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News > Metminco Limited Takeover Bid for Hampton Mining Limited Extensions of Offer Period for Share Offer

We attach a notice in accordance with section 650D of the Corporations Act 2001("Act") being a notice of variation stating that Metminco Limited ("Metminco") hastoday extended the offer period in relation to the Share Offer made under its off-markettakeover bid in relation to Hampton Mining Limited ("Hampton").

The period for acceptance of the Share Offer of 4 Metminco shares for every HamptonShare is extended from 26 June 2009 to 8 July 2009.

The offer periods for the Apr 09 Option Offer and the Mar 09 Option Offer have closed.

For the purpose of ASX Listing Rule 3.2, Metminco confirms that:

(a) at the date of the offers, being 10 December 2008, Metminco and itsassociates did not have a relevant interest in any Hampton securities;

(b) at the date of this offer extension, Metminco has received acceptances fromHampton Shareholders for 72,381,611 shares, or 34.8% of the issued capitalof Hampton and accordingly has a relevant interest in those Hamptonsecurities.

Date: Friday 19 Jun 2009