Talvivaaran Kaivososakeyhtiö Oyj - Decisions of general meeting

Resolutions of Annual General Meeting

Talvivaara Mining Company Plc (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that, at
the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 3:00 pm on 28 April 2009, all
the resolutions proposed, as set out in the notice of the meeting to
shareholders dated 17 March 2009, were duly passed. 

The resolutions included:

• that the number of Board members remain seven and that Mr. Gordon Edward
Haslam, Ms. Eileen Carr and Ms. Saila Miettinen-Lähde, who retire by rotation
pursuant to the articles of association, be re-appointed as directors of the
Company; 

• that article 6.2 of the Company's articles of association, limiting the
borrowing powers of the Board of Directors, be amended so that the maximum
borrowing powers are defined as an amount higher of the sum of twice the
Company's capital and reserves and 600 million euros; and 

• that the Board of Directors be authorised to repurchase a maximum of
10,000,000 of the Company's own shares through public trading, and to convey a
maximum of 10,000,000 of the Company's own shares, each in deviation of the
pre-emptive rights of shareholders. 

ENQUIRIES

Talvivaara Mining Company Plc Tel: +358 20 7129 800
Pekka Perä
Saila Miettinen-Lähde

Merlin Tel: +44 207 653 6620
Tom Randell
Anca Spiridon