Puma Exploration Reached a Depth of 1,290 Meters With its Hole FND13-02 and Begins a Third Hole at Nicholas-Denys Project, New Brunswick

RIMOUSKI, QUÉBEC--(Marketwired - Aug. 12, 2013) - Puma Exploration (TSX VENTURE:PUM) reports progress on drilling operation at Nicholas-Denys Property. Drill hole FND13-02 was drilled to 1,290 meters to test a surface soil Cu-Mo anomalies and an high mag geophysical anomaly at depth. Visual alteration and mineralization was encountered trough the entire hole with more intense fracturation and sulphide veinlets from surface to 100m and then from 300m to 850 meters.

Following the second hole, Puma decided to increase its planned drilling program to include two more drill holes in the vinicity of hole FND13-02. Hole FND13-03 is collared at the same location than hole FND13-02 but in north-west direction to define the fracturation patern in the center of the low mag area of the porphyry. The fourth hole is designed as a step out hole 200 meters north of hole FND13-02.

1,542 samples were collected over the entire hole FND13-02 and are being analysed for base, precious and speciality metals. Alteration study is also in progress to qualify and quantify the alteration encountered through the entire hole and from previous puma's holes. Following the drilling operation, borehole geophysical survey will be conducted in the six deep holes drilled in the pluton since 2012.

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Puma Exploration is a Canadian mineral exploration company with advanced precious and base metals projects in Canada. The Company's major assets are the Nicholas-Denys Project and Turgeon Copper Project in New Brunswick and the Little Stull Lake Gold Project in Manitoba. Puma is focusing its exploration efforts in New Brunswick, Canada, which has been ranked fourth in the world to conduct mining exploration by the 2013 Fraser Institute Survey.

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The contents of this press release were prepared by Dominique Gagné. a Qualified Person as defined in NI 43-101. The samples were analyzed at the ALS Chemex laboratory in Val d'Or using the atomic absorption and ICP methods. There is not enough drilling data presently available to determine the shape and true width of the mineralized zone. Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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