Oremex Announces Board and Management Appointments

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jun 01 (MARKET WIRE) --
At its Annual General Meeting held May 29, 2009 the shareholders of
Oremex Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: ORM) approved all resolutions placed
before them by management, including the election of directors, the
appointment of auditor, the reaffirmation of the Company's stock option
plan, the change in location of the registered office, and the amendment
of By-law No. 1 to allow Directors to accept late proxies.

The Shareholders elected John Carlesso, Chris Marcus, David William
Prins, Michael R. Smith and Dr. David A. Terry to serve as directors of
the Company. As of the close of the Meeting, the Company's board is
constituted of a majority of independent directors.

The Board welcomes Dr. Terry as a new Director. His extensive experience
has focused on exploration for a wide spectrum of precious and base metal
deposits throughout North and South America. He specializes in public
company management, international projects, advanced project evaluation,
acquisitions, and design and implementation of exploration programs. In
the course of his career he has held positions with a number of senior
mining companies including Boliden Limited, Westmin Resources Limited,
Hemlo Gold Mines Inc., Cominco Limited and Gold Fields Mining Corporation
as well as spending several years with the British Columbia Ministry of
Energy and Mines. Dr. Terry is a registered professional geoscientist
with more than 20 years of international experience in the mineral
exploration and mining sector. Currently Dr. Terry is an officer and
director of several publicly-listed mineral exploration companies.

Oremex has also appointed Sr. Carlos Pacheco to the fulltime role of
Director of Community Relations for the Tejamen project. Sr. Pacheco has
over 20 years of mining experience in Mexico working for both Mexican
national and Canadian companies and will be based in the Company's office
in Nuevo Ideal. He has experience in both exploration and production
activities, as well as a specialization in dealing with local communities
and the successful resolution of issues that they face.

Also at the meeting, the shareholders appointed KPMG LLP as the Company's
auditors and authorized the Directors to fix the remuneration. The
Company's stock option plan, which provides for the issuance of options
to acquire up to 10% of the Company's issued and outstanding Common
Shares, was reaffirmed. The shareholders approved an amendment to the
Company's articles to change the province of registration from British
Columbia to Ontario, and approved an amendment to By-law No. 1 to allow
Directors to accept late proxies.

About Oremex

Oremex is a Canadian-based exploration company with a focus on the
acquisition and development of mineral properties in Mexico. The
Company's principal properties are the Tejamen and San Lucas properties
located in the State of Durango and the Cuyoaco Property in the State of
Puebla. The Company's most advanced project Tejamen has an inferred
mineral resource of 50.8 million ounces of silver in a total of 22.6
million tonnes grading a silver-equivalent of 69.8 grams per tonne
(Wardrop Engineering Report NI 43-101 compliant April 2006). Snowden
Mining Industry Consultants completed a Preliminary Assessment Study (NI
43-101 compliant October 2006) demonstrating that the project can support
a 10,000 tonne per day open pit, heap leach mining operation.

National Instrument 43-101 requires the following statement: that the
preliminary assessment is preliminary in nature, that it includes
inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative
geologically to have the economic considerations applied to them that
would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves, and there is no
certainty that the preliminary assessment will be realized.

Forward-Looking Statements: The above contains forward-looking statements
that are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties
and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from
those anticipated in our forward-looking statements. Factors that could
cause such differences include: changes in world commodity markets,
equity markets, costs and supply of materials relevant to the mining
industry, change in government and changes to regulations affecting the
mining industry. Forward-looking statements in this release include
statements regarding future exploration programs, operation plans,
geological interpretations, mineral tenure issues and mineral recovery
processes. Although we believe the expectations reflected in our
forward-looking statements are reasonable, results may vary, and we
cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or
achievements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update
forward-looking statements should conditions or opinions change.

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

Contacts:
Oremex Resources Inc.
John Carlesso
Executive Chairman
416-309-4320

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