Metals News - Nautilus Grants Incentive Stock Options

Nautilus Grants Incentive Stock Options

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Sept. 7, 2010) - Nautilus Minerals Inc. (TSX:NUS)(AIM:NUS) (the "Company" or "Nautilus") announces that it has granted 200,000 incentive stock options to a non-executive director of the Company as remuneration for work undertaken in 2010. The options granted are the same number and price as for the other non-executive directors as announced August 26, 2010.

The options were granted under the Company's Stock Option Plan which was approved by shareholders.

The details regarding the options granted are as follows:

Name	No. of Options	Exercise Price	Vesting Period	Expiry Date
Russell Debney	200,000	C$2.31	20% every six months commencing March 2, 2011	September 2, 2013
Total options granted	200,000
Total options granted

About Nautilus Minerals Inc.

Nautilus is the first company to commercially explore the ocean floor for polymetallic seafloor massive sulphide deposits and is currently developing its first project. The Company's main focus is the Solwara 1 Project, which is located in the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean. Nautilus is listed on the TSX and AIM stock exchanges, and has among its largest shareholders two of the world's leading international resource companies, Teck Resources (6.8%) and Anglo American (11.1%). Metalloinvest, one of the largest and fastest growing mining and metallurgical holding companies in Russia, beneficially owns 21.0% of its shares through Gazmetall Holding (Cyprus) Limited.

For more information please refer www.nautilusminerals.com.

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