SMN Sun Summit Minerals Corp

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.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Contacts: San Marco Resources Inc. Robert D. Willis Chairman & CEO 604-813-2606 rdwillis@telus.net San Marco Resources Inc. Mike Mallard 604-506-3776 mmallard@sanmarcocorp.com www.sanmarcocorp.com