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03.04.2008
Rome Resources Ltd. announces Soil Geochemical Results on the Don Luis Tungsten-Gold Greisen-Porphyry property, Northern Sonora, Mexico

Rome Resources Ltd. announces Soil Geochemical Results on the Don Luis Tungsten-Gold Greisen-Porphyry property, Northern Sonora, Mexico

INTRODUCTION

Rome Resources Ltd’s Don Luis Tungsten-Gold Greisen-Porphyry Property is in northern Sonora, Mexico, about 45 kilometers north of Hermosillo (Fig. 1). It is in the municipality of Ures. Rome holds a total of 3,400 hectares by: (i) option of 450 hectares from Luis Ayala Barragan and Agripina Ayala Guerrero (News Release of August 13th 2007 & March 28th 2008), and (ii) application for 3,100 hectares by Roma Recursos de S.A. de C.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rome Resources Ltd. (News Release of November 15th 2007).

This News Release announces soil geochemical results on the Don Luis Tungsten-Gold Greisen-Porphyry Property. Geophysical results were in Rome’s News Releases of February 6th 2008 and March 26th 2008. Publication of analyses for tungsten and gold from the two trenches (Figs. 2 & 3) are in Rome’s News Release of November 19th 2007.

EXPLORATION TARGET

Rome’s Don Luis Tungsten-Gold Greisen-Porphyry Property is being explored as a bulk-tonnage, open-pit-mineable tungsten-gold prospect. Locally, areas encountered in the trenches are high grade, but overall, an open-pit low-grade deposit is being targeted.

Positive, and often unique, features of the Don Luis Tungsten-Gold Greisen-Porphyry Property include: (i) a large area of abundant World War II dry-placers for tungsten that was strategic during that time, (ii) unique greisen hosted mineralization that covers a large area, (iii) association of greisen with quartz porphyry over an area about three kilometers east-west by one kilometer north-south [Fig. 2], (iv) encouraging tungsten and gold geochemistry in regional sampling, (v) significant gold and tungsten values in preliminary trenching [Fig. 2 & News Release of November 19th 2007], (vi) gold and the tungsten minerals wolframite and scheelite in panned concentrates, (vii) locally, visible gold in veins, (viii) abundant gold and tungsten in skarns common to this part of Sonora indicating a significant gold-tungsten district, (ix) occurrence within the Early Tertiary: Cananea – La Caridad – Creston porphyry copper-molybdenum belt [Fig. 1], (x) currently high and rising prices for tungsten and gold, (xi) easy access, (xii) subdued topography ideal for open pit development, and (xiii) close proximity to several small villages, and the major city and capital of Sonora at Hermosillo [Fig. 1].

Figure 1. Location of the Don Luis Tungsten-Gold Greisen-Porphyry Property with respect to Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, and mines in the Early Tertiary: Cananea – La Caridad - Creston porphyry copper-molybdenum belt. Significantly, the Don Luis Property is only 47.5 kilometers south of Creston Moly’s Creston molybdenum-copper deposit, and 150 kilometers south of the famous Cananea copper mine.

Please find the picture about Figure 1. under the following link: http://www.irw-press.com/dokumente/Rome_020408_1.pdf

Figure 2. Geology of Don Luis Tungsten-Gold Greisen-Porphyry Property, Sonora, Mexico. Coordinates are UTM Nad27Mexico, Zone 12R. Plus symbols mark the centers of induced polarization chargeability anomalies at different depths (brown = -25 m, blue = -125 m, green = -225 m, red = -325 m and black = -425 m). Stars mark occurrences of “brain” rock (News Release of November 19th 2007) or pegmatite.

Please find the picture about Figure 2. under the following link: http://www.irw-press.com/dokumente/Rome_020408_2.pdf

RESULTS FROM THE SOIL GEOCHEMICAL SURVEYS

Soil geochemical results are presented in Figures 3 to 5. Figure 3 is a plan map of the Don Luis grid showing contours of soil “values” statistically derived from 12 metals associated with, and including, gold and tungsten. Colors are “rainbow” with violet as low and red as high. Bubble plots display soil results for gold (yellow triangles) and tungsten (green crosses). Figures 4 and 5 compares detailed variation of metal values in stacked bar graph profiles above the induced polarization chargeability for the south to north line 534950 east (Fig. 4) and the west to east line 3261500 north (Fig. 5).

The plan in Figure 3 illustrates that the soil geochemical anomalies (red bordered by yellow) are centered on the middle of the central greisen and around the location of the original trenches reported on in the News Release of November 19th 2007. This circular, central “value” anomaly is 750 meters in diameter. Stacked bar graphs for soil geochemistry above chargeability profiles in Figures 4 and 5 show that high metal “values”, and gold, tungsten, molybdenum and copper are closely correlated with strong, near surface induced polarization chargeability.

Figure 3. Soil geochemistry on the Don Luis grid. Contoured map (violet-low to red-high) is a statistically derived “value” for 12 metals associated with, and including, gold and tungsten. The bubble plots are for gold (ppb—yellow triangles) and tungsten (ppm—green crosses). The grey dashed line outlines the central greisen. Stacked bar graphs for soil geochemistry are plotted on sections 534850E and 3261500N above chargeability profiles in Figures 4 and 5, respectively.

Please find the picture about Figure 3. under the following link: http://www.irw-press.com/dokumente/Rome_020408_3.pdf

Figure 4. South (left) to north (right) vertical section East 534850 of inverted chargeability (bottom) overlain on top by a geochemical soil profile presented as a stacked bar graph. “Value” is a statistical summation of 12 elements correlated with, and including, gold and tungsten. High soil geochemical “value” tungsten, gold, molybdenum and copper correlate with near surface high chargeability. Geochemical profile scale is expanded compared to Figure 5.

Please find the picture about Figure 4. under the following link: http://www.irw-press.com/dokumente/Rome_020408_4.pdf

Figure 5. West (left) to east (right) vertical section North 3261500 of inverted chargeability (bottom) overlain on top by a geochemical soil profile presented as a stacked bar graph. “Value” is a statistical summation of 12 elements correlated with, and including, gold and tungsten. High soil geochemical “value” tungsten, gold, molybdenum and copper correlate with near surface high chargeability. Geochemical profile scale is compressed compared to Figure 4.

Please find the picture about Figure 5. under the following link: http://www.irw-press.com/dokumente/Rome_020408_5.pdf

CONCLUSIONS

The soil geochemical anomalies described in Figures 3 to 5 are central to the distribution of greisen and the location of the original trenches. The profiles in Figures 4 and 5 also show that high soil geochemical metal “values”, gold, tungsten, molybdenum and copper are all closely correlated with strong, near surface induced polarization chargeability. The 750 meter diameter of the main circular geochemical anomaly in Figure 3 agrees well with the area suggested by the trenching, and especially, the central induced polarization chargeability anomaly.

Rome currently is focusing on this ongoing Don Luis Tungsten-Gold Greisen-Porphyry Project in an effort to develop tonnage and define tungsten and gold grades suitable for open-pit mining. Exploration to date has provided significant results from early exploration using geology, geochemical sampling, preliminary trenching and sampling, and a detailed induced polarization survey. The soil geochemical survey results described here are part of Rome’s systematic exploration program on this property. A proposal for drilling will be proposed for early 2008 and be the subject of a News Release in the near future.

The Don Luis Tungsten-Gold Greisen-Porphyry Project has an excellent address with respect to mines in the Early Tertiary Cananea – La Caridad – Creston porphyry copper-molybdenum belt (Fig. 1). Specifically, the Don Luis Project is only 47.5 kilometers south of Creston Moly’s Creston deposit, and 150 kilometers south of the famous Cananea copper mine.

ROME RESOURCES LTD.

Rome Resources Ltd. is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on gold, silver, tungsten and copper projects in Argentina and Mexico. It is publicly traded on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol RMR. Company and exploration details are available at www.RomeRMR.com (click: “New” and “Projects”). Up-to-date News Releases are available on SEDAR at www.Sedar.com .

On behalf of the Board of Directors
“Colin I. Godwin”
Colin I. Godwin, PhD, PEng, PGeo
President and Director of Rome Resources Ltd.
Professor Emeritus, The University of British Columbia
Telephone: (604) 939-6507

The TSX Venture Exchange has neither reviewed nor accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Colin I. Godwin, PhD, PEng, PGeo, a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101, has verified data disclosed in this release. This News Release contains forward-looking statements that relate to future events. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our or our industry’s actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. While these forward-looking statements, and any assumptions upon which they are based, are made in good faith and reflect our current judgment regarding the direction of our industry, actual results will vary, sometimes materially, from any estimates, predictions, projections, assumptions or other future performance suggested herein. Except as required by applicable law, the Company does not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements to conform these statements to actual results.