TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 7, 2012) - Red Pine Exploration Inc. (News - Market indicators) (the "Company") has entered into an agreement with Probe Mines Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:PRB) ("Probe Mines") to sell its interest in the Ava-Claire property located in the province of Ontario, Canada. 

Under the Asset Purchase Agreement ("The Agreement"), which is subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval, Probe Mines has agreed to pay the Company $100,000, issue 100,000 of its common shares, and grant a net smelter royalty ("NSR") of 1.5% to the Company in exchange for a 100% interest in the Ava-Claire property. The securities to be issued will be subject to a restricted period of four months and one day from the date of issuance.

Red Pine Appoints New Officers

Red Pine is pleased to announce the appointment of Kirk McKinnon to the role of Chairman, Quentin Yarie, PGeo. to the role of President and Chief Operating Officer and Peter Liabotis, CA to the role of Chief Financial Officer. Elgin Wolfe will serve as Vice-Chairman and Richard Schler will serve as Executive Vice President.

In announcing these changes, Kirk McKinnon noted, "The company appreciates Elgin Wolfe's guidance and stewardship over his many years of service. We are happy that he remains as Vice Chairman and will continue to be involved with the strategic direction of the company." 

"During his almost three years with the company, Quentin Yarie has proven to be a knowledgeable geo-scientist and manager, one who understands our current properties and projects. His appointment will enable him to have strong input into the strategic direction of the company." 

"Peter Liabotis appointment recognizes both his skill set and progressive involvement with the company's finance and operational side of the business." 

About Red Pine's Properties

Costello Property - Timmins, Ontario

The Costello property is located along the Bristol fault, a splay of the Destor Porcupine Deformation Corridor immediately to the east of the Timmins Mine. At the Timmins mine, gold is hosted in mafic and ultramafic volcanic rock units and in sedimentary rock units of the Porcupine Group. The Timmins mine is located at the contact of the volcanic rocks and the sedimentary rocks.

The Costello property is underlain by strongly deformed and transposed sedimentary rock units of the Porcupine Group. Observation of outcrop has shown that the "sedimentary bedding" corresponds in fact to tectonic layering and that the rocks have experienced severe deformation. In a recent Lake Shore 43-101 report, it is mentioned that: "There has been a high degree of deformation in terms of shearing, folding, and likely faulting in the TM Deposit and the relationship of the primary lithologies is more complex in three dimensions than surface plans suggest."

Mt Logano Property - Timmins, Ontario

The Mt. Logano Porphyry property consists of 162 claim units in Whitney, Shaw, Carman and Cody townships, Porcupine Mining Division, Ontario. Bedrock on the property includes the Mt. Logano quartz-feldspar porphyry, which intruded near the Deloro-Tisdale assemblages contact. Much of the gold deposition in the Porcupine Gold Camp is spatially associated with mafic/ultramafic rocks of the Lower Tisdale assemblage, and felsic intrusive rocks similar to the Mt. Logano porphyry intrusion. Recent geochronological investigation (2005) has placed the age of the Mt. Logano porphyry body at 2689 +/-1.4 Ma, the same as the Pearl Lake porphyry (2689 +/- 1.0 Ma), which has played a spatial role in major gold deposits including the Hollinger-McIntyre mines of the Porcupine Gold camp.

The SaraCourt Property - Swayze Belt, Ontario

The SaraCourt Property is a regional land package of contiguous, high-potential gold properties totaling approximately 27,748 hectares of patented and unpatented mining lands. Located in and along the newly defined DZ3 Gold Deformation Corridor, this property holds a series of deformation zones and regional fault branches that host abundant gold showings and join the Destor-Porcupine Deformation Zone to the northeast, and join to the western extension of the Larder Lake Deformation Zone fault that branches to the southwest. The Destor-Porcupine Fault Zone is spatially associated with gold deposits in the Timmins-Porcupine Gold Camp that have produced more than 65 million ounces gold to date.

Fern Elizabeth Property, Atikokan, ON, Thunder Bay Mining District

Red Pine has a 75% interest in the Fern Elizabeth property which is located 9 kilometres northwest of the town of Atikokan, Ontario. The area has a rich mining and exploration heritage and was a major iron mining centre in the mid-1970's. More recently Osisko has identified an inferred resource of 6.70 million ounces of gold approximately 20km to the North East (Hammond Reef). The Fern Elizabeth property is approximately 11.0 square kilometres and contains 25 claims and leases. The property has excellent infrastructure with both all weather road and boat access. 

Soil sampling, geological mapping, prospecting, ground geophysical surveying and 8 diamond drill holes (1,490 m) were carried out to explore the Fern Elizabeth Property. Interesting intervals of gold mineralization was intersected in the vicinity of the historic No. 2 Shaft. Three of the intersections ranged from 3.0 to 12.2 grams per tonne gold.

More detailed information about the Company is available on the website: www.redpineexp.com

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