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Minera IRL Limited

("Minera IRL" or "the Company")

Grant of Options

London, 18 November, 2009: Minera IRL (AIM: MIRL), the South American precious metals mining company, announces that on 17 November 2009 a total of 2,300,000 options over ordinary shares of nil par value in the Company ('Options') were granted to certain Directors and executives, pursuant to the Minera IRL Limited Incentive Stock Option Scheme ('Scheme'), which was approved by shareholders on 29 November 2006.

The Options are exercisable at 91.25p per share, which represents a 25 per cent. premium on the closing price of 73p on the AIM market on the 16 November, and will vest immediately.  The Options shall expire after 5 years from the date of grant.

Following the grant, the interests of Directors in Options is as follows:

                                                  Director Options granted        Resultant Option holding

C C Chamberlain                                     750,000                               3,000,000

D A Jones                                                100,000                                   250,000

G D Ross                                                   50,000                                  125,000

Total                                                        900,000                                 3,375,000

The Scheme permits the grant of options up to a maximum of 10 per cent. of the total number of ordinary shares in issue (including options exercised, but excluding options that have lapsed). This grant represents options over approximately 3 per cent of the current 75,807,882 ordinary shares of the Company in issue. The total number of options granted to date which are still outstanding is 6,430,000 representing approximately 8.5 per cent of the total number of ordinary shares in issue.

For more information contact:

Minera IRL                  Courtney Chamberlain, Executive Chairman Trish Kent, Vice President, Corporate Relations		+511 4181230
Arbuthnot Securities (Nominated Adviser & Broker, London)		+ 44 (0)20 7012 2000
John Prior  Edward Burbidge
Fox-Davies Capital		+ 44 (0)20 7936 5200
David Poraj-Wilczynski Jason Bahnsen
Bankside Consultants (Financial PR, London)		+ 44 (0)20 7367 8888
Simon Rothschild
Louise Mason
Synergy Asociados (Public Relations, Lima)		+ 511 628 6300
Magaly Villena		+ 511 99855 2232

Minera IRL Limited ("MIRL") is the AIM and BVL, Lima, Peru listed holding company of precious metals mining and exploration companies focused in Latin America. MIRL is led by an experienced senior management team with extensive industry experience, particularly in operating in South America. The Group operates the Corihuarmi Gold Mine and the emerging Ollachea Gold Project in Peru.

www.minera-irl.com

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