Tombstone Exploration Sets Strategic Exploration Priorities
April 02, 2009

Tombstone Exploration Corporation (OTCBB: TMBXF) announced that its staff has identified three exploration strategic priorities for advancing near-term value and long term economic potential on its Tombstone, Arizona properties. Geologic mapping and sampling during the last week of March 2009, located mineralization supporting the underlying concepts behind these strategies. Chlorargerite (a high-grade silver ore mineral), fine grained silicification and low manganese content was found in outcrops and mine dumps, an alteration pattern consistent with the highest grade ores in the Western Tombstone Mining District, and three samples have been submitted to Copper State Analytical Laboratories in Prescott, Arizona, for silver, gold, copper, lead, zinc, and manganese assays.

Alan Brown, President & CEO of Tombstone, stated, "Previous mining and exploration efforts in the Western Tombstone District have focused on ore bearing structures that were exposed on the surface, and mining activities throughout the area stopped at or near the shallow water table due to insufficient pumping technologies at the time. Historical operations were also hampered by lack of economical processing methods for lower grade ore, such as the effective heap leach technologies used and developed in Tombstone in the 1980s. One part of our exploration strategy is ore deposits buried beneath alluvial cover or otherwise not exposed, that were overlooked by historical prospecting efforts. A near surface ore body will allow for rapid initiation of mining and metal production, and will be amenable to low-cost heap leach processing that requires minimal infrastructure and environmental impact."

The longer term focus of exploration work will be to locate two specific geologic targets repeated throughout the area. These two targets have been developed through detailed analysis of the geologic conditions in historically producing mines in the Tombstone area.

Detailed structural mapping of the Western Tombstone District will allow company geologists to predict intersection zones between mineralized fractures exposed at the surface and in old mine workings with other geologic features such as cross faults, folded sedimentary rock layers, and intrusive igneous dikes. These intersection zones enhanced permeability for ascending ore-bearing hydrothermal fluids, and provided a conduit for later chemical weathering solutions that enriched ore grades and allowed processing and refining of contained metals by cheaper, more efficient methods.

The best stratigraphic host for ore in the Tombstone region is along the contact between Paleozoic limestones and overlying Mesozoic shales of the Bisbee Formation, a geologic horizon that has not previously been explored in the Western Tombstone District. Detailed mapping of lithology and stratigraphy will allow Tombstone's geologists to develop drill targets that test the intersection of this horizon with mineralized structures at depth.

Tombstone Exploration Corporation (TMBXF) is focused primarily on exploration and development of mineral resources. At the completion of the feasibility study, the Company will then consider joint venture mining or some other scenario that would eventually expedite a mining operation on the Tombstone property. More often in these scenarios, the Company would become subject to take over offers based on a positive economic feasibility study. The Company understands that the discovery to feasibility phase generally offers the best return on investment to shareholders. Tombstone Exploration Corporation has the mineral rights to approximately 11,500 acres of historical mining land in the areas around Tombstone, Arizona and is now the largest landholder in the Tombstone Mining District. Through expansion, the Company will acquire new properties.

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