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February 24, 2004
Press Release                        Tam O'Shanter gold drill results
     George Stewart reports the completion of Kettle River’s 1,400m drill program on Tam O’Shanter project located in Southern BC near the City of Greenwood.  The Wild Rose Vein was intersected in seven of eight drill holes. The Wild Rose Zone consists of one to three quartz veins associated with a strong shear zone.  The vein and shear zone have been shown to be very persistent both in width and continuity.  Diamond drill holes encountering the vein were from a fan of drill holes on section from two setups 135 meters apart.
     The drill program was designed to test areas of past poor recovery and to better define the vein. The NQ sized core obtained by Beaupre Drilling obtained good core recovery indicating the upper portion of the vein although well mineralized with quartz and sulphides is of low gold content.
     The deepest hole from the northern section of four holes may have intersected an extension of a zone approximately 150m below surface encountered in the 1995 and 1992 drilling.  Core lengths over 1.2m graded 20.16 g/t Au (0.58 opt) and over 3.3m graded 7.3 g/t Au (0.23opt.)  The last hole of the present program 04-08 intersected 1.1m of 10.85 g/t gold, (0.32opt) 60m NW of the previous intercepts at the same elevations.  Indicated true width of the higher grade section of the vein is a 0.63 meters within a five metre wide shear and quartz vein with an approximate dip of 65 degrees to the east.
     A 1992 drill hole encountered a quartz vein with visible gold assaying 25.1 g/t Au (0.73opt) over 1.03m.  This was a –45degree hole drilled approximately perpendicular to the strike and dip of the Wild Rose vein encountering the vein at 215m and appears to be a vein parallel to the Wild Rose vein.  The indicated Wild Rose deep zone below holes 92-20, 95-02 and 04-08 remains untested.  The presence of gold values with consistent width over a 60m strike length is regarded as encouraging and further work is being planned.
Significant intersections are as follows:

DDH

Angle

From (Metres)

To (Metres)

Width (Metres)

Au(grams/t)

04-01

-60

101.2

102.4

1.2

1.04

04-02

-90

201.2
206.4

202.5
207.3

1.4
0.9

1.12
2.56

04-03

-81

159.8
165.8

163.7
166.7

3.9
0.9

0.88
2.28

04-04

-90

90.1

90.5

0.4

0.52

04-05

-45

116.1
117.1

117.1
118.6

1.0
1.5

2.84
0.74

04-06

-63

142.0

143.25

1.25

2.25

04-07

-75

176.95
177.8

177.65
179.5

0.7
0.7

0.44
0.93

04-08

-82

210.1

211.2

1.1

10.85

     Holes 04-01 to 04-03 were drilled on one setup, Section 605E, on a grid established for this program, hole 04-04 on the second setup was vertical and abandoned at 176m due to bad ground, and holes 04-05 to 04-08 were on the third setup, Section 470E grid. 
      These sections and a drill plan are available on the website: click here
    
     Data obtained from this and previous drill programs suggest grades improving with depth.  Holes 04-02 and 04-08 intersected the structure approximately 200m below surface.  A previous hole, 95-02, encountered 20.16 g/t Au over 1.2m at a vertical depth of 150m on Section 530E.  This section has not yet been tested at depth.  Further to the southeast, on Section 675E, two previous holes cut the Wild Rose Zone and encountered gold values at depths of 50 and 100m.  This section also has not been tested at depth.  There are indications of a parallel structure to the northeast on Section 675, where a previous hole, 92-31, intersected a vein carrying 25.1 g/t Au over 1.03m.  Except for this one hole, the structure remains untested at the present time.
     Jim Hutter, PGeo, has reviewed and verified the technical information herein.  All assays were submitted for preparation and analysis to ALS Chemex at its facilities in Vancouver.  The analytic procedures were 34 element aqua regia ICP plus Au fire assay with AA finish for all samples, then gravimetric fire assay for samples between 1000 and 3000ppb Au or screen assay if greater than 3,000ppb Au.

Kettle River Resources Ltd.
“George O.M. Stewart”
President

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