Tumi Intersects 24.4m Grading 6.4 g/t Gold and 1,629 g/t Silver at La Trini, Mexico
Vancouver, Canada. Tumi Resources Limited ("Tumi" and/or "the Company") (TSXv-TM; OTCBB - TUMIF;
Frankfurt - TUY). David Henstridge, President of Tumi, reports that reverse-circulation drill-hole TRCC 32 drilled to a
depth of 186m, intercepted 24.4m grading 6.4 g/t gold and 1,629 g/t silver from a depth of 130m below surface. See
Table 1 on page 3 for all drill results.
Since 2005, the Company has been advancing the development of its 100%-owned La Trini silver-gold project in Jalisco,
Mexico. To date, the Company has drilled 35 reverse-circulation drill holes totalling 4,112m in two drill campaigns. The
Company's phase-two drill program has been focused on better defining the mineralized core zone and
establishing where future detailed drilling should occur.
Said Mr. Henstridge: "The results from TRCC 32 are significant and have identified an area where we will be focusing our
future work program. As part of the phase-two drill program a number of step-out holes were drilled up to 900m west and
600m east from the mineralized core zone to test the extensions of the rhyolite host rock, but these drill holes did not
intersect any significant mineralization. Drill-hole 32 is located 150m north of the limits of the old underground workings
within the core area, and mineralization intersected may represent a newly discovered bonanza zone."
Drilling, coupled with the surface and underground sampling programs in and adjacent to the main target area, has
defined a 400m-long northerly trending mineralized zone. The zone is 200m wide and remains open down-dip to the
north. Within this zone there appears to be a higher grade corridor along the eastern edge, possibly adjacent to a major
fault zone. Selected intervals from both drill programs within the higher grade zone include TRRC 6 (18.3m at 3.1 g/t Au
and 150 g/t Ag), TRRC 9 (6.1m at 1.1 g/t Au and 201 g/t Ag), TRRC 10 (10.1m at 1.6 g/t Au and 130 g/t Ag), TRRC 11
(5.1m at 5 g/t Au and 184 g/t Ag) and TRRC 32. The table of all drill intercepts from both drill programs in the mineralized
core zone along with a drawing showing the drill-hole locations and extent of the zone also appear on the Company's
website, www.tumiresources.com under Projects/La Trini.
Mr. Henstridge added: "The results from TRRC 32 have identified an exploration target which requires immediate further
drill testing. We are planning a phase-three program of closely spaced drilling to define the size and orientation of this
high-grade zone further and to define the extent of the main zone. We will schedule this program after a short break at
the end of the Company's Phoenix drill program currently underway in Sonora."
Grab sample checks of the high-grade intervals from the stored drill samples have returned comparable results, and
polished sections made from two of the samples has identified argentite (silver sulphide) grains, locally rimmed with native
silver, jalpaita (a silver-copper sulphide) and native gold. It should be noted that due to the nature of RC drilling and the
lack of nearby data, geological interpretation of the extent and true thickness of mineralized drill intercepts remains
uncertain.
The qualified person for Tumi's projects, David Henstridge, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
and a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, has visited the Company's projects in Mexico and has verified
the contents of this news release.
Quality Control: RC drill samples were collected on 2.03m intervals. Each sample was split on site using a Jones splitter and stored for later use. The site geologist subsequently selected the intervals to be sampled, and the entire interval was run through the Jones splitter twice more to aidhomogenization. One-half of this interval was split further to a nominal 5 kg size and sent to Sonora Sample Preparation, S.A. de C.V. in Hermosillo
