Thunder Mountain Gold Grants Stock Options

Boise, ID, December 05, 2012 /FSC/ - Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc. (TSX-V: THM; OTCQB: THMG), (the Company) announced today that it has granted incentive stock options to certain directors and officers of the Company to purchase 990,000 common shares in the capital stock of the Company pursuant to its shareholder approved Stock Option Plan. The options are exercisable on or before December 4, 2017 at a price of $0.10 per share.


About Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc.

Thunder Mountain Gold, a junior gold exploration company founded in 1935, holds a 100% interest in several U.S. gold projects. The Company's principal assets are The South Mountain Project - a historic former producer of gold, silver, zinc, lead, and copper, located in southern Idaho, just north of the Nevada border, and their Trout Creek Project - a grass roots gold target in the Eureka-Battle Mountain trend of central Nevada, currently under Joint Exploration Agreement with Newmont Gold. For more information on Thunder Mountain, please visit the Company's website at www.Thundermountaingold.com.


U.S. Securities Act of 1933

This press release does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities.


Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are based on the beliefs of management and reflect the Company's current expectations. The forward-looking statements in this press release also include information relating to the intention of the Company to complete the Acquisition and the completion of the private placements contemplated in connection with the Acquisition and disclosed in this press release. The forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions, which could change materially in the future, including the assumption that the non-binding Letter of Intent will lead to a definitive agreement, that the transactions contemplated in the Letter of Intent will be completed, and that the Company will successfully complete the Joint Venture. By their nature, forward-looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such factors include the risk that the Letter of Intent may be terminated, that the transaction contemplated in the Letter of Intent may not result in a binding definitive agreement and any agreement may have terms and conditions different from those contemplated in the Letter of Intent, that the Joint Venture may not be completed, and the Company may not advance the South Mountain Project contemplated in this press release. There can be no assurance that forward-looking information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is provided as of the date of this press release, and the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances, except as required in accordance with applicable laws.


Cautionary Note to Investors

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") permits mining companies, in their filings with the SEC, to disclose only those mineral deposits that a company can economically and legally extract or produce.



For further information, please contact:

Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc.
Eric Jones, President and C.E.O.
Email: eric@thundermountaingold.com
Phone: (208) 658-1037

Jim Collord, Vice President and C.O.O.
Email: jim@thundermountaingold.com

THUNDER MOUNTAIN GOLD INC.
5248 W. Chinden Blvd.
Boise, Idaho 83714
Telephone: (208) 658-1037
Fax: (208) 322-5626