San Marco Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SMN) (The Company) is pleased to report
that recent exploration efforts at its 5930 hectare, 100% owned gold/silver
Tecomate project in Mexico , has identified several drill targets associated
with potential bulk tonnage style geology and mineralization . Tecomate, located
80 kilometers east of Mazatlan, is an epithermal and low sulphidation system and
is associated with overlapping collapsed calderas in an andesitic package of
Tertiary volcanic of the Lower Volcanic Group.


Chairman Robert Willis stated; "Our original thinking at Tecomate was that a
very dynamic and widespread mineralized system is hosted on the property. So far
initial exploration has confirmed that model. We expect to ramp up our
exploration efforts though scout drilling and more detailed regional
reconnaissance. This is a very large property with numerous known mineralized
occurrences that will be the focus of our exploration."


Surface sampling by a previous owner primarily explored the Main Zone (Tecomate
location map: http://www.sanmarcocorp.com/files/tecomate_loc.pdf) where
continuous chip channel sampling returned up to 42m averaging 0.81 grams per
tonne gold within a corridor of quartz veinlet stockworks in sericitized
volcanics up to 100m wide and 400m long. This area was the focus for artisanal
workings where grab samples from old workings returned gold values up to 22
grams of gold per tonne, from narrow shears within wider sericitized quartz
stockwork zones.


Recently, as drill pad access trails were being constructed as well as limited
reconnaissance sampling, 2 new drill target areas have been identified.
Approximately 1km southeast of the Main Zone , three trenches 100-120m in length
and 100m apart, were constructed in an area where a previous owner had
continuous chip sampled 33m averaging 0.52 grams of gold per tonne and 21.6
grams of silver per tonne. This area has been named the "SE Zone". At the
eastern end of 2 trenches, results include 20.2m of 0.43 grams of gold per tonne
and 15.6 grams of silver per tonne, and 18.0m of 0.89 grams of gold per tonne
and 11.4 grams of silver per tonne. Mineralization continued to the end of the
trench where thick colluvium cover prohibited further hand trenching. At the
west end of these two trenches, intermittent 1 - 2 m samples ranged from 0.50 to
0.85 grams of gold per tonne and 25 to 44 grams of silver per tonne. Again,
thick colluvium limited extending these trenches westward.


Approximately 1.3 km south of the Main Zone and 400m to the west of the above SE
Zone, recent reconnaissance exploration discovered additional old workings where
continuous chip sampling of quartz stockworks and silicified breccia in
sericitized volcanics returned values of 1.35 to 5.65 grams of gold per tonne
and averaged 2.5 grams of gold per tonne and 9.5 grams per tonne silver over
6.1m. This breccia occurs within an envelope of sericitized volcanics containing
quartz veinlet stockwork mineralization that is many tens of meters wide. The
length of this new zone is unknown; however additional workings have been
discovered 400m along trend to the southeast. Sampling of these new areas
continues and reconnaissance work will be escalated using additional geological
personnel. At least four additional known artisanal working areas exist to the
northwest have yet to explored. All currently known workings extend over 4km,
within a 1.5km wide northwest trending structural corridor.


The Company will commence an initial 1200m diamond drill program once drill pads
have been completed. This drill campaign will test at least 3 targets and will
be the first drill program at Tecomate.


San Marco has granted stock options to certain of its directors, employees and
consultants according to the company's Stock Option Plan, to purchase an
aggregate of 765,000 common shares at a price of $0.30 per share for a period of
five years.


The technical information contained in this press release has been based on
information reviewed by San Marco's President, Robert D. Willis, P. Eng., a
'qualified person' for the purpose of National Instrument 43-101, Standards of
Disclosure for Mineral Projects of the Canadian Securities Administrators.
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