Imperial Reports on Drilling at the Catface Property 

VANCOUVER, BC - Imperial Metals Corporation reported the first diamond drill hole of the 2010 Catface exploration program, CF-10-56, intersected 275.5 metres grading 0.60% copper and 0.014% molybdenum within a 755.0 metre mineralized section grading 0.46% copper and 0.006% molybdenum. The exploration program is scheduled for six drill holes, expected to be completed by the end of September. Subsequent holes will test the Irishman Creek zone (located north of the Cliff zone), the area between Irishman Creek zone and the Cliff zone, and the southern extent of the Cliff zone.

Hole CF-10-56 was designed to test Cliff zone mineralization in a north-south direction. It was drilled sub-parallel to and extends to the north and south of an 857 metre adit driven by Falconbridge in 1970. The mineralization consists of fracture controlled and disseminated chalcopyrite, bornite and molybdenite. The Cliff zone also contains silver mineralization. Silver assays in the higher grade 275.5 metre interval averaged 3.52 g/t silver. The mineralized interval in CF-10-56 improves on the grade obtained from sampling of the underground workings that it parallels which averaged 0.37% copper over an interval of 719.3 metres. The Catface property is located on Catface Mountain (locally known as Chetarpe) at tidewater on the western edge of the Catface Peninsula on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, approximately13 kilometres north-northwest of Tofino. The copper/molybdenum porphyry deposit is hosted within both volcanic rocks and porphyritic intrusives but is atypical of most calc-alkalic porphyry deposits in British Columbia in that it lacks a pyritic halo or a distinct phyllic alteration envelope. This lack of pyrite means this deposit is unlikely to generate acidic mine drainage. Sampling of drainage from the Falconbridge underground workings has confirmed it is not generating acid. The company's address is 200 - 580 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 3B6, 604.669.8959, fax: 604.687.4030.