SSH Smash Minerals Corp

Smash Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SSH) (the "Company" or "Smash") announces that
a diamond drilling program has commenced to test targets identified by an
exploration program on its 100 percent owned Whiskey Gold Property (the
"Property"), located in the White Gold District of west-central Yukon Territory,
Canada. The Property occupies 4,177 claims covering an area of 846 square
kilometres covering the placer gold-rich Black Hills and Barker creeks.


Since last public reporting, August 17, 2011, an additional 1,992 assays have
been received from soil, rock grab, and channel samples. Year to date, a total
of 11,179 assays have been received.


The following is a summary of these results from the initial targeted zones on
the Property.


Bowmore Zone

Drilling is underway at the Bowmore Prospect targeting a structural intersection
with epithermal-style quartz veins cutting meta-gabbro host-rock coincident with
a 1,300 metre northwest-trending gold-in-soil anomaly. Soil values at Bowmore
range from detection limit to 1.53 g/t Au, including 0.10, 0.17 and 0.26 g/t Au,
in addition to values previously reported.


Bushmills Zone

As reported in the August 11, 2011 news release, trenching at the Bushmills Zone
has uncovered a significant sercite-quartz-pyrite alteration zone at the
intersection of an east-west fault and a north-northwest trending structural
fabric within felsic orthogneiss. Anomalous gold values in grab rock samples up
to 1.3 g/t and a distinct pathfinder element anomaly (silver, lead, molybdenum,
bismuth, and tellurium) in both soil and rock define this zone.


Ben Nevis Zone

The newly defined Ben Nevis zone is a north-trending structural corridor of
brecciated quartz veins and sericitically altered felsic orthogneiss. Gold
mineralization has been identified from soil assays ranging from detection limit
to 0.15 g/t Au with 1.40 g/t Ag. Channel sampling from trenches have returned
encouraging results ranging from detection limit to 0.29 g/t Au. Grab samples of
brecciated quartz veins from within this zone return values from detection limit
to 3.03 g/t Au.


Glen Breton Zone

The Glen Breton zone, two kilometres north along strike of the Bowmore prospect,
is characterized by a north-trending structural lineament containing brecciated
quartz veins, high-density stockwork quartz veining, and strong sericite
alteration of felsic orthogneiss. Disseminated pyrite and secondary copper
mineralization, is focused in brecciated quartz veins and altered wall rock.
Rock samples from the area returned gold values ranging from detection limit to
3.19 g/t Au. Further soil, rock grab, and trench channel assay results are
pending.


Highland Park Zone

The Highland Park zone occurs in the same style of altered and brecciated felsic
orthogneiss and quartz veining characteristic of both, Bushmills and Ben Nevis
zones. Highly anomalous mercury and silver with minor gold identified in soil
from Highland Park may indicate high level mineralization in a vertically zoned
system located in the northeast portion of Smash Minerals' claims. Drilling at
Highland Park is aimed to intercept gold mineralization at depth. The Highland
Park, Glen Breton, and Ben Nevis zones are clearly defined as intersecting
northwest- and east-west-trending magnetic lows interpreted as major structures
that are coincident with brecciated quartz veining and siliceous alteration
mantled by intense sericite-limonite alteration within felsic gneiss host-rock.


Drilling is expected to continue into late September testing several targets.
Bowmore, Bushmills, Ben Nevis, Glen Breton, and Highland Park are ranked on
present data but may be reprioritised following receipt of additional assay
results.


The exploration program is being directed by Adrian Fleming, CEO and a director
of Smash and formerly CEO of Underworld Resources (now Kinross Gold Corp.).
Overall technical guidance for the program including specialist expertise in
geology, geochemistry, and geophysics is being provided by Revelation
Geoscience. A significant proportion of Smash's technical team formerly worked
for Underworld Resources and was responsible for the first discovery in the
White Gold District, Yukon, being the Golden Saddle discovery in 2008.


A comprehensive QA/QC program is in place to monitor precision and accuracy of
the assay results. All soil and rock samples are submitted with certified
reference materials. Soil sample duplicates are routinely collected, and pulp
duplicates are obtained for both soil and rock samples. Soil samples are
analyzed by Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd. using an aqua regia digestion and
a 15 g charge for ridge and spur samples and a 30 g charge for grid samples.
Rock samples are analyzed by SGS Minerals Services. Gold analyses are by fire
assay using a 50 g charge and an atomic absorption spectrometry finish. Gold
assays greater than 3 g/t are routinely re-assayed using a gravimetric finish to
confirm initial atomic absorption results. Both Acme and SGS laboratories are
ISO 9001 accredited.


Phil Smerchanski, P.Geo., Principal Consultant - Geology, Revelation Geoscience
Ltd., is a Qualified Person and has reviewed the technical content of this press
release.


Additional information and maps displaying Smash Minerals' results to date and
the identified drill targets can be viewed on the Company website at:
www.smashminerals.com


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Adrian W. Fleming, CEO and Director

This press release includes "forward-looking statements" including forecasts,
estimates, expectations and objectives for future operations that are subject to
a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the
control of Smash Minerals Corp. Statements regarding mineral exploration
operations and objectives are subject to risk, including, but are not limited
to, exploration and geologic risk, inflation and costs of goods and services,
property title issues and regulatory approvals. Investors are cautioned that any
such statements are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results
or developments may differ materially from those projected in the
forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking information represents
management's best judgment based on information currently available. No
forward-looking statement can be guaranteed and actual future results may vary
materially. Smash Minerals Corp. does not assume the obligation to update any
forward-looking statement, except as required by applicable law.

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