Fairmont Resources Inc. Commences Exploration on Marmion South Contact Property, Ontario

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire - June 8, 2011) - Fairmont Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: FMR) ("Fairmont") is pleased to announce that exploration has commenced on its Marmion South Contact Property ("Marmion Property"), an 8,208 hectare project approximately 200 km west of Thunder Bay, Ontario (see Fairmont's January 11, 2011 news release for details on the Marmion Property and the option agreement). The property lies immediately north and east of the town of Atikokan and is contiguous with the large claim holdings of Osisko Mining Corporation ("Osisko") to the north, which host the Hammond Reef deposit (6.7 million ounce NI 43-101 compliant gold resource in 'Inferred' category - www.osisko.com).

Coast Mountain Geological Ltd. has been contracted to carry out the exploration program, whose initial phase consists of the examination of areas of historical prospecting, sampling, trenching and drilling along a potentially 3 km long corridor in sheared and altered volcanic and gabbros in the southern part of the property. The Olcott prospect occurs at the southwest end of this corridor, where historical drill intercepts of up to 2.51 g/T gold over 10.8 metres have been reported. In addition, a number of shears and lineaments within the Marmion batholith will be prospected and sampled to evaluate the potential for occurrences similar to Hammond Reef. Mr Dewonck notes: "Osisko plans to drill in excess of 300,000m on and around the Hammond Reef deposit in 2011, and has completed extensive till sampling over its claim holdings. This level of activity is indicative of a belief in significant exploration potential in the region. Fairmont's objective on the Marmion Property is to confirm values in previously documented occurrences in order to define potential drilling targets, and to develop new targets in previously underexplored areas of the property in view of recent successes in similar geological environments."

Bernard Dewonck, P.Geo, Fairmont's CEO and President, is a Qualified Person as defined under NI 43-101 and is responsible for supervision of the work program on the Property. Mr. Dewonck has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this news release.


On behalf of the board,

Bernard Dewonck
President



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