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Re:   News Release - Monday, August 17, 2009
      War Eagle Options MAC Property to VM Exploration Ltd.
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Vancouver, British Columbia -- August 17, 2009 - War Eagle Mining
Company Inc. (TSXV - WAR) ("War Eagle" or the "Company") is pleased to
announce it has entered into a binding property option agreement (the
"Agreement") with VM Exploration Ltd. ("VM" or "Optionor"), a
Vancouver-based exploration company, to earn up to a 80% interest in a
mineral property known as the MAC Property (the "Property"), located in
the Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada.

Under the terms of the Agreement, VM will earn up to an 80% interest in
the MAC Property, when the following conditions are met by VM:

1.  incurring a total of $2,000,000 in expenditures on the MAC Property
    ("Expenditures") in accordance with the following schedule:

      o $350,000 on or before the first anniversary of the date of the
        Agreement (the "Effective Date"),

      o an additional $650,000 on or before the second anniversary of
        the Effective Date, and

      o an additional $1,000,000 on or before the third anniversary of
        the Effective Date.

Once VM has incurred $2,000,000 in expenditures on the MAC Property and
has earned a 80% interest in the Property, War Eagle will maintain a
20% carried interest on the Property up until a bankable feasibility
study is complete, after which War Eagle will have a working interest
and will be responsible for additional expenditures. Of this 20%
carried interest, 3.5% will be carried by Eagle Hill Exploration
Corporation, the former optionee of the MAC Property.

War Eagle Mining Company Inc. is a mineral exploration company publicly
traded since 1987 and listed on the TSX Venture Exchange with the
symbol "WAR". The Company is involved in the acquisition, exploration
and, if warranted, development of mineral resource properties. The
Company principal exploration property is the Tres Marias zinc /
germanium property in Mexico.

For additional information please contact:

War Eagle Mining Company Inc.
Terry Schorn, Director
604-606-7979

Email:  info@wareaglemining.com
Website:  www.wareaglemining.com

This news release was prepared by management of War Eagle, which takes
full responsibility for its contents. Neither 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.

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reserved.  For more information visit our website at
http://www.wareaglemining.com/ or send
mailto:news@sweetwatercapital.net
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