Virgin Metals Announces the Listing of its Common Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TSX May 10, 2010 Symbol: VGM

Virgin Metals Announces the Listing of its Common Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange

Virgin Metals Inc. ("Virgin Metals” or the "Company) is pleased to announce that the Company has received approval to lists its common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange (the “TSXV”). The Company’s common shares will commence trading on the TSXV on May 11, 2010 under its current symbol VGM. As advised on January 19, 2010, the Company’s Board of Director’s believe that a listing on the TSXV is appropriate for an emerging junior exploration company such as Virgin Metals.

About Virgin Metals

Virgin Metals is a junior exploration and development company; its projects include two coppermolybdenum porphyry properties in Sonora, northern Mexico. One of these, Los Verdes, has been the subject of a pre-feasibility study and is expected to evolve rapidly towards production while the other, Cuatro Hermanos, has been the focus of an intense exploration effort.

For further information, please contact: 

Lucas Ewart, Phone: (416) 488‐2590