VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 18, 2010) - Pacific Wildcat Resources Corp. (TSX VENTURE:PAW) ("PAW" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the results from PAW's inaugural 1,473 metre Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling program completed in November 2009 targeting Tantalum and Lithium mineralisation at the Company's Muiane Project in northern Mozambique.

Significant high grade tantalum intersections were returned from RC holes at Muiane, including:

NH127: 16m at 1,047 g/t Ta₂0₅, including 8m at 1,865 g/t Ta₂0_5,

NH139: 11m at 708 g/t Ta₂0₅, including 5m at 1,158 g/t Ta₂0_5, and

NH132: 7m at 373 g/t Ta₂0₅, including 2m at 740 g/t Ta₂0_5.

Significant intersections of Lithium were also returned at Muiane with:

NH139: 12m at 1.411% Li₂0, including 2m at 2.605% Li₂0, and

NH138: 2m at 1.275% Li₂0.

In addition PAW is pleased to report intersections from Company's first drilling program at its Maridge Prospect, located 7km North West of Muiane with a best tantalum intersection of: 

MA003: 2m at 265 g/t Ta₂0₅.

Detail on the assay methods and intersection calculations including a full list of results is given at the end of this News Release. Please note that intersection widths are down hole lengths.

This limited initial 1,473m RC drilling program has achieved its three aims of;

1) Testing for potential extensions to the historical tantalum mineralisation at the Muiane Mine,

2) Drilling two "twin" holes to get a better understanding of the historic Lithium drilling information at Muiane Mine, and

3) Drilling the first known drill holes at the Maridge Pit to confirm its potential for Tantalum mineralisation.

The first phase of the drilling focused on the Spirit Valley area located immediately east of the existing Indicated Mineral Resource of 1,375,000 tonnes @ 250 g/t Ta₂O₅ containing 750,000_(i) pounds of Ta₂O₅ at Muiane. The Spirit Valley is the location of substantial historic mining. Nuggets bearing Ta2O5 (Tantalum) mineralisation were recovered from the walls of this historic mining area by the Pacific Wildcat Exploration team in 2007. The following plan shows the location of the RC drill collars in the Spirit Valley in relation to the existing Indicated Mineral Resource.

To view Figure 1 please click on the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/PAWFigure1.pdf

The following cross sections show the significant intersections (Ta₂O₅>100 g/t) in the Spirit Valley area.

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The difference in results from the historic holes NH074, RC21 and new holes NH128 and NH127 show what may be a substantial nugget effect but further work will need to be conducted to gain a better understanding of the differences in Tantalum assays in this area over short distances.

The second phase of drilling focused on the drilling of two twin holes (NH138 and NH139) in the Litica zone of the resource_(i) at Muiane.

As reported in the National Instrument 43-101 technical report titled "Technical Report on the Mineral Assets of Tantalum Mineração and Prospecção Limitada", dated 25^th May 2009, ITM Mining Limited ("ITM") carried out an extensive mineral processing and geological sampling program at Muiane from May to June, 1999. A total of 24 RC drill holes were drilled to depths of between 26m and 70m for a total of 973m of which 909m was assayed. Although ITM did assay for Ta₂O₅ and Li₂O, there is limited information on the quality control and assaying techniques used. What can be reported is that lithium mineralisation was encountered in over 80% of the total RC samples assayed in both the Litica Zone and quartz / spodumene zones.

The following indicative cross section gives the significant intersections of Lithium and Tantalum mineralisation in holes NH138 and NH139 within this area of the resource_(i).

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The third phase of the drilling was the drilling of three RC holes at the Maridge mine located seven kilometres North West of the Muiane Mine. The Maridge pit is the location of extensive historic mining for Tantalum. The pit is over 400m in length and approximately 20m deep. No mining has occurred at Maridge since 1974. These holes, the first drilled in modern times, intersected a zone of mineralisation at the north eastern end of the pit. The following plan shows the location of the three drill holes.

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These tantalum intersections are particularly promising given only three holes were drilled and due to access problems the holes were not able to be drilled in an optimal location. These results are important as it proves the concept of Tantalum mineralisation at Maridge. As the mineralisation is open to the North East further drill holes will be planned in this area for the next drill program once drill access has been improved.

ABOUT PAW

With licences totalling over 450 square kilometres, PAW is the largest single private licence holder on the Alto Ligonha pegmatite belt in northern Mozambique, a belt which contains a number of historic tantalum and lithium mine workings including the Muiane mine.

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PAW TEAM HAVE EXTENSIVE TANTALUN AND LITHIUM EXPERIENCE

The PAW team has extensive experience in the mining, processing and marketing of tantalum and lithium. From 2001 to 2004, PAW director Mr David Paull was responsible for selling of over half the world's tantalum and two thirds of the world's hard rock lithium production in his role as Executive General Manager of Marketing and Business Development for Sons of Gwalia in Western Australia.

Mr David Bale, a geologist and metallurgist by background, consults to PAW. Mr Bale has over 30 years experience in the tantalum and lithium mining industry including a period as Managing Director of Lithium Australia Limited. From 1996 to 2007, Mr Bale was Executive General Manager of the Minerals Division for Sons of Gwalia. During this period he was responsible for managing the production of over half the world's tantalum and two thirds of the world's hard rock lithium.

Mr Darren Townsend, PAW's President/CEO, is a mining engineer with over 15 years mining industry experience. Mr Townsend was previously General Manager at the Wodgina tantalum mine in Western Australia where over a period of five years he was instrumental in overseeing the expansion of the operation into what was then the world's largest Tantalum operation.

SHORT TERM COMPANY STRATEGY

Work has commenced on analysing the results from this limited initial RC drill program in the context of the existing resource_(i) at Muiane and historic exploration work completed on the property. Whilst planning for the next drilling program is being undertaken the Company has begun an extensive trenching program on its exploration licences with the aim of identifying additional drill targets. The Company's strategy at Muiane is to aggressively explore delineated tantalum targets on the licences with the objective of adding to the existing tantalum resource base and gaining a better understanding of the lithium potential of the properties. The Company is currently considering a number of Tantalum processing options for Muiane and is advanced in identifying a suitable treatment plant to allow for metallurgical testwork/initial small scale production.

SUMMARY

The Chairman Mr Terry Lyons said today, "These high grade results from PAW's first drill program since closing the transaction to acquire the properties is an excellent result for the exploration team. Given the success of this first program it is the aim of the company to step up its exploration effort with the aim of commencing Tantalum production at Muiane within the next 12 months."

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF PACIFIC WILDCAT RESOURCES CORP.

Darren Townsend, President

_(i) As reported in the National Instrument 43-101 technical report titled "Technical Report on the Mineral Assets of Tantalum Mineração and Prospecção Limitada", dated 25^th May 2009 and as prepared by Global Mining Services.

The Company wishes to clarify that certain information in this news release is based on historic data and references and has not been verified.

TABLE 1 – TANTALUM INTERSECTIONS – RC DRILL RESULTS

Prospect	HOLE ID	East	North	Hole Depth (m)	From (m)	To	Interval (m)	Ta2O5 (ppm)
						(m)
Muiane	NH127**	420,186	8,260,229	70	12	28	16	1047*
				* incl.	12	20	8	1,865
					32	40	8	160
					6	7	1	130
					10	13	3	290
	NH128	420,182	8,260,224	100	17	19	2	205
					38	42	4	145
					69	70	1	170
					72	78	6	183
					0	2	2	105
					13	15	2	245
	NH129	420,189	8,260,235	76	18	28	10	223*
				*incl.	18	19	1	610
					32	42	10	224
					64	65	1	100
	NH129A	420,184	8,260,243	100	12	20	8	270
					24	32	8	190
	NH130	420,135	8,260,194	125	12	15	3	193
					62	63	1	170
					16	20	4	230
	NH131	420,214	8,260,213	110	32	40	8	235
					76	84	8	260
					12	13	1	790
					16	23	7	373*
				*incl.	16	18	2	740
	NH132	420,225	8,260,210	63	26	30	4	235
					33	36	3	173
					39	40	1	260
					45	58	13	174
	NH133	420,208		75	20	30	10	181
			8,260,155		33	36	3	203
					63	64	1	160
	NH134	420,239	8,260,144	100	60	64	4	110
	NH135	420,152	8,260,252	100	0	4	4	222
					18	20	2	265
					23	26	3	227
	NH138**	419,934	8,260,056	30	1	6	5	134
					8	9	1	100
	NH139**	422,075	8,260,027	30	4	15	11	708*
				*incl.	4	9	5	1,158
					22	27	5	148
	NH140	420,235	8,260,146		2	3	1	150
				94	57	58	1	130
					80	81	1	100
					1	2	1	150
					3	4	1	110
					5	6	1	270
					9	10	1	130
					16	17	1	180
					19	21	2	175
	NH142	420,225	8,260,217	100	23	36	13	228
					37	38	1	110
					40	48	8	315*
				*incl.	41	42	1	950
					52	59	7	267
					86	87	1	140
					92	93	1	260
					36	38	2	265
Maridge	MA003	415,343	8,263,569	100	92	93	1	220
					94	95	1	140

Note: Co ordinates are MGA zone 37.
No attempt has been made to correct for the true widths as the orientation of the mineralization is not well understood.
Holes drilled to on a dip at approximately -55° except where marked with ** (Vertical holes)
Intersections calculated using a 100 g/t Ta₂O₅ lower cut-off with a maximum of 2m internal dilution.
Holes NH127, NH131 and NH134 samples are preliminary 4 metre composite RC chips, all other results are 1m riffle split samples. Analysis is by Nagrom Laboratories using Fused Disk XRF Assay analysis for Ta₂O₅.

TABLE 2 – LITHIUM INTERSECTIONS – RC DRILL RESULTS

HOLE ID	East	North	Hole Depth (m)	From (m)	To	Interval (m)	Li2O (%)
					(m)
NH138**	419,934	8,260,056	30	0	14	14	0.713*
			* incl.	11	13	2	1.275
				17	18	1	0.76
				21	23	2	0.86
				29	30	1	0.65
NH139**	422,075	8,260,027	30	3	15	12	1.411*
			*incl.	5	7	2	2.605
NH142	420,225	8,260,217	100	36	40	4	1.17

Note: Co ordinates are MGA zone 37.
Holes drilled to on a dip at approximately -55° except where marked with ** (Vertical holes)
Intersections calculated using a 0.5% Li₂O lower cut-off with a maximum of 3m internal dilution.
Holes NH142 samples are preliminary 4 metre composite RC chips, all other results are 1m riffle split samples. Analysis is by Nagrom Laboratories using Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) analyses for Li₂0.

A Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) program forms part of the drilling, sampling and assay program on the Muiane Project. This program includes chain of custody protocol as well as systematic submittal of certified reference materials and blank samples into the flow of samples produced by the drilling.

QUALIFIED PERSON

Qualified Person: Michael John Sperinck, BSc – Geology and Chemistry, MAusIMM, an independent consultant with Global Mining Services and qualified person under the NI 43-101, and as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves' has reviewed the technical contents relating to the Muiane mine for this news release and helped supervise the exploration programs undertaken by Pacific Wildcat Resources Corp.

Mr Sperinck consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears. Mr Sperinck has sufficient experience, which is relevant to the style of mineralization and type of deposit under consideration with more than 25 years of experience in the mining industry.