Result of AGM

Hochschild Mining PLC
09 May 2008

                                          Hochschild Mining plc ('the Company')

    The Company announces the following results of the poll taken at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today:


                                        FOR                             AGAINST
                               -----------------------       ---------------------
                                                  % of                        % of 
               Description of    Number          Votes         Number        Votes    Total Number     Votes Withheld
Resolution     Resolution      of Votes          Cast*       of Votes        Cast*        of Votes
                               -----------------------       ---------------------
                         

       1       Receipt of     260,253,867      99.96            100,000       0.04     260,353,867            390,990
               2007 Report
               and Accounts
       2       Approve 2007   260,744,857        100                  0          0     260,744,857                  0
               Final
               Dividend
       3       Approve 2007   260,617,848      99.95            126,009       0.05     260,743,857              1,000
               Directors'
               Remuneration
               Report
       4       Re-elect       256,973,857      99.21          2,046,000       0.79     259,019,857                  0
               Roberto
               Danino
       5       Re-elect       233,586,783      99.13          2,046,000       0.87     235,632,783                  0
               Alberto
               Beeck
       6       Re-elect Sir   260,644,857      99.96            100,000       0.04     260,744,857                  0
               Malcolm
               Field
       7       Re-appoint     260,491,193      99.92            198,529       0.08     260,689,722             55,135
               Ernst &
               Young LLP as
               auditors
       8       Authorise      260,643,877      99.96            101,000       0.04     260,744,877                  0
               the Audit
               Committee to
               set
               Auditors'
               Remuneration
       9       Authorise      260,702,497      99.99              1,360       0.01     260,703,857             41,000
               Directors to
               Allot Shares
      10       Approve        259,973,554      99.78            578,628       0.22     260,552,182            192,675
               Hochschild
               Mining plc
               Long-Term
               Incentive
               Plan
      11       Disapply       260,702,497      99.99              1,360       0.01     260,703,857             41,000
               Pre-emption
               Rights
      12       Authorise      260,744,857        100                  0          0     260,744,857                  0
               the Company
               to make
               market
               purchases of
               own shares
      13       Amend          260,603,857      99.96            100,000       0.04     260,703,857             41,000
               Articles of
               Association
               with
               immediate
               effect
      14       Amend, with    260,603,857      99.96            100,000       0.04     260,703,857             41,000
               effect from
               1 October
               2008,
               provisions
               of the
               Articles of
               Association
               concerning
               Directors'
               conflicts of
               interests

                                                                                 *excluding Votes Withheld

In accordance with LR 9.6.2R the full text of resolutions 10, 12, 13 and 14 have
been submitted to the FSA for publication through the Document Viewing Facility
located at Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf,
London, E14 5HS (tel. [phone]).



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