Rome Resources Ltd: Hole-Averaged Silver Equivalent Values (Based on Certified Silver and Gold Assays) from Drill Holes on the West Zone of Rome's Don Luis Property, Sonora, Mexico

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News Release 11: December 1st, 2011

Rome Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce hole-averaged silver equivalent grades from certified gold and silver assays in drill holes (DLS10DD01 & 2 and DLS11RC001 to 064) on the West Zone of the Don Luis Greisen-Porphyry Silver-Gold-Tungsten Property, Sonora, Mexico (all holes in the West Zone are located in Fig. A1). Composed results from the first six reverse circulation (RC) holes were reported in News Release #06, May 5^th 2011, and correspondingly detailed data for RC holes 001 to 024 were announced in News Release #08, August 10^th 2011. This report presents hole-averaged assay data for all holes currently completed in the West Zone. Certified silver and gold grades from Pioneer Laboratories Inc. (Richmond, BC, Canada) in Table A1 were used to calculate the hole-averages of silver equivalent grades (on a 1 silver to 40 gold ratio) which are presented in the right hand column of Table A1.

The West Zone of the Don Luis Property has porphyry-style, open-pit tonnage potential. The zone is represented by an anomaly more than 500 meters in diameter that is mineralized and oxidized to a depth of more than 400 meters, as indicated by diamond drilling (News Release #10, May 28^th 2010). This porphyry-class tonnage potential is demonstrated in Figure A1 that illustrates how a 108 million tonne (tonne = metric tonne) block fits within the priority drilling area of the West Zone. Note that the potential quantity, above, is conceptual in nature, there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource, and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in discovery of a mineral resource.

Hole-averaged equivalent silver values for combined silver and gold, using a silver to gold ratio of 40:1, are mapped in Figure A2-as generated from data in Table A1. These hole-averaged equivalent silver values increase to the north to more than 20 grams per metric tonne. Higher grades are also open in this direction.

Hole-averaged assay data for silver and gold with a calculated silver equivalent grade (silver:gold calculated at 40:1) for all holes located in the West Zone on Figures A1 and A2 are in Table A1. The higher grades of hole-averaged equivalent silver encountered in these holes (Table A1 and Figs. A1 & A2) is emphasized by the large number of holes with greater than 20 grams per metric tonne of silver equivalent. These drill holes are:

1. DLS11RC007: 93.0 meters total length with 21.50 grams/metric tonne silver equivalent.
2. DLS11RC014: 102.0 meters total length with 31.99 grams/metric tonne silver equivalent.
3. DLS11RC015: 102.0 meters total length with 23.95 grams/metric tonne silver equivalent.
4. DLS11RC021: 87.0 meters total length with 27.70 grams/metric tonne silver equivalent.
5. DLS11RC030: 99.0 meters total length with 21.86 grams/metric tonne silver equivalent.
6. DLS11RC033: 67.5 meters total length with 32.40 grams/metric tonne silver equivalent.
7. DLS11RC060: 100.5 meters total length with 22.05 grams/metric tonne silver equivalent.
8. DLS11RC062: 87.0 meters total length with 27.59 grams/metric tonne silver equivalent.
9. DLS11RC064: 52.5 meters total length with 20.57 grams/metric tonne silver equivalent.

All mineralization is in a highly oxidized cap-rock of intensely muscovite altered porphyry or greisen. Consequently, the gold and silver mineralization is: (i) in rock with a low "work index", and (ii) amenable to bulk heap leaching of oxide mineralization. Silver appears to be concentrated in manganese rich horizons, the distribution of which is being evaluated. Gold is associated with vein quartz. Associated tungsten, molybdenum, bismuth and lead could contribute to the value of the silver-gold mineralization, based on qualitative, in-house Niton XRF analyses (see News Release #08, August 10^th 2011). Because drilling is preliminary, mineralization is open in all directions and at depth. Core recovery in diamond drilling was about 80% and recovery in reverse circulation drill holes was approximately 70%. The effect of this recovery on overall grade assessment is not known.

IN SUMMARY, the West Zone target is a 100 million tonne, porphyry-style, open-pit mine for bulk-tonnage low grade silver and gold. There are potentially additional values in tungsten, molybdenum, bismuth and lead. Mineralization occurs in an oxide zone and is expected to be heap leachable. Recovery of other minerals, such as the tungsten mineral wolframite, might be achieved by gravity methods. Metallurgical options are to be evaluated.

Rome Resources Ltd. is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on silver, gold, copper and tungsten projects in Mexico and Argentina. It is traded on the TSX-VEN (symbol RMR) and on the Frankfurt Exchange (33R). Company and exploration details are at: http://www.romeresources.com (http://www.romeresources.com/) (click: "What's New" [SEDAR News Releases] and "Projects").

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

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Colin I. Godwin, PhD, PEng, PGeo, a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101, has verified data disclosed in this release. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its regulation services provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this News Release. This News Release may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements which relate to future events. As such, they are 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 almost always vary, sometimes materially, from any estimates, predictions, projections, assumptions or other future performance suggested herein.

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Figure A1. Drill holes currently completed on the West Zone of the Don Luis Property in Sonora, Mexico, are plotted as black dots. Holes DLS10DD01 & 02 and DLS11RC001 to 064 are plotted in this map and summarized in Table A1. The average assay of each hole for silver equivalent in grams per metric tonne is in Table A1 and contoured in Figure A2. The potential of this zone to contain 100 million tonnes is illustrated by the dark blue block plotted on top of the red priority drill area. The areas of both are about the same; the depth is estimated from the two diamond drill holes in the area (DLS10DD01 & 02) that were about 400 meters long and totally within oxidized, leached cap rock.

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 Figure A2. Drill holes completed on the West Zone of the Don Luis Property in Sonora, Mexico, are plotted as black dots with a size that reflects average silver equivalent in grams per metric tonne (legend: "GpTonne"). These values are also contoured. Values are higher to the northeast. Holes in the southwest have lower values, but this might be because these holes were short and failed to reach the deeper manganese-silver enrichment horizons.

TABLE A1. Average values for the total length of each hole for significant metals in completed holes in the West Zone of the Don Luis Property, Sonora, Mexico. Analyses labeled "Pioneer" are certified analyses from Pioneer Laboratories Inc. Core recovery in diamond drill holes (DD01, etc.) are in the order of 80%. Recovery in reverse circulation holes (suffix RC001, etc.) is in the order of 70% Holes are plotted in Figure A1. Hole-averaged silver equivalent in grams per metric tonne ("AgEquiv. Grams/Tonne") are plotted in Figure A2. (* marks data for two diamond drill holes in the zone that were averaged for only the top 100 meters to match the maximum depths of most of the reverse circulation holes.)

DrillHoleName	LengthM	AgGpt	AuGpt	AgE40Gpt
DLS10DD01*	100.0	10	0.064	12.38
DLS10DD02*	96.0	10	0.076	13.37
DLS11RC001	96.0	12	0.035	13.05
DLS11RC002	103.5	11	0.163	17.65
DLS11RC003	100.5	7	0.045	9.04
DLS11RC004	100.5	7	0.133	11.90
DLS11RC005	100.5	8	0.105	12.18
DLS11RC006	79.5	10	0.140	16.07
DLS11RC007	93.0	17	0.115	21.50
DLS11RC008	100.5	10	0.165	16.45
DLS11RC009	90.0	5	0.081	8.04
DLS11RC010	102.0	7	0.191	14.96
DLS11RC011	102.0	8	0.116	12.38
DLS11RC012	87.0	7	0.132	11.84
DLS11RC013	102.0	9	0.109	13.17
DLS11RC014	102.0	30	0.052	31.99
DLS11RC015	102.0	20	0.102	23.95
DLS11RC016	82.5	11	0.068	13.35
DLS11RC017	102.0	7	0.060	9.47
DLS11RC018	93.0	4	0.013	4.83
DLS11RC019	99.0	9	0.029	9.83
DLS11RC020	90.0	8	0.193	15.82
DLS11RC021	87.0	18	0.239	27.70
DLS11RC022	90.0	7	0.166	13.35
DLS11RC023	100.5	4	0.105	8.01
DLS11RC024	31.5	4	0.247	14.36
DLS11RC025	99.0	2	0.088	5.93
DLS11RC026	100.5	6	0.328	19.06
DLS11RC027	102.0	4	0.190	11.67
DLS11RC028	102.0	11	0.032	12.67
DLS11RC029	108.0	17	0.064	19.61
DLS11RC030	99.0	15	0.182	21.86
DLS11RC031	102.0	6	0.180	13.31
DLS11RC032	48.0	10	0.181	17.58
DLS11RC033	67.5	21	0.283	32.40
DLS11RC034	90.0	4	0.098	8.33
DLS11RC035	100.5	3	0.087	6.40
DLS11RC036	102.0	2	0.037	3.26
DLS11RC037	102.0	4	0.039	5.39
DLS11RC038	100.5	4	0.036	5.13
DLS11RC039	45.0	0	0.024	1.44
DLS11RC040	52.5	1	0.009	0.97
DLS11RC041	60.0	6	0.008	6.18
DLS11RC042	60.0	0	0.008	0.71
DLS11RC043	66.0	0	0.037	1.77
DLS11RC044	69.0	9	0.042	10.29
DLS11RC045	100.5	3	0.014	3.72
DLS11RC046	96.0	3	0.036	4.57
DLS11RC047	90.0	4	0.080	7.65
DLS11RC048	22.5	5	0.063	7.73
DLS11RC049	102.0	8	0.155	14.05
DLS11RC050	100.5	7	0.033	8.70
DLS11RC051	48.0	9	0.133	14.42
DLS11RC052	24.0	5	0.022	5.76
DLS11RC053	51.0	4	0.064	6.21
DLS11RC054	28.5	1	0.006	1.36
DLS11RC055	40.5	2	0.008	2.51
DLS11RC056	54.0	1	0.019	1.71
DLS11RC060	100.5	20	0.041	22.05
DLS11RC061	102.0	16	0.032	17.70
DLS11RC062	87.0	25	0.068	27.59
DLS11RC063	88.5	14	0.065	17.01
DLS11RC064	52.5	19	0.050	20.57

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