Pacific Comox Blasts 2,000 Tonnes of Mineralization at Mabel Property for Larger Leach Tests

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Apr 06 (MARKET WIRE) --
Pacific Comox Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: PCM) reports that
approximately 2,000 tonnes of drill defined mineralization has been
blasted on the Mabel property. This broken mineralization will be crushed
and leached on test pads.

The cyanide leach results for Test # 1 of 2.3 tonnes of Mabel gold/silver
mineralization gave a gold recovery of 77% and silver 59% during a 16 day
leach period and crushed to 1.9 cm (0.75 inches).

A larger Test # 2 with a 12.9 tonne sample of mineralization and crushed
to a smaller size of 1.3 cm or 0.5 inches is now underway. These tests
will provide data for the preliminary economic assessment of gold/silver
production at Mabel using a cyanide leach process and for process design.
Test 2 mineralization is from several gold/silver areas previously
drilled on the Carmelitas zone. The preliminary economic assessment
incorporates the resource estimate for Mabel.

Carmelitas has been an area of concentrated drilling to outline at/near
surface gold/silver mineralization on a tighter drill spacing basis than
Gate or the other 3 zones on Mabel where a significant amount of drilling
has also been completed. To March 2010, excluding the diamond drill
twinned hole program, 195 mineralized holes have been drilled in the
Carmelitas Zone including 46 higher grade holes that averaged 2.9 g/t
gold and 104 g/t silver, with an average mineralized interval of 4.5
meters.

Bhagwat Singh P. Eng. serves as the qualified person (QP) for the
exploration programs under the definitions of National Instrument 43-101.
The geologist on the Mabel program is Cesar Lemas. A split sample of the
feed and tails from the leach test was collected by Company staff and
shipped by Company staff to the ALS Chemex sample preparation facility at
Hermosillo, Sonora which forwards prepared samples to the ALS Chemex
Vancouver facility for assay.

Donald Empey, President

For further information please view the Company web site at
www.pacificcomox.com or the Company filings on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

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that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Contacts:
Pacific Comox Resources Ltd.
Donald Empey
416 977 4653
416 977 8335 (FAX)
dempey@pacificcomox.com
www.pacificcomox.com

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