Kipoi Copper Project Stage 1 Construction Update

PERTH, Western Australia, March 17 /CNW/ --
On track for April 2011 commencement of production

PERTH, Western Australia, March 17 /CNW/ - Tiger Resources Limited
(ASX:TGS) (TSX:TGS) is pleased to advise that construction has
continued to proceed safely and on budget during February for the Stage
1 development at the Kipoi Copper Project in the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC).

Tiger expects to complete plant construction and commence commissioning
during March 2011, with commercial production commencing in April 2011.
The Company expects to produce approximately 35,000 tonnes per annum of
copper for three years from the first stage of the development at
Kipoi.

The development team has achieved 353,852 man-hours without lost-time
injury to the end of February 2011.

Contractor's Group Five and DRA now have more than 70 technical
personnel at site to complete the piping installation and electrical
wiring, along with the owner's commissioning team. The process facility
is estimated to be 95% complete. The primary crusher and the three
generators have recently been delivered to site with installation and
commissioning of this equipment planned. DRA has scheduled 19 days for
commissioning of the HMS plant allowing first production of copper
concentrate to occur during April.

BACKGROUND

The Kipoi Project covers an area of 55 square kms and is located 75km
north‐north‐west of the city of Lubumbashi in the Katanga Province of
the DRC. The project contains a 12km sequence of mineralised Roan
sediments that host at least five known deposits: Kipoi Central, Kipoi
North, Kileba, Judeira and Kaminafitwe.

The Company has reported JORC-standard resources at three of the
deposits. The principle deposit is Kipoi Central which contains a zone
of high grade copper mineralisation within a much larger lower grade
global resource.

The Company proposes a staged development at the Kipoi Project. The high
grade zone of mineralisation at Kipoi Central is proposed to be
exploited during the Stage 1 development. During the three year life of
Stage 1 a total of 900,000tpa of 7% Cu is planned to be processed
through an HMS plant to produce the equivalent of 35,000tpa of copper.

The Company is currently undertaking a feasibility study to evaluate the
economic viability of constructing an SXEW plant (Stage 2) targeted to
come on stream within three years of the start of the HMS operation. It
is envisaged that ore from Kipoi Central, Kipoi North and Kileba South
and the other deposits within the Kipoi Project and within the nearby
Lupoto Project would be processed at the Stage 2 phase.

Caution Regarding Forward Looking Statements: The forward-looking
statements made in this news release are based on assumptions and
judgments of management regarding future events and results. Such
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results,
performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different
from any anticipated future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors
include, among others, the actual market prices of copper, cobalt and
silver, the actual results of current exploration, the actual results
of future mining, processing and development activities, changes in
project parameters as plans continue to be evaluated, as well as those
factors disclosed in the Company's filed documents.

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