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Zinco Mining Corporation ("Zinco") (TSX VENTURE:ZIM) is pleased to report that
it has intersected what appears to be a significant zone of zinc and lead rich
VMS mineralization under and east of the past producing Jesus Maria open-pit
mine during an on-going reverse circulation drilling campaign on its 100% owned
El Maple Property in the Cuale VMS District. The Jesus Maria deposit occurs
about 2.5 kilometres north of Zinco's San Juan deposit where significant
silver-rich VMS mineralization appears to have been intersected by Zinco's
drilling earlier in the spring campaign and disclosed in news release 2008-05.


Jesus Maria was historically mined for silver, gold, copper, lead, and zinc. The
old workings include two adits and a small open pit. Past production from Jesus
Maria was 43,000 tonnes of 0.34 g/t gold, 182 g/t silver, 1.47% lead, 3.35% zinc
and 0.24% copper from a small lens located within the flow breccias above a
rhyolite dome complex. Another short adit was driven historically on a separate
occurrence of VMS mineralization called Patrocino that lies about 600 metres
south east of Jesus Maria. Soil samples taken between Jesus Maria and Patrocinio
define a contiguous polymetallic geochemical anomaly over 600 metres long, and
150 metres wide that contains elevated values of gold, silver, lead, zinc, and
copper as well as high concentrations of mercury, antimony and arsenic.


Zinco has completed a total of 1,604 metres of drilling in thirteen drill holes
between the Jesus Maria pit and the Patrocinio adit, within the central part of
the geochemical anomaly. Ten of the holes appear to have significant intercepts
of zinc-rich mineralization and define an area about 350 metres long and 250
metres wide that is open along strike both to the west-northwest and to the
east-southeast. Two of the ten holes were drilled into the west-northwest
trending Mariana Fault. One of those two holes intercepted strongly sericite
altered rhyolite and quartz-feldspar-porphyritic rhyolite intrusions, and the
other hole intercepted quartz-chlorite-pyrite alteration with significant
chalcopyrite. The intense alteration and presence of high level intrusions imply
that these two holes intercepted the feeder fault to the Jesus Maria massive
sulphide mineralization.


The thickest and highest grade sulphides occur north of the Mariana Fault in an
easterly trending sub-basin. Hole ZIM 30 was drilled north-westerly into this
geological feature, and returned 39.78 metres of strong sphalerite (zinc) and
galena (lead) rich massive sulphide between 57.12 metres and 96.9 metres
down-hole. Hole ZIM 16, drilled to the northeast, intercepted semi-massive to
disseminated polymetallic sulphide mineralization over 49.98 metres between
105.06 and 155.04 metres down-hole. Hole ZIM 19 was drilled about 70 metres
south of the Mariana Fault and intercepted 30.6 metres of sphalerite-rich
massive to semi massive sulphide between 49.98 and 80.58 metres down-hole. Hole
ZIM 32 was collared near ZIM 16, but drilled to the north-northwest and
intercepted 81.6 meters of disseminated to semi-massive sulphide between 44.88
and 126.48 meters down hole.


This newly discovered deeper massive sulphide horizon at Jesus Maria occurs
about 50 metres below the quartz-phyric rhyolite flow dome and breccia complex
that hosted the previously mined massive sulphide lens, and within a thick
sequence of quartz phyric rhyolite tuffs intercalated with black argillites that
are intruded by quartz-feldspar porphyritic rhyolite.


Mineralization consists mainly of coarsely crystalline yellow, white, red, green
and black sphalerite with galena, various sulphosalts and significant
chalcopyrite. The feeder portion of the mineralized zone is characterized by
intense chloritic alteration with coarsely crystalline pyrite and chalcopyrite.
The footwall to the massive sulphides consists of quartz, sericite, chlorite and
pyrite. Sericite alteration occurs above the sulphides. Laterally, the
alteration consists of pervasive silicification with pyrite.


Samples were collected at one metre intervals and analyzed with a Niton hand
held XRF on site. The Niton analyses indicate that zinc is the most important
economic element followed by lead and copper. Based on the Niton X-ray analyses
and visual examination of the samples using a microscope the mineralized
intercepts were defined and have been sent to the Acme Analytical Laboratory in
Vancouver for quantitative analyses for silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper.


This initial phase of Zinco's Cuale drilling campaign has now been completed and
the drill and crews have demobilized. A total of approximately 4,700 metres of
reverse circulation drilling in 33 holes were completed on four separate
targets: San Juan, Grandeza, Naricero, and Jesus Maria. Assay results will be
reported when received in the next two months.


About the Jalisco VMS Project:

The Cuale Camp is one of six separate massive sulphide camps that occur within
Zinco Mining Corporation's 100% owned Jalisco VMS project area, which is located
in the Jalisco State of south western Mexico approximately 50 to 75 kilometres
east of Puerto Vallarta. The other five massive sulphide mining camps in the
Jalisco VMS project area are Desmoronado, Aranjuez, Bramador, La Mina and El
Rubi. Both the Jesus Maria and San Juan Zones of mineralization occur in the
Cuale VMS camp.


The geological setting and age of the six massive sulphide camps in the Jalisco
VMS project area, including the Cuale mining camp, and their numerous precious
metal enriched massive sulphide deposits are similar in many aspects to the
valuable Eskay Greek gold-silver mine and the highly prospective Iskut
River-Stewart area in north western British Columbia. A similar Mexican analogy
that lies south of Cuale is the Campo Morado district where TSX company Farallon
Resources Ltd. is readying its G-9 deposit for production and conducting
aggressive exploration drilling on several other deposits.


Michelle Robinson MASc., P.Eng. a director of Zinco is the qualified person as
defined by NI 43-101 and responsible for the preparation of technical
information in this news release.


Further detailed information about the Jalisco VMS project and the Cuale camp
can be reviewed on Zinco's website www.zincomining.com.


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD,

Christopher Graf P.Eng., President & CEO

Certain information regarding the company including management's assessment of
future plans and operations, may constitute forward-looking statements under
applicable securities laws and necessarily involve risks associated with mining
exploration and development, volatility of prices, currency fluctuations,
imprecision of resource estimates, environmental and permitting risks, access to
labour and services, competition from other companies and ability to access
sufficient capital. As a consequence, actual results may differ materially from
those anticipated in the forward-looking statements.

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