Scorpio Commences Production Mining at the Nuestra Senora Project, Mexico

Vancouver, April 24, 2008 - Scorpio Mining Corporation (TSX:SPM) is pleased to announce the commencement of production mining from the first stope in the Hoag Zone at its 100% owned Nuestra Senora project, Sinaloa State, Mexico. The Hoag Zone has been developed on three levels and stope preparation is virtually complete for long-hole mining.

The first long-hole production blast in Block 10-15 of the Hoag zone was completed on Friday April 18, 2008, and since then long-hole drilling has been completed for the entire block. With this first production blast, block 10-15 is now open on its full width of 20 metres. It is located between levels 10 and 10.5 and contains a total of 21,298 metric tonnes (MT). The first blast of this stope provides an extra 3,866 MT to the stockpiles, which currently contain 79,000 MT. A second stope from the Hoag zone, Block 10-13, is ready and will eventually provide to the operation another 30,804 MT.

Peter J. Hawley, Chairman, CEO comments, "The first long-hole production blast in Block 10-15 represents one more important benchmark the Company has achieved according to schedule and within budget. The development in ore has confirmed the continuity and homogeneity of the mineralization within the Hoag Zone and supports our planned mining method. The production ore will be transported to the current Stockpile #2 at the mill site, which will be processed following mill commissioning from development ore in Stockpile #1. In addition to the Hoag Zone, development and stope preparation is ongoing in the Main NW and Santa Teresa Extension zones, where long-hole and room-and-pillar mining methods will be used. Along with other areas currently being prepared for higher grade selective mining, we are confident that we will achieve full production according to schedule."

President, Mr. D. Roger Scammell, PGeo, is the Company´s Qualified Person for the Nuestra Señora project. Mr. Scammell is responsible for the current exploration and development program and has reviewed the content of this release.


ON BEHALF OF SCORPIO MINING CORPORATION

Peter J. Hawley
Chairman & CEO




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