Sutter Gold Mining Inc. announced that on June 14, 2012 it signed a Mineral Exploration and Purchase Option Agreement that upon exercise will significantly expand the company's holdings in the heart of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt. The 230-acre property adds approximately a mile of strike length contiguous to the company's existing 3.6 miles of mineral holdings including the Lincoln Mine Project and adjacent holdings. The property includes several mines that historically produced approximately 350,000 ounces of gold. Like the Lincoln Mine Project, it was the subject of modern exploration in the 1980's. The Agreement allows the company to conduct mineral exploration along an additional one-mile of strike length contiguous with the company's current mineral holdings. The company already has begun the process of compiling historical mining records and modern mineral exploration data on the new property. Sutter plans to use the mining and exploration records along with core from the modern exploration program and other information to develop a conceptual geologic model. The company will use this model to focus and guide further mineral exploration of the property necessary to develop a modern resource estimate.