TYE Troymet Exploration Corp.

Troymet Exploration Corp. (TSX VENTURE:TYE) ("Troymet" or the "Company") is
pleased to provide additional information on the Skarn zone, one of several gold
prospects located in the north block of the Golden Eagle project in northern
British Columbia. The Golden Eagle project lies at the southern end of the
Tintina Gold Belt, which contains many intrusion-related gold deposits such as
Pogo (Alaska), Fort Knox (Alaska) and Dublin Gulch (Yukon). The data base for
the Skarn zone is being updated and re-compiled in preparation for the upcoming
summer field program.


The 2008 exploration program indicated the presence of a large intrusion-related
gold system spanning the approximately 12-kilometre strike length of the
northern half of the Golden Eagle property. This gold system is exposed in the
granite/rhyolite of the Tannis zone but capped by sediments and mafic volcanics
of variable thickness to the north, where multiple zones of
gold-silver-arsenic-antimony mineralization occur in the Plateau, Skarn, West
Gully, Cowboy, and West Draw zones. These zones are developed in the roof of the
intrusion over an area of approximately 5 x 5 kilometres. The Company believes
that these zones may represent leakage mineralization of a potentially larger
mineralized system below and directly related to the underlying intrusive.


The Skarn zone is a high, NW-trending ridge approximately 700 metres long and
200 metres wide. The zone is a structurally-controlled, gold-bearing,
amphibole-sulphide skarn located along the Paddy Fault that tracks the west
contact of the Stuhini Group with the Boundary Ranges Metamorphic Suite. This
fault is a western splay off the terrane-bounding Llewellyn Fault situated
approximately 2 kilometres to the east. The amphibole-sulphide skarn and iron
gossans are best developed in an area of abundant felsic dykes, which are
probably related to the upper parts of a much larger underlying granitic pluton.


The Skarn zones is overlain by a moderate to strong gold-in-soil anomaly (5 to
1800 ppb), approximately 500 metres long and 120 metres wide. Chip and channel
samples collected from trenches by Lodestar Exploration in 1990 returned 6.4 to
44.7 g/t over widths of 2.0 to 2.4 metres. Prospecting (grab) samples collected
by Noranda in 1993-94 and Westmin Resources in 1996 returned gold values ranging
from 5 to 3350 ppb gold with four samples assaying 411, 134, 105, 36.7 g/t gold.
Silver (0.2 to 240 ppm), antimony (2 to 4440 ppm) and copper (0.9 to 16,500 ppm)
are also anomalous over the zone.


Gold mineralization in the Skarn zone occurs as visible gold and associated with
pyrite in narrow (5- 25 mm) quartz-calcite stringer veins. Visible gold also
occurs with quartz-carbonate-sulphide veinlets (1-10 mm) in host rocks near a
feldspar-amphibole porphyry dyke at the north end of the Skarn zone. Five grab
samples reported by Lodestar from a trench in this area range from 8.9 to 200.5
g/t gold. The trench lies approximately 90 metres east of the Paddy Fault.


Historically, there has been very limited diamond drilling on the Skarn zone.
The drilling has been shallow and significant areas of the zone remain untested.
Drilling in the area of the trench which returned 200.5 g/t gold in a grab
sample returned intercepts ranging from 1.28 g/t gold over 6.0 metres to 14.6
g/t gold over 1.0 metre. Four holes drilled on the Paddy Fault (approximately 90
metres to the west) over a 265 metre strike length returned intercepts ranging
from 1.32 g/t gold over 3.2 metres to 7.64 g/t gold over 3.45 metres.


The Skarn zone is believed to be developed in the cap rocks of a buried felsic
intrusive, with the gold mineralization derived directly from the intrusive as
at the Tannis zone. Skarn-type alteration is noted around the granite contact at
Tannis and in other zones, giving credence to this model. The Company believes
the Skarn zone is open to the north and south along the Paddy Fault, and
westward toward the Cowboy zone. The drilling to date has not tested the system
at depth. The 2009 program will, in part, focus on the identification of high
impact intrusive-related gold drill targets in the Skarn zone and its
extensions.


Troymet is a junior exploration company with precious and base metal projects
located in British Columbia and Manitoba, Canada. The Company is actively
seeking partners to advance its highly prospective properties and continues to
seek new projects with high-value and large-tonnage potential to add to its
portfolio.


Tracy Hurley, P.Geo., Vice President, Exploration and qualified person as
defined by National Instrument 43-101 is responsible for the technical
information provided in this release. An overview of previous work conducted on
the Skarn and other zones is presented in a technical report entitled "Report on
the 2006 Mineral Exploration Program on the Golden Eagle Property, Atlin Area,
Northwestern British Columbia" dated October 2, 2007 by independent qualified
person, Scott Casselman, P. Geo. (Reference Troymet Exploration SEDAR filing
October 11, 2007). A location map of the various mineralized zones at Golden
Eagle is available at www.troymet.com/s/GoldenEagle.asp.


TROYMET EXPLORATION CORP.

Kieran Downes, Ph.D., P.Geo.

President, CEO & Director

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assumptions the Company believes are reasonable. These assumptions include, but
are not limited to, the actual results of exploration projects being equivalent
to or better than estimated results in technical reports or prior exploration
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the early stage development of the Company and its projects; general business,
economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; commodity prices; the
actual results of current exploration and development or operational activities;
competition; changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined;
accidents and other risks inherent in the mining industry; lack of insurance;
delay or failure to receive board or regulatory approvals; changes in
legislation, including environmental legislation, affecting the Company; timing
and availability of external financing on acceptable terms; conclusions of
economic evaluations; and lack of qualified, skilled labour or loss of key
individuals. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in
forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not
to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not
place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company does not
undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with
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