuit. The operation of the full plant is progressively meeting designed specifications. The Company is fast tracking towards commercial production. 

Financing Update

Monument continues to work with the lenders and it is Management’s opinion that the previously announced $12 million financing will be closed within the next couple of weeks. Upon the closing of the financing, Monument will recommence its exploration activities; close the acquisition of additional exploration lands and update the NI43-101 report for the Damar Buffalo Reef Prospect.

About Monument Mining Limited

Canadian based Monument Mining Limited has two wholly-owned principal properties: Selinsing Gold Mine Project (“Selinsing”); and Damar Buffalo Reef Prospect (“Buffalo Reef”); which are located in Pahang State in the Central Gold Belt District of Malaysia.

Under the Selinsing project the gravity section of the gold processing plant has commissioned and has since late 2009 produced more than 20,000 ounces of gold to date. Commissioning of the remaining CIL section of the plant is expected to be completed soon, upon which the Company is prepared to announce a commercial production. The gold treatment plant has capacity of 400,000 tpa targeted to produce up to 40,000 ounces of gold per year. The capacity is expected to be doubled in future by adding an additional mill to the existing plant. Please visit our website at www.monumentmining.com for more information.

Please visit our website at www.monumentmining.com for more information.

Robert F. Baldock, President and CEO
Monument Mining Limited
Suite 910- 688 West Hastings Street
Vancouver B.C. Canada V6B 1P1


For further information contact:
Monument Mining Limited
Richard Cushing
Investor Relations
(Tel) +1 604 638 1661 ext. 102
(Fax) +1 604 638 1663
rcushing@monumentmining.com
www.monumentmining.com

CHF Investor Relations
Robin Cook
Senior Account Manager
(Tel) 1-416-868-1079 ext. 228
(Fax) 1-416-868-6198
robin@chfir.com
www.chfir.com

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(Fax) +49 711 25 35 92 55
wolfgang.seybold@axino.de
www.axino.de

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Forward-Looking Statement
This news release contains forward-looking statements about Monument Mining Limited (“Monument”), its business and future plans. Forward- looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and include the timing of the proposed programs and events. The forward-looking statements in this news release are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results or achievements to different materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks and certain other factors include, without limitation, the estimated cash cost per ounce of gold production and the estimated cash flows which may be generated from the operations, general economic factors and other factors that may be beyond the control of Monument. statements regarding the future price of gold; the estimation of mineral resources; conclusions of economic evaluation (including scoping studies); the realization of mineral resource estimates; the timing and amount of estimated future production, development and exploration; costs of future activities; capital and operating expenditures; success of exploration activities; mining or processing issues; currency exchange rates; government regulation of mining operations; and environmental risks. Generally, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward- looking terminology such as “plans”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “intends”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to: general business, economic, competitive, geopolitical and social uncertainties; the actual results of current exploration activities; foreign operations risks; other risks inherent in the mining industry and other risks described in the annual information form of the Company, which is available under the profile of the Company on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward- looking information. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.