PRESS RELEASE

Purchase of three lots over the former Shaft Mine at the Nicholas-Denys Project

Rimouski, February 10, 2009 – Exploration Puma (PUM-TSXV) has just bought the three private

properties covering the site of the former mine facilities at its Nicholas-Denys project in New

Brunswick. In fact, the Company has acquired three private lots with a total area of 14.6 hectares

which also include the Shaft lens and the northern portion of the Haché lens. With this acquisition

Puma becomes the sole owner of the surface rights and will be able to construct the necessary

infrastructure to develop the mineralized lenses in the near term and at reduced cost.

In addition, the Company is repairing 2.1 km of the access road to allow heavy trucks to travel from

the main Nicholas-Denys road, which connects the Nicholas-Denys property to Highway No. 11.

Following this work, the Company moved the drill core to the site so as to concentrate its operations

directly on the property during 2009.

2008 Program

In 2008, Exploration Puma drilled 84 holes in the vicinity of the Shaft and Haché lenses, for a total

advance of 19,504 metres. These holes led to the discovery of five new lenses containing Ag-Pb-Zn

mineralization, including one lens that connects the Shaft and Haché lenses at a vertical depth of 250

metres. The holes also confirmed the surface extension of the Haché lens over more than 200 metres,

which represents a doubling of the length of lens used in the resource calculation released in February

2008. It should be noted that the resource calculation was performed before the discovery of these

new mineralized lenses.