Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources Limited

ABN 29 070 859 522

Level 5, 10 Market Street

Brisbane QLD 4000

GPO Box 216

Brisbane QLD 4001

Tel: +61 7 3212 6204

Fax: +61 7 3212 6250

ASX Release 15 November 2013

Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources Ltd (ASX: CYU) EXTENSION OF RIGHTS ISSUE TIMETABLE

Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources Ltd (CYU) advises that it has extended the Closing Date of its non-renounceable entitlement offer to eligible shareholders from Monday 25 November 2013 until Monday 2
December 2013. All other arrangements under the Offer remain unchanged. CYU has lodged a Supplementary Prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission earlier today to record this extension of the Offer timetable.

The revised timetable for the Offer is set out below:

Announcement of the Offer

25 October 2013

Prospectus lodged with ASIC and ASX

25 October 2013

Share commence trading on an "ex" basis

29 October 2013

Record Date to determine Entitlements under the Offer

4 November 2013 (7:00pm AEDT)

Prospectus and Entitlement and Acceptance Forms dispatched to Eligible Shareholders

11 November 2013

Opening Date of Offer

11 November 2013 (9:00am AEDT)

Closing Date of Offer

2 December 2013 (5:00pm AEDT)

Expected Date of Allotment of New Shares

10 December 2013

Expected date for commencement of normal trading of New

Shares issued under the Offer on the ASX

11 December 2013

Expected date of dispatch of transaction confirmation statements

12 December 2013

These dates are indicative only and subject to change. The Company reserves the right, subject to the Corporations Act and the Listing Rules, to change any date including to extend the Closing Date of the Offer, to close the Offer early, to accept late acceptances either generally or in particular cases, or to withdraw or reduce the size of the Offer without notice. Any extension of the Closing Date will have a consequential effect on the issue date of New Shares.

Further information

If the Offer is fully subscribed, 61,998,545 New Shares will be issued under the Offer. The New Shares will be issued for $0.04 each. Upon completion of the Offer, the issued capital of the Company will comprise approximately 309,992,728 shares.
Following quotation, the New Shares will rank equally in all respects from the date of allotment with existing quoted shares on issue. Fractional entitlements under the Offer will be rounded up to the nearest whole number.

1

Trading in the New Shares on the ASX is now expected to commence on or about 11 December 2013. An
Appendix 3B applying for quotation of the New Shares will be lodged with ASX separately.
The Company encourages all eligible shareholders to participate in the Offer.

Enquiries:

Mr Paul Williams
Managing Director
61 7 3211 9013
www.cycal.com.au

About CYU

Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources Ltd ("CYU" or "Company") is a resource exploration and development company with project interests in the Mt Isa region of north Queensland, Chile and northern Laos.
CYU's largest shareholder is China Yunnan Copper (Australia) Investment and Development Co Ltd ("CYC"), owning 43% of the total issued shares in CYU. CYC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kunming- based Yunnan Copper Industry (Group) Co Ltd, which is the third largest producer of smelted copper product in China. In turn, Yunnan Copper Group is a subsidiary of Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) which is the largest producer of aluminium product in China and the second largest world-wide.
CYU has offices in Brisbane, Mt Isa and in Santiago. The Company is listed on the ASX under the symbol
"CYU".

2

distributed by