Tintina Resources Inc. ("Tintina" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:TAU) is pleased
to announce that it has received additional preliminary assay results from the
2011 drill program on its Sheep Creek Copper-Cobalt-Silver property ("Sheep
Creek") located in Central Montana, USA (see Image 1 & 2). 


Highlights from the Lower Copper Zone (LCZ) at Strawberry Butte:



--  Drill hole SC11-029 drilled 4.50 meters grading 11.4% Cu, 0.19% Co, 8.0
    g/tonne Ag and 0.3 g/tonne Au. 
    
    

--  Drill hole SC11-048 drilled 6.61 meters grading 8.0% Cu, 0.10% Co, 7.2
    g/tonne Ag, and 0.8 g/tonne Au. 



The Company has completed infill and fringe drilling of the LCZ massive sulfide
in the Strawberry Butte mineralized area and has received results from drill
holes SC11-029, SC11-031, SC11-032, and SC11-048 (see Table 1 below). The
results of this drill campaign will be used along with the historic drilling to
form the basis of an Inferred Resource estimate expected later this year. These
results confirm the persistent high copper grades throughout the LCZ as well as
better establish the location of faults which bound the northern and southern
margins of the depositional basin. 




Table 1 - Strawberry Butte Lower Copper Zone Drill Intersections            
                                                                            
                     From       To  Width  Width     Cu     Co     Ag     Au
Hole                  (m)      (m)    (m)   (ft)      %      %  (g/t)  (g/t)
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Lower Copper Zone                                                           
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SC11-029           437.00   441.50   4.50   14.8  11.39   0.19    8.0    0.3
SC11-031           459.70   460.36   0.66    2.2   3.66   0.02    5.0    0.1
SC11-032           374.51   375.72   1.21    4.0   0.47   0.01    4.0    0.0
SC11-048(i)        356.87   367.60  10.73   35.2   5.27   0.06    4.8    0.5
(i)includes        360.99   367.60   6.61   21.7   7.95   0.10    7.2    0.8
                                                                            
(For previous Tintina Resources and historic results on the Lower Copper    
Zone at Strawberry Butte please see News Releases dated January 6, February 
3, and April 26, 2011)                                                      



Tintina Resources has also completed in-fill drilling of the Upper Copper Zone
(UCZ) massive sulfide at Strawberry Butte with the objective of bringing the UCZ
Inferred Resource to Measured & Indicated status. The UCZ remains open to the
south, east and west and drilling continues in order to determine its full
extent. The Company has also initiated resource definition drilling on both the
Lower Copper Zone and Middle Copper Zone massive sulfides zones in the
Strawberry East target area with the objective of further expanding the total
resource base for the Sheep Creek property. In addition, the Company has
initiated a Preliminary Economic Assessment on the UCZ at Strawberry Butte to
determine project economics and has started collecting environmental baseline
information in preparation for an environmental assessment report and project
permitting. 


Jerry Zieg, Vice President of 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. Assays for
this program have been completed by ALS Chemex including duplicates, standards,
and blanks for QA/QC purposes.


About Tintina

Tintina Resources is a growth company focused on the exploration and development
of precious and base metal properties around the world. The Company's
experienced Board of Directors and Management Team, having completed the
verification drilling on the Sheep Creek copper-cobalt massive sulfide property
in Montana, U.S.A., are focused on additional exploration drilling and advancing
the project towards production. The Company is also exploring an impressive
portfolio of gold and base metal projects in Alaska, including the Colorado
Creek gold project located in southwest Alaska in the same region as the 40
million ounce Donlin Creek project.


The growth and success of the Company comes from Tintina's experienced
exploration team and its ability to forge collaborative relationships and
partnerships with Native Alaskan and First Nations groups, local communities,
major mining companies and regulators.


About Sheep Creek 

The Sheep Creek deposit is located about 27 km north of White Sulphur Springs
along a well maintained gravel road and within two miles of U.S. Highway 89. The
Sheep Creek property consists of approximately 9,350 acres of fee simple lands
and mining claims in central Montana. The property contains sediment-hosted
zones of massive sulfide mineralization originally explored by Cominco American
Inc. and BHP during the 1980's and early 1990's. Historical drilling encountered
significant zones of strata-bound copper sulfide with cobalt in multiple bedded
pyrite zones in the lower part of the Precambrian Belt Supergroup; this same
stratigraphic unit hosts the Sullivan zinc-lead-silver deposit in southeastern
B.C. The Company, in a remarkably short period of time, has been able to produce
an Inferred Resource on the Upper Copper Zone at Strawberry Butte (please see
the Company's News Release dated January 6, 2011). A minimum of four additional
known tabular mineralized zones, within a four kilometer strike length, will be
drill-tested over the course of 2011.


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Louis A. Lepry, Jr., 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 Sheep Creek property, 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 government or other regulatory
approvals and any financing required 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, that the Company's
exploration activities on the Sheep Creek property will not be affected by
actions of environmental activists or other special interest groups 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 Tintina's
operation as a mineral exploration company and the Sheep Creek property that may
cause future results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in
such forward-looking statements. Such uncertainties and risks 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 or inability to
obtain required government or other regulatory approvals or financing,
interference with Tintina's exploration activities by environmental activists or
other special interest groups, inability to procure equipment and supplies in
sufficient quantities and on a timely basis, 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. Tintina Resources Inc. 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.


To view "Image 1 - Sheep Creek, MT, USA" and "Image 2 - Plan Map of Sheep Creek
Strawberry Butte Mineralized Target, Montana, USA", please visit the following
link: 


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