9.0 g/tonne Gold and 118 g/tonne Silver Over 6 Meters Starting at 2 Meters Reported on Mabel Property Mexico in Recent Diamond Drilling Program to Sup

Wed Sep 9, 4:33 PM

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Sept. 9, 2009) - Pacific Comox Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: PCM.V) reports assays for 27 of 43 diamond drill holes (1,003 meters) completed on the Carmelitas Zone of the Mabel property in northern Sonora State, Mexico. Almost all the holes drilled on Mabel previous to this program were reverse circulation. In the current program 27 diamond drill holes twinned selected reverse circulation holes in all areas of the Carmelitas Zone. The holes tested a number of stronger and weaker mineralized areas. They provide additional required structural data for the completion of a N. I. 43-101 compliant resource estimate.

The calculated mineralized intervals for the holes which reported significant mineralization are given in Table 1. A number of holes which tested weakly mineralized areas were also generally weakly mineralized. A statistical comparison of the diamond drill holes and the previous reverse circulation drill holes will be provided in the N. I. 43-101 report.

Diamond drill hole DDH029 in this program, as given in Table 1, returned strong results of 9.0 g/tonne gold and 118 g/tonne silver over a 6 meter interval starting at 2 meters in the hole.

Carmelitas has been an area of concentrated drilling to outline at/near surface gold/silver mineralization on a tighter drill spacing basis than the other 4 zones on Mabel where a significant amount of drilling has also been completed. To September 2009, excluding the current diamond drill program, 195 mineralized holes have been drilled in the Carmelitas Zone including 46 higher grade holes that averaged 2.9 g/tonne gold and 104 g/tonne silver, with an average mineralized interval of 4.5 meters.

Pacific Comox has drilled 611 holes, mainly reverse circulation, on the Mabel property totalling 12,546 meters in addition to the current diamond drill program. All the zones which have been drilled have returned holes or widely spaced clusters of holes which offer significant exploration potential. For example, 11 contiguous but widely spaced holes in the Gate North area have averaged 1.6 g/tonne gold and 78 g/tonne silver over average mineralized intervals of 5 meters with an average spacing of about 50 meters. More closely spaced drilling is needed to assess the economic potential of the zones. In the current campaign 15 holes were drilled on Gate Zone and will be reported when repeat assays are received. One hole tested an EM geophysics anomaly adjacent to Carmelitas.

It is planned to follow the current resource estimate with a preliminary economic assessment of the project based on the completed metallurgical test work and the resource estimate.

Bhagwat Singh P. Eng. serves as the qualified person (QP) for the sampling and exploration programs under the definitions of National Instrument 43-101. The geologist on the Mabel program is Cesar Lemas. For the RC drill program the product was bagged separately for each meter of drill advance. In the current diamond drill program the core was sawn and intervals selected for assay. A split RC or diamond drill sample was shipped by Company personnel to the ALS Chemex sample preparation facility at Hermosillo, Sonora which forwards prepared samples to the ALS Chemex Vancouver facility for assay.

Donald Empey, President

View the Company web site at www.pacificcomox.com or the Company filings on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. 

                        PACIFIC COMOX RESOURCES LTD
                 Mabel Project Northern Sonora State Mexico
       Table 1: Summary of Selected Calculated Mineralized Intervals

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                                        Selected Interval
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Hole       UTM Coordinates       Hole   From   To  Length    Gold  Silver
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Number    Easting  Northing  Length(m)    (m)  (m)     (m)   (g/t)   (g/t)
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DDH016     454865   3444827        15      4    7       3    0.90      15
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DDH019     454808   3444673        21      8    9       1    1.90      17
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DDH023     454883   3444820        12      0    5       5    1.83      65
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DDH024     454893   3444796        12      0    2       2    2.20     124
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DDH025     454922   3444717        28     20   22       2    0.82      36
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DDH027     454934   3444756        12      2    3       1    0.89      54
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DDH029     454945   3444740        12      2    8       6    8.99     118
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DDH030     454990   3444616        18      3    5       2    0.53      22
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DDH031     455019   3444601        15      5    8       3    2.12     103
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DDH033     455043   3444599        19      8   15       7    0.87      44
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DDH034     455093   3444570        12      0    4       4    0.36      31
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DDH035     454972   3444579        19     11   16       5    1.18      91
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DDH036     455003   3444536        15      2    4       2    1.51      74
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DDH037     454938   3444536        15      8   12       4    0.62      69
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DDH038     454960   3444522        15      4    9       5    0.43      34
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DDH040     454702   3444707        12      4    6       2    0.61      27
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Average Grade                                                1.61      58

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September 8, 2009
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Note: All holes vertical. All grades calculated as arithmetic averages.
      Holes reported are from 27 holes drilled in Carmelitas area in
      this campaign.
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Contacts

Donald Empey
Pacific Comox Resources Ltd.
President
416 977 4653
416 977 8335 (FAX)
dempey@pacificcomox.com
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