Cigma Metals Corporation Announces Maiden Resources of 288,886 Ounces of Gold at Berezki East Gold Deposit in

ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN, Mar 30 (MARKET WIRE) --
Cigma Metals Corporation (the "Company," "Cigma") (PINKSHEETS: CGMX)
(FRANKFURT: C9KA) is pleased to announce a maiden Inferred Resource for
Berezki East prospect in Kazakhstan.

HIGHLIGHTS

-- Berezki East Deposit is a part of large-scale gold-copper-porphyry
mineralization system
-- Berezki East Deposit ore resources of 18.6 million tonnes grading at

-- 0.48 g/t for 288,886 oz of contained gold
-- 1.06 g/t for 636,316 oz of contained silver
-- 0.1% for 15,835 tonnes of contained copper

-- Deposit remains open along strike and at depth - aggressive
exploration campaign continues

During 2008, the Company completed 12 diamond drill holes (DDH) for a
total of 3,950 meters with an average drill hole depth of 330 meters. The
drilling program targeted the outer zone of a large gold-copper porphyry
system. The drilling confirmed over 420 meters of continuity for the
mineralization zone along strike with an average width of approximately 50
meters and reaching 80 meters in places (Figure 3). It has been traced
down to a depth of 350 meters and remains open both on strike and depth.
The oxidation zone extends from surface down to 40 meters and could be
suitable for free-milling heap-leach gold-silver-copper extraction.

The Australasian Joint Ore Reserves Committee (the "JORC") code compliant
Resources have been based on a 0.10 g/t natural lower gold cut-off grade
defined by the statistical analysis and were estimated by Micromine Pty
Ltd. Copper and silver have been defined as by-products. The estimate is
based on the results of Cigma's drilling and sampling campaign which
extended the previously defined mineralized zones, discovered new
mineralized zones and validated historical sampling data from Soviet
exploration programs. 14 drill holes and 2 trenches both recent and
historic were included for the resource estimation. A summary of the
resource estimate is presented in Table 1 and more detailed notes on
methodology applied are provided at the end of this announcement.

Table 1: Summary of the Resources for the Berezki East Deposit
Au
Cut Au Ag
Off Oxide Tonnes Au Ag Cu Metal Metal Cu
From Zone '000 t g/t g/t % Oz Oz Tonnes
---- -------- ------ ---- ---- ----- ------- ------- ------
0.0 Fresh 17,252 0.43 1.07 0.08 236,809 592,947 13,389
Oxidised 1,352 1.20 1.00 0.18 52,077 43,369 2,446
Total 18,604 0.48 1.06 0.09 288,886 636,316 15,835
0.1 Fresh 17,007 0.43 1.07 0.08 236,120 585,961 13,229
Oxidised 1,352 1.20 1.00 0.18 52,077 43,369 2,446
Total 18,360 0.49 1.07 0.09 288,197 629,330 15,675
0.2 Fresh 10,995 0.58 1.11 0.09 206,530 391,673 10,057
Oxidised 891 1.75 1.02 0.24 50,110 29,077 2,170
Total 11,887 0.67 1.10 0.10 256,640 420,751 12,227
0.3 Fresh 7,257 0.76 1.14 0.11 177,256 267,003 7,743
Oxidised 826 1.87 1.02 0.26 49,581 27,084 2,131
Total 8,083 0.87 1.13 0.12 226,837 294,087 9,873
0.4 Fresh 5,109 0.93 1.10 0.12 153,184 180,532 6,222
Oxidised 816 1.89 1.02 0.26 49,480 26,761 2,117
Total 5,925 1.06 1.09 0.14 202,664 207,294 8,339
0.5 Fresh 4,050 1.06 1.07 0.13 137,975 139,759 5,263
Oxidised 784 1.95 1.02 0.26 49,012 25,701 2,055
Total 4,834 1.20 1.07 0.15 186,987 165,460 7,318

Berezki East Deposit - Primary Geology and Infrastructure

Berezki East is a gold-copper-porphyry deposit. The deposit area is
composed of strongly hydrothermaly altered volcanic and intrusive rocks
with numerous geochemical gold-copper anomalies. The gold-copper
mineralization is associated with pyrite and chalcopyrite within
wide-spread zones of chlorite-epidotic alteration.

Berezki East is a part of a large-scale K-OZEK gold-copper-porphyry system
with total area of 15km2 (Figure 2). Beside Berezki East the K-OZEK area
comprises five other high-prospective gold-copper deposits with
exploration potential over three million ounces of gold equivalent.

K-OZEK mineralization is a typical gold-copper-porphyry system. The
presented figures are in line with many world class copper deposits that
are actually in production. Porphyry-related deposits control over 70% of
world copper resources. This type of mineralization is characterized by
large dimensions and relatively low grades. Since 1980th several
gold-copper mines world-wide have been producing copper-gold concentrates
from ores grading 0.5g/t to 1.0g/t of gold equivalent. The ore resources
of such deposits usually extend hundred of million tonnes.

Dostyk project of 14,000 km2 (Figure 1) is located in the North Eastern
region of Kazakhstan near to the Russian and Chinese border.
Infrastructure is just perfect with sealed roads and railways crossing
the license area. Power lines with voltage up to 1,150 kW cross the
project area. The region has been mined for gold, base metals, nickel,
coal and others.

Resource Modeling Methodology

1. Database Compilation

The supplied data consisted of:

-- 2 historic drill holes
-- 12 recent drill holes
-- 2 trenches

2. Classical Statistical Analysis

The classical statistical analysis was performed for gold values, since
gold is the major element and has the primary interest of the exploration
program. The analysis demonstrated mixing grade populations. Micromine
Consulting made a decision to interpret mineralisation with 0.1 g/t (low
grade domain) and 0.5 g/t (high grade domain) cut off grades that also
correlate with the Dostyk's domaining of the deposit into two zones.

3. Interpretation

Grade composites were created for the selected cut off grades to assist
with the interpretation. The composite intervals were displayed along the
drillhole traces and used for the interpretation. The minimum composite
length was selected as 1 m, and the maximum consecutive interval of waste
material was selected as 5 m.

Interpretation was carried out interactively for about 7 cross sections.

4. Wireframing

The interpreted strings were used to generate three-dimensional solid
wireframes for the mineralised envelopes.

5. Analytical data selection and compositing

Drillhole data selection is a standard procedure, which ensures that the
correct samples are used in the classical statistical and geostatistical
analyses and grade interpolation processes. For this purpose, the solid
wireframes for each mineralised envelope were subsequently used to select
the drillhole samples. Samples were selected for individual mineralised
envelopes and flagged accordingly.

Classical statistical analysis was then repeated for those gold grades
within the mineralised envelopes. The analysis did not demonstrate any
gold grade mixing.

6. Block Modeling

Block modeling included several stages. Firstly, the empty block models
were created within the closed wireframe models for the mineralised
envelopes for the cut off grade. The resultant models were subsequently
coded and added together into a single model file. The block model was
then restricted with the topography (DTM) surface and all the model cells
above the surface were deleted from the model file.

7. Grade Interpolation

All element grades were interpolated into the empty block model using the
Inverse Distance Weighting method. Due to the different spatial gold
distribution in the oxidation and the fresh zones the grade interpolation
was performed for each zone individually.

Cigma Metals Corporation is a mineral exploration company focusing on the
exploration and development of its mineral exploration property located in
the Pavlodar province of Kazakhstan and its two exploration properties in
the Tomsk province of Russia. All the project areas were selected due to
their proximity to a well-developed infrastructure, known mineral
occurrences and from historical records of gold and base metals
production. The Company's stock is quoted for trading in the United States
of America on the OTC Pink Sheets under the symbol "CGMX.PK," and under
the symbol "C9KA.F" on the Frankfurt Exchange, in Germany.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

"Agustin Gomez de Segura"
Agustin Gomez de Segura
President, CEO and Director

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For further information please contact
Agustin Gomez de Segura:
Address: 18, 80 Furmanova Str,
Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan
Telephone: Almaty Office +7 327 2611 026
Website: http://www.cigmametals.com

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