Bear Creek Grants Incentive Stock Options

VANCOUVER, June 17, 2016  Bear Creek Mining (TSX Venture: BCM / BVL: BCM) ("Bear Creek" or the "Company") announces that the Board of Directors has authorized the grant of 936,000 incentive stock options under its incentive stock option plan to directors, officers and employees of Bear Creek, including an employee performing investor relations activities, at an exercise price of Cdn$2.48 per share, exercisable on or before June 17, 2021.  These options are exercisable for a five-year period and the grant is subject to vesting provisions in accordance with the Company's Stock Option Plan.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

Andrew Swarthout
President and CEO

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

SOURCE Bear Creek Mining Corporation