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2001 News

November 12, 2001

Sale of 1,000,000 Shares

Candente Resource Corp. (Candente) announces that further to the Company's news release issued November 6, 2001, a group of officers, directors, employees and investors of Candente Resource Corp. have arranged with Bolder Investment Partners Ltd. for the sale of 1,000,000 shares of the Company at a price of $0.16 per share, through the facilities of the Canadian Venture Exchange. The proceeds from this sale will be used to fund a portion of the private placement of 2,000,000 units of Candente Resource Corp. at a price of $0.15.

Candente Summary
Candente is an exploration company with world class projects in Peru. The Company currently has 9.24 million shares out and is fully diluted at just under 13 million shares. Current exploration focus is being concentrated on delineating gold drill targets on the Columbia gold-copper and the El Tigre epithermal gold properties.

For more information visit http://www.candente.com and call (604) 689-1957 or e-mail to mailto:info@candente.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

"Joanne C. Freeze"

Joanne Freeze, P. Geo., President & CEO
Candente Resource Corp.

The Canadian Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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