SBW Strongbow Exploration Inc

Strongbow Exploration Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SBW) is pleased to announce it has
concluded fifteen option agreements with private land owners within the
Haile-Brewer gold trend in South Carolina, USA. The Haile-Brewer trend extends
for over 15 kilometres between the past-producing Haile and Brewer gold mines
located within the volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Carolina slate belt
(CSB). The CSB is host to a number of additional past producing mines including
Rio Tinto's Ridgeway mine which had total gold production of approximately 1.5
million ounces. Strongbow's Midway gold project
(http://www.strongbowexploration.com/s/midway.asp) encompasses approximately
1,900 acres of prospective geology located between and along strike from Romarco
Minerals Inc.'s (R: TSXV) Haile gold mine and Buzzard exploration properties.
Current measured and indicated resources reported by Romarco for the Haile gold
mine consist of 2.2 million ounces gold with additional inferred resources of
2.0 million ounces gold.


"Acquisition of the highly prospective, underexplored properties of the Midway
gold project represents an opportunity for Strongbow to step into an emerging
world class gold camp," commented Ken Armstrong, Strongbow's President and CEO.
"There are not many places where you can identify and acquire exploration
properties in such close proximity to established multi-million ounce gold
resources in a low cost, mining friendly jurisdiction such as South Carolina."


The Midway project includes over 1,450 contiguous acres covering a 2.5 kilometre
strike length of the Haile-Brewer gold trend. Despite its location along strike
from and in close proximity to the Haile and Buzzard properties, extensive
coastal plain sand deposits cover these Midway properties, and as a result
comparably little past exploration work has been conducted in this area.
Importantly, at the Haile gold mine, Romarco has recently reported the discovery
of significant gold mineralization outside of existing resources and beneath the
coastal plain sands, including intercepts of 60.7 metres (m) grading 11.9 grams
per tonne (g/t) gold and 148.3 m grading 3.6 g/t gold at the newly discovered
Horseshoe zone. Discovery of the Horseshoe zone confirms the potential of the
CSB to host additional high grade gold mineralization along strike from the
Haile gold mine beneath the sands of the coastal plain cover sequence.


In the Midway project area, the unconsolidated coastal plain sands are estimated
to be less than 10 m thick and government mapping along a local creek bed has
identified a volcanic-sediment contact considered to be an important local
control on gold mineralization. Initial prospecting of the Midway properties by
Strongbow has identified clay alteration within CSB rocks exposed along
streambeds at two separate locations. A series of narrow quartz veins were noted
at one of the locations. PIMA analyses of samples from this altered bedrock have
confirmed the presence of kaolinite and possible sericite clays. The presence of
these clay minerals is significant, as kaolinite/sericite/quartz alteration has
been described in close spatial relationship to gold mineralization at the Haile
gold mine.


The Midway project also includes two land parcels that directly adjoin Romarco's
Buzzard property. Reported results from exploration in the Buzzard area by
Cepeda Minerals Inc. during the 1990's included highlight drill results of 129
feet (39.3 m) grading 0.259 ounce per ton (opt) gold (7.3 g/t) and 275 feet
(83.8 m) grading 0.025 opt gold (0.7 g/t).


Terms of the option agreements covering the Midway project include certain
annual cash payments to the landowners and, subject to regulatory approval, the
issuance of 100,000 common shares to Mr. Thomas Thompson. Upon exercising each
of the options, Strongbow will either purchase each subject property or enter
into a long term mining lease. The properties will be subject to a gross
overriding royalty to the current land owners.


Planning is underway to commence an initial exploration program on the Midway
project this Fall, including geochemical and geophysical surveys. Strongbow's
2010 exploration programs are conducted under the supervision of David Gale,
P.Geo.(BC), Vice-President of Exploration for Strongbow and a qualified person
under NI 43-101.


STRONGBOW EXPLORATION INC.

Kenneth A. Armstrong, President and CEO

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