Bear Creek Grants Incentive Stock Options

VANCOUVER, Feb. 16, 2017 /CNW/ - Bear Creek Mining (TSX Venture: "BCM") ("Bear Creek" or the "Company") announces that its Board of Directors has authorized and approved the grant of 1,050,500 incentive stock options under its incentive stock option plan (the "Stock Option Plan") to directors, officers and employees of Bear Creek, including an employee performing investor relations activities, at an exercise price of Cdn $2.73 per share, exercisable on or before February 16, 2022 and subject to vesting provisions in accordance with the 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.

SOURCEBear Creek Mining Corporation

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