Guinness Exploration Raises U.S.$1.5 Million to Fund Nantawa Project

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Guinness Exploration Inc. ('Guinness') (OTC Bulletin Board: GNXP) today announced completion of a private placement which raises sufficient capital for the first stage of the Nantawa Project.

"Guinness has achieved another major milestone in our development of the Nantawa Project," said President and CEO Alastair Brown. "With completion of this unit offering we've raised U.S.$1.5 million, which is sufficient to implement the first stage of our Nantawa development plans. We're currently developing plans for a summer drilling program and expect this financing will support that initiative."

This financing raised aggregate proceeds of U.S.$1,500,000 and was comprised of a unit ('Unit') sale by Guinness of 1,875,000 Units priced at U.S.$0.80 per Unit for one share of common stock in the capital of Guinness (each, a "Share"); and one common share purchase warrant (each a "Warrant") subject to adjustment. Each whole Warrant is non-transferable and entitles the holder to purchase one common share of Guinness (each, a "Warrant Share"), as presently constituted, for a period of twenty four months beginning February 10, 2010 at a price per Warrant Share of U.S.$2.00. These Units are being issued pursuant to Regulation S of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Regulation S") and Guinness did not engage in any general solicitation or advertising regarding this Unit offering.

About Guinness Exploration

Guinness Exploration Inc. trades on the OTC-BB under the symbol GNXP. The Company was incorporated in Nevada in 2006 and incorporated its subsidiary Nantawa Resources Inc. in Yukon, Canada in 2009. In November, 2009 Guinness entered an agreement to acquire mineral claims for the Mount Nansen and the Tawa gold and silver exploration properties (collectively the 'Nantawa Project') in the Yukon and is now developing an exploration program. The Nantawa Project is situated in the prolific Tintina Gold Belt, a 1,200 km long area extending from northern British Columbia, through the Yukon Territory and into southwest Alaska. The Tintina Gold Belt includes such world-class, multi-million ounce gold deposits as Pogo, Fort Knox, True North, and Donlin Creek. The Nantawa Project claims consist of 203 full or fractional claims with a total area of 3,136.43 square hectares located in the South Central part of the Yukon, 180 km Northwest of Whitehorse and 60 km west of the Village of Carmacks. A complete independent geological report received by Guinness, dated November 27, 2009, can be viewed on Guinness' website: www.guinnessexploration.com.

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