Merc International Minerals Inc. ("Merc") (TSX VENTURE:MRK) announces today that
it has retained SRK Consulting ("SRK") to complete a mineral resource evaluation
and preparation of a National Instrument (NI) 43-101 compliant technical report
on Merc's Damoti Lake Gold Project, located 200 km north of Yellowknife,
Northwest Territories. SRK is recognized as a world leader in providing
technical consulting services to the mineral exploration industry.


"We are extremely pleased to have SRK working with us and look forward to the
completion of an updated resource in early 2010 " states Dr. Michael Byron,
Merc's President and CEO. "This resource evaluation represents an important
milestone in Merc's goal of advancing Damoti into a significant gold deposit.


An exploration drill program has been underway since early July 2009 to verify
and expand the historic resource by infilling priority target areas, extending
mineralized zones along strike and to depth within the Horseshoe and Pyrite
Zones and to test similar mineralized structures 150 metres west of the
Horseshoe Zone within the Red Mountain, Pink Antler and Lookout Zones.


Merc also reports that selective re-sampling and analyses of historical drill
holes D97-278, D97-282, and D97-311 validate original gold assays and confirm
the high-grade tenor of the mineralization on the Damoti Lake project. Merc
re-sampled selected intervals from the historic holes using the remaining half
of the core that was then analysed using the metallics assay method, an industry
accepted assay procedure that identifies the presence and significance of coarse
gold in a sample. Assay results are summarized in the table below and compared
with the standard fire assay method results of 1997.




Damoti Lake Gold Project. Re-sampling results - historic individual samples
with visible gold.

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Drill Hole         1997 Fire Assays           Metallic Assays
                                            (new gold results)  Specks
           ---------------------------------------------------      of
             From      To  Length    Assay              Assay  Visible
               (m)     (m)     (m) (g/t Au)           (g/t Au)    Gold
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D97-278    245.75  246.80    1.20     8.33               9.85        4
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D97-282    101.90  102.90    1.00   109.71             116.50       63
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           103.90  104.90    1.00   104.43              85.40       18
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           104.90  105.90    1.00   114.80              30.40       11
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           244.20  245.20    1.00    26.50              36.80        2
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           246.20  246.90    0.90     6.90               4.40        3
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D97-311    244.80  245.60    0.80    28.08              19.15       10
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Merc also had samples of broader intervals of the historic holes analysed using
the metallics method. Assay results are summarized in the table below and
compared with the standard fire assay method results of 1997.




Damoti Lake Gold Project. Re-sampling Results. Historic Drill Holes D97-278,
D97-282

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Drill Hole   From      To  Length  1997 Fire    Metallic Assays
               (m)     (m)     (m)    Assays  (new gold results)
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                                     (g/t Au)           (g/t Au)
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D97-278    119.30  121.40    2.10       0.48               0.59
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           124.90  129.70    4.80       2.30               4.87
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           177.20  204.90   27.70       2.47               2.53
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           242.10  259.60   17.50       4.48               3.97
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D97-282    101.00  108.20    7.20      48.59              34.79
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           121.50  124.40    2.90       4.79               4.03
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           132.30  135.80    3.50      26.76               2.90
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           190.70  193.50    2.80       6.79               6.97
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           240.30  246.90    6.60       9.72              11.24
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D97-311     33.70   41.20    7.50       4.65               3.58
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            85.70  106.30   20.60       3.79               3.94
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           196.30  214.80   18.50       5.71               5.11
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           239.70  252.50   12.80       6.68               6.30
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           259.80  262.70    2.90       9.09               9.43
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Results compare exceptionally well, except for some high-grade samples and
composite intervals such as D97-282, footage 132.3 to 135.8, where the
re-sampled value is approximately a factor of 10 lower than the original value.
This can best be attributed to the variable nugget-like characteristics of the
Damoti gold mineralization. To address the nugget effect Merc is using the
metallics method to analyse all iron formation sections that host significant
sulphide mineralization and/or alteration.


Re-sampling was also intended to examine the mineralized shoulders of some
historic intersections to determine whether pulp metallic assaying would prove
effective in extending mineralization widths. Results proved inconclusive,
however one sample taken by Merc at the end of a mineralized interval in hole
D97-282 (147.0 m to 147.5 m), that was not sampled by the previous workers,
returned 19.20 g/t Au, better than twice the original adjacent sample. Merc
routinely samples all intersected iron formation to avoid such oversights.


A new NI 43-101 compliant resource will use all drilling results to date within
the Horseshoe Zone (135 drill holes) as well as the drilling completed in Merc's
2009 program (20 to 30 holes), and include approximately 63 holes not included
in the 1997 and 2004 resource estimates. Preliminary drill results and deposit
modelling confirm the potential for resource expansion.


Renmark Financial Communications Inc.

Additionally, Merc has retained the services of Renmark Financial Communications
Inc. to handle its investor relation's activities.


"We are pleased to announce that we have selected Renmark to reinforce Merc
International Minerals' profile in the financial community and enhance the
visibility of our project portfolio. We choose Renmark because its standards and
methodologies fit best with the message we wish to communicate to the investing
public," noted Merc's CEO, Dr. Michael Byron.


In consideration of the services to be provided, the Company has agreed to pay a
monthly retainer of $3,500 for a one-year contract to Renmark Financial
Communications Inc. Renmark Financial Communications does not have any interest,
directly or indirectly, in Merc International Minerals Inc. or its securities,
or any right or intent to acquire such an interest.


Quality Control

Merc International Minerals, Inc. has implemented a quality-control program to
ensure best practice in the sampling and analysis of the drill core. NQ-size
drill core is saw cut and half the drill core is sampled in standard intervals
not exceeding 1.5 metres in length while core from the main mineralized horizons
or core displaying visible gold or significant sulfides are sampled in greater
detail generally not exceeding 1 metre in length. The remaining half core is
stored in a secure location.


Core samples are transported in security-sealed bags for analyses at ALS Chemex
Assay Laboratory in Vancouver, BC. ALS Chemex is an ISO 9001:2000 certified
laboratory. Gold assaying is done by a fire assay - atomic absorption
spectrometry method on a 30-gram charge of a 1000 gram pulp. Samples returning
values exceeding 3 g/t Au are re-checked by fire assay with a gravimetric
finish. Pulp and metallics assaying for gold is conducted on the entire
pulverized sample for all samples within the main mineralized horizons and those
samples with visible gold or significant sulfides.


As part of its QA/QC program, Merc International Minerals inserts external gold
standards (low to high grade) and blanks every 20 samples. This is in addition
to the standards, blanks and pulp duplicates inserted by ALS Chemex. In
addition, samples of pulps have been collected from ten percent of all samples
analyzed and will be submitted to a second independent laboratory for comparison
purposes.


The Damoti Lake Gold Project is being supervised by William Waychison,
M.Sc.A.,P.Geo, the Qualified Person (QP) for this project.


This news release may contain forward-looking statements based on assumptions
and judgments of management regarding future events or results. Such statements
are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties which could cause actual
events or results to differ materially from those reflected in the
forward-looking statements. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to
revise or update such statements.
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