SUTTER GOLD MINING INC. T S X - V X :   S G M Suite 410 - 325 Howe St., Vancouver, BC Canada V6C 1Z7 • Tel: 604-687-3520 • Fax: 604-688-3392 12^th April 2005    NR05-04 Sutter Gold grants stock options Vancouver  B.C.,  Sutter  Gold  Mining  Inc.  (TSX-VX:  SGM)  announces  that  it  has  issued  stock  options  to  its directors, officers and consultants for a total of 3,160,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.28 per share for a period of five years, expiring on April 8, 2010. About Sutter Gold Mine    The Sutter Gold project is situated on a contiguous 535-acre block of mining claims 45 miles east-southeast of Sacramento, Calif., in the central part of the 121-mile-long Mother Lode gold belt. The Sutter Gold property itself has had recorded production of 1,324,000 ounces of gold, essentially all of this prior to 1920, and this recovery was from the Wildman, Mahoney, Lincoln, South Spring Hill, Keystone and Medean Mines.   The Sutter Gold project has been the subject of considerable modern exploration activity, most of it centering on the Lincoln and Comet zones, which are adjacent to each other and together referred to as the Lincoln project. A total  of  85,085  feet  of  drilling  have  been  accomplished  in  190  diamond  drill  holes,  and  modern  underground development consists of a 2,850-foot declined ramp with 2,400 feet of crosscuts plus four raises. For additional information, please contact: Hal Herron, CEO, 307-856-9271 or via e-mail at hal@usnrg.com Mr. John Kuehne, SmallCap Corporate Partners by telephone at 1-866-380-2274 or via email at john@smallcap.ca. The TSX Venture Exchange has in no way passed upon the merits of the proposed transaction and has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release.