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Tombstone Exploration Corporation confirms two porphyry targets with ZTEM

Other objectives to be assessed

Phoenix, AZ – 16 November 2010 – Tombstone Exploration Corporation. (OTCBB: TMBXF, Frankfurt: Udnæs) announced today that the company continues working with the geophysical data to its Tombstone Project. ZTEM The data show that there are at least two target zones on the Company’s property, but is still a very large land area to be checked. The information is excellent, and the company goes on to the ZTEM results based on previous drilling and geological information of the historic district to present a map.

A target has been compared by tombstones geophysical contractor already with the Mount Milligan deposit which was sold recently. The Mount Milligan deposit has shown and proven resources of 417.1 million tonnes grading 0.21% copper and 0.41 grams of gold per ton. This is equivalent to 1,934 million pounds of copper and 5.5 million ounces of gold.

The Mount Milligan mine is expected to be an open pit mine on a large scale. The daily mining production will be 60,000 tons. This objective has precious metal on a ring around the property, which is an essential feature of porphyry systems.

Another target zone has a similar geophysical signature and is adjacent to a porphyry system that are currently drilling a large international mining companies. Other possible targets are still being studied and may indeed be other specialists involved.

Alan Brown, CEO of Tombstone Exploration Corp.., Said that on Sunday, 14 November 2010, the newspaper The Arizona Republic ACID ‘, an article about Arizona’s mining future published. Industry experts said the fact that there are likely significant undiscovered copper deposits in Arizona, and companies are encouraged to maintain exploration efforts in the state.

Tombstone Exploration Corporation (TMBXF) focuses primarily on the research and development of natural resources. Tombstone Exploration Corporation has the mineral exploration rights for historical mining land in the area around Tombstone, Arizona and is the largest landholder in the Tombstone Mining District. Tombstone also owns the mineral rights for 1000 acres in Mineral County in Nevada, also known as the Eagleville-land.

For more information on Tombstone Exploration Corporation, please visit our website at: www.tombstonemining.com.

Forward-looking statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of the company and its management. Such statements are estimates only, as the company has not completed work on its financial statements for those periods. Also, the results were not yet reviewed by an independent auditor. Actual revenue may differ materially from those that were anticipated in this press release. Forward-looking statements reflect the current views of management and are based on certain assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results, events or performance may differ materially from the above forward-looking statements due to a number of important factors. This includes the ability of Tombstone Exploration Corporation, for more funding. Tombstone Exploration Corporation undertakes no obligation to publicly update such predictive statements regarding events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release or lead to a change in Tombstone Exploration Corporation expectations due to unexpected events. Factors that could affect the success of Tombstone Exploration Corporation, are fully disclosed in Tombstone Exploration Corporation documents filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

CONTACT:
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Alan M. Brown
President
Tel: 001-480-305-4507

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Commodity Monitor – target price for copper is about $ 10,000 per tonne

Thomas Benedix, portfolio manager of Tiberius Asset Management AG believes that the current correction in the copper price represents a good buying opportunity. 2011, probably copper are in a deficit because not take place as capacity expansions in copper.

Other metals such as silver and palladium have benefited recently from the economic upswing. Thus, the demand for raw materials increased significantly in recent weeks and months, causing the investors to silver and palladium, or just access. The interest of investors in terms of inflows in these two commodities ETFs is currently very high. What distinguishes the two metals, the significant surplus of silver. This means that more silver will be encouraged to ask than the industry or the jewelry manufacturer. Therefore, one can use the small correction of the palladium currently suitable for beginners. In silver rat Thomas Benedix of Tiberius Asset Management AG but first for waiting.

GRIT INTERNATIONAL INTRODUCES 100% ACQUISITION OF ARIVA RESOURCES LTD. BY

GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB, Tuesday 16 November 2010: GRIT International Inc. ‘GRIT’ (FRANKFURT: 3GR1) is pleased to announce that the acquisition of all outstanding (25,000,000 common shares) and shares outstanding in the west African resource company Ariva Resources Ltd. (‘Ariva’; www.ariva-resources.com) was carried out and completed.

Ariva is a privately held natural resource companies, the various projects and locations in West Africa investigated. These include, among other things, significant gold, uranium, iron ore and diamond reserves (these are organized in the material department), and oil and gas and alternative energy sources such as palm oil and bio-energy (these are organized in the Energy Department). Ariva is therefore holding a series of highly valuable natural resource options and project plans, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which are now completed and GRIT on the market.

GRIT is particularly pleased about the completion of the acquisition because the acquisition of Ariva, the first under the recently announced and launched M & A strategy, more such transactions will follow shortly. ‘Currently, GRIT definitely in a buying mood and Ariva is just the first of a series of other planned acquisitions. With direct access to a variety of important mineral resources and other assets that will play for GRIT and its future role, offers Ariva extremely valuable strategic options, “said Lawrence Zeiben, managing director of GRIT to acquire Ariva and Grits successful M & A strategy .

Currently being investigated Arivas resource department several mining projects and mineral commodity locations in West Africa with a focus on gold, uranium, iron ore and diamonds. In addition to studying new projects and sites Ariva is negotiating with other major mining and resource companies and government representatives about the maintenance and acquisition of mineral commodities post in West Africa. The Energy Department of Ariva is focused both on the investigation of major oil and gas projects (onshore and offshore), as well as the evaluation of alternative energy sources such as palm oil and bio-energy, which will in future play a large role in West Africa. Through active project implementation and cooperation in two areas of the energy sector is Ariva has positioned itself as a major player, thanks to the cooperation with significant business partners with access to key projects in West Africa.

Willem Tijssen, Arivas manager has extensive knowledge of the West African Mano River Union market and has access to a network of high ranking local and national authorities. During the past 12 years were Tijssen and his consultancy Mano Properties & Investment Inc. in scrap metal operations, mining, trade, sustainable rice cultivation and palm oil projects in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia in active regions.

GRIT INTERNATIONAL INC. GRIT International is in the State of Nevada (USA) corporation, with headquarters in Canada; business objective is to market leader in North America in the paints and coatings. GRIT is already specialized service provider in the areas of mixed abrasives, abrasives, paints and coatings. Other key areas such as commodities, oil and gas, utilities and technology are in development.

Republic of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea – West African countries

Current professional research on impact is Africa’s number one leader in terms of the world’s largest concentration of gold, antimony, bauxite, chromite, cobalt, diamond, fluorite, hafnium, manganese, phosphate rock, platinum metals, titanium, vanadium, vermiculite and zirconium. Africa covers up to 6% of world demand for aluminum, cement, coal, copper, graphite, iron ore, lead, steel and zinc. Thirty-one percent (31%) of worldwide demand for bauxite, cobalt, manganese, phosphate and uranium are also provided by this region. The major export items of Africa are all but 57% of global demand for chrome, diamonds and gold. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa are resource-rich countries with largely untapped deposits of gold, diamonds, iron ore, bauxite (25 billion tons), chromium, uranium, rutile, tantalite and titanium. Since pure natural resources have an important role in these countries are also leading the way in good governance practices that have in the past five years has become increasingly important, now is the development of public-private partnerships promoted in order to make use of innovations and thus moving projects forward.

Safe Harbor Statement under the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The statements contained herein that are not historical acts, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, particularly certain delays beyond the Company’s control, with respect to market acceptance of new technologies or products, delays in testing or evaluation of products and other risks described in each of the filings be firm with the Securities and Exchange Commission said.

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Gamble with mineral commodities as raw materials
For international business wins systematic management of mineral commodities costs in importance. Consultants see pent-up demand. To reduce the dependence of large mineral commodity suppliers, smaller companies will now also be encouraged.

COLOGNE. Not a defect is to blame, the problem is poor planning: turbulence in the commodity markets, as they were felt everywhere recently, procurement experts will present challenges. The demand for technical innovations had not been detected and had led to miscalculations in the commodity markets, says the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in the study “mineral commodities for future technologies.”

At one point, the good news is of a threatening shortage of mineral commodities or no question: the “static resources range” of chromium amounts to about 600 years, 280 years of titanium and cobalt 220 years. But globalization is creating unrest in the markets, “New entrants from emerging markets, particularly China, have caused unexpectedly strong impetus to the commodity demand,” says the Fraunhofer study.

Risks in the supply chain

From such scenarios need for consultation arises: is the reason for the procurement of mineral commodities each company on their own, says Lars Immerthal, head of risk management and commodity purchasing the Brainnet Supply Management Consultants. “In most strategically important resources is the individual companies towards oligopolistic structures,” the consultant observed. General should build each commodity-dependent businesses a risk management that encompasses the entire supply chain, from suppliers to customers. A far-sighted planning has become increasingly important.

To make matters worse: Even strict regulations complicate the access to resources. Lamented the Federation of German Industries (BDI) in its strategy for mineral commodity security significant entry barriers. The BDI is already a feared commodity gap and called on the Federal Government and the European Commission to counter political. According to the EU Commission’s worldwide export restrictions on 400 commodities. Future technologies such as laser technology, electric propulsion and solar are not without copper, cobalt and rare metals to imagine. “Secure access to mineral commodities for German industry is of vital importance,” said BDI Director General Werner Schnappauf.

Aid has announced Economics Minister Rainer Brüderle. When in October created German commodity agency can check the company has presence and availability. Also wants the agency to proceed dependencies on specific markets, and closer cooperation with resource-rich developing countries.

Today I want to employ me again with one of the above mentioned specialty metals, the price shoots through the roof for months. Tantalum is an element of the vanadium group, also known as a strategic metal. It is often mistakenly become the rare earth elements in a pot has to do with this except the importance for the industry but nothing. It comes in the earth’s crust far less than that and is one of several extremely rare, but particularly important for the electronics heavy metals. It is associated in nature, always with varying amounts of niobium, as it were, its sister metal, which after the first discovery for a long time could not be separated from the tantalum. There is often also a joint presentation with tin, feldspar and lithium. Thus approximately 10% of the tantalum produced from the tin production, 20% of the offer can be recycled from scrap.

Tantalum is essential in many areas

More than half of the tantalum is used by the electronics industry and growing. Processed into extremely powerful micro-capacitors, it makes many modern devices such as smartphones possible. Without this metal you would have no powerful cell phone, no navigation system or an onboard computer in the car, no entertainment in the living room. In addition, it is essential for some medical implants because of its extreme reactivity. Third focus for use are super alloys for turbines and engines. They are affected by incorporation of tantalum and tungsten, particularly resistant and heat resistant. Similarly, tantalum is essential for the chemical industry in some areas. Although there are approaches to replace the expensive tantalum, niobium by the cheaper, which in many applications simply not possible.

The electronics industry complains of delivery problems

Why do I describe to you all this? Well, I have in the recent quarterly results, especially from the electronic notes struck again and again to supply problems, which overshadow the outlook of the company. Although the responsibility is often passed on to the suppliers, I have the suspicion that this problem has a very different background. And the states that supply problems with the increasing scarcity of tantalum! Therefore, I have traced this phenomenon more closely.

It is not enough to cover the primary tantalum demand on the market

Several causes are the father of this problem: How were shut down in 2008 because of several tantalum mines unprofitable. Not closed – they can be, in principle, relatively quickly set in motion. What story, however, lies behind this rather terse statement, is more than exciting. It provides enough material for an entire criminal history.

Material for more than a detective story

Probably to blame and at the same opponent in the tantalum market always appear above mentioned Talison Minerals, by 2008 the largest tantalum producer in the world and the German-American company HC Starck, world leader in tantalum processing. Minor characters in the drama are:

the German KFW Bank,

the Government of the Congo,

Congolese militant groups,

the extreme suffering Congolese civilian population,

the U.S. Senate,

various non-government organizations

the microelectronic industry,

the Australian developer of a tantalum mine Gippsland LTD.

Canadian Explorer Commerce Resources

Consumers who want to buy more powerful, but cheap microelectronics.

The object of desire of course is the tantalum and thus earning money. No wonder, since the price of this rare metal of 38 USD / lb (December 2009) at least 95 USD / lb increase. No, they must now do not look after its share prices. It does not exist. Tantalum is traded only on spot prices or fixed purchase contracts. The exact prices and quantities of completed transactions are not even published. One reason why it came to this crime, which could now bring the electronics industry in distress.

With horror, I just throw a glance at the clock and realize that time is unfortunately no longer sufficient to tell you the resolution of mystery stories. So we move on to the issue of the Small Cap Daily Tuesday.

Interesting reading for your weekend

In the meantime, I can still recommend an interesting read for the weekend. Just the latest book by Mikael Henrik of Nauckhoff appeared in the financial publishing house. His theme is again “Strategic metals and rare earth metals, which were already part of his book in 2009 Metallic (my review then you can read again). His new book is a veritable compendium of knowledge about these interesting metals, without which our modern economy and technology would not be possible. Very interesting! I will discuss it soon here in detail.

Federal government wants to help

The EU has classified 14 mineral commodities critical because they have high economic importance, especially for the high-tech industry and involve both a high supply risk. The substances are: antimony, beryllium, cobalt, fluorite, gallium, germanium, graphite, indium, magnesium, niobium, platinum group metals, rare earth, tantalum and tungsten.
In most cases, there is a very high dependence on export markets such as China, Russia, Congo and Brazil. Many of these countries are considered as problematic in the political relations.

Federal Minister Rainer Brüderle (FDP) said yesterday at a conference of the BDI industry association, the government would now support the industry.

Brüderle will respond to G-20 level, the issue, promote recycling of raw materials and curb speculation in commodities. The main responsibility is to remain with the company.

The electric industry association ZVEI warns: “The situation could be close to some of our businesses,” said ZVEI chief economist Andreas Gontermann.

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