TintinaGold Begins Drilling The Kugruk, Alaska

TintinaGold Begins Drilling The Kugruk, Alaska, Copper-Iron Project

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VANCOUVER,BC, June 8, 2010 (NewsWireNow) - TintinaGold Resources Inc. ("TintinaGold" or "the Company") (TSX VENTURE:TAU) is pleased to announce that it has commenced drilling on the Company's Kugruk copper-iron project located in northwestern Alaska.


Kugruk Drilling Program

The Company has mobilized a drill rig and crew into a newly expanded camp on its Kugruk copper-iron project located in northwestern Alaska and commenced the drilling program for this season. Drilling operations began on June 6, 2010 and are supported from the historic Independence silver-lead-zinc mining camp. The Independence camp, located roughly in the center of the Kugruk property, was the site of modest silver production in the early 1920s.The company plans a 4,000 meter drilling program this year focused on testing several multi-kilometric scale copper-iron mineralized zones in mostly low relief, tundra-covered area.

The 100% controlled Kugruk Project is located approximately 20 miles from the coast and Kotzebue Sound, and consists of approximately 177,280 acres of Alaska state mining claims in northwest Alaska. The property contains highly magnetic zones along an intrusive-metasediment contact extending for a length of at least 15 kilometers. One of the targets, the Billiken prospect, is a three kilometer long highly magnetic zone which also shows high gravity, low resistivity, and high induced polarization (IP) geophysical responses where a number of shallow drill holes were completed during the mid-1970s Other large zones with low resistivity and high IP geophysical responses are also present at the South Kugruk and Knowles Creek targets. The Company's initial drilling will focus on the Billiken prospect.

The Kugruk property area contains very little exposure, with most geology concealed by thick deposits of windblown silt (loess) and tundra matt cover. However, local copper-in-soil anomalies over the intrusive centers, a copper-iron enriched 'skarn' contact zone between the intrusive and metasediments, and a halo of silver-lead-zinc prospects and gold placer prospects show that Kugruk is a very large scale, zoned intrusive-driven mineral system. Other attractive drill targets in the South Kugruk and Knolwes Creek zones on the Kugruk property include large low resistivity zones with associated high IP and anomalous copper-in-soils geochemistry.

Jerry Zieg, Vice President Exploration for the Company, is a Qualified Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the information of a scientific nature contained in this news release.


About TintinaGold

TintinaGold is a growth company focused on the exploration and development of precious and base metals properties around the world. The Company's experienced management team has assembled an impressive portfolio of gold and base metal projects in Alaska, including the Colorado Creek gold project, located in southwest Alaska approximately 100 miles northwest of the 40 million ounce Donlin Creek project and the Kugruk copper project located 70 miles north of Nome in the northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska, and the Sheep Creek copper-cobalt property in Montana. The Company, in a short period of time, has successfully become one of the most significant gold and base metal explorers in the Tintina Gold Belt � one of the most exciting and prolific gold belts of the world.


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Raj Chowdhry, C.A., President & CEO


Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:

Certain disclosure in this release, including statements regarding the Company's plans for and intentions with respect to exploration of the Company's properties, constitutes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities legislation. In making the forward-looking statements in this release, the Company has applied certain factors and assumptions that the Company believes are reasonable, including that the Company is able to obtain any required government or other regulatory approvals and any required financing to complete the Company's planned exploration activities, that the Company is able to procure equipment and supplies in sufficient quantities and on a timely basis and that actual results of exploration activities are consistent with management's expectations. However, the forward-looking statements in this release are subject to numerous risks, uncertainties and other factors relating to TintinaGold's operation as a mineral exploration company that may cause future results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. Such uncertainties and risks may include, among others, actual results of the Company's exploration activities being different than those expected by management, uncertainties involved in the interpretation of drilling results and geological tests, delays in obtaining required government or other regulatory approvals or financing, inability to procure equipment and supplies in sufficient quantities and on a timely basis, the need for cooperation of First Nations groups, equipment breakdowns and bad weather. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. TintinaGold does not intend, and expressly disclaims any intention or obligation to, update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.



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