Norsemont Mining Closes Private Placement

Proceeds to be used to advance Constancia Cu-Mo-Ag-Au Project

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TORONTO, ON, and LIMA, Peru, July 10 /CNW/ - Norsemont Mining Inc. (the "Company") (TSX and BVL: NOM) today announced that the Company has closed a non-brokered private placement of 3,000,200 Units at a price of C$4.00 per Unit, raising proceeds of C$12,000,800. Each Unit consists of one common share and one-half of one common-share purchase warrant. Each whole common-share purchase warrant entitles the holder, on exercise, to acquire one additional common share of the Company at an exercise price of C$4.50 per share at any time until the close of business on the day which is two years from the date of issuance of the warrant. The securities issued under the private placement are subject to a four month hold period.

The proceeds from the private placement will be used to purchase surface rights at the Constancia Project, to fund an expanded Cu-Mo-Ag-Au exploration program at the Constancia Project and for general working capital purposes.

The securities sold have not, nor will they be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended or applicable state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of a U.S. person, as such term is defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act, registration or an applicable exemption from U.S. federal and state registration requirements. This release does not constitute an offer for sale of securities in the United States.

About Norsemont Mining

Norsemont Mining is a Canadian mineral exploration and development company focused on the 100%-controlled Constancia Cu-Mo-Ag-Au deposit in southern Peru. The Constancia Project currently has a 43-101 compliant indicated resource of 256.3M tonnes at 0.50% Cu (2.85 Billion lbs Cu) and an inferred resource of 156.5M tonnes at 0.33% Cu (1.15 Billion lbs Cu).

A 43-101 compliant scoping study titled "Preliminary Assessment of the Constancia Project, Department of Cusco, Peru" and dated December 11, 2007 using the previous resource block model anticipates a project producing in excess of 90,000 tonnes of copper annually. That study indicated the project has a net present value of up to $530 million and an internal rate of return of 25.3 percent, both including a 25% contingency. The following long-term commodity price assumptions used in the study: copper $1.80 per pound, molybdenum $12 per pound and silver $11 per ounce. If a revised price deck of copper $2.00 per pound, molybdenum $15 per pound and silver $10.50 per ounce is used in the same Discounted Cash Flow Model the net present value increases to $746 million and an internal rate of return of 31% (including a 25% contingency) based on the 55,000 tpd production case. The full study, dated December 11, 2007, and is available for viewing on SEDAR.

The technical information provided in this press release was reviewed and approved by Robert. W. Baxter (MAusIMM), the President and a director of the Company and a qualified person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101.