CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - July 23, 2007) - TVI Pacific Inc. ("TVI" or the "Company") (TSX:TVI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Joseph Bronneberg as Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer effective July 23, 2007. Mr. Bronneberg will report to Clifford M. James, TVI's President and Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Bronneberg has over 25 years of experience in senior financial positions with a number of major companies, both international and domestic, involved in the exploration and production of natural resources. In addition to more than 10 years of experience in the western Canadian mining industry, Mr. Bronneberg has also been involved in international oil and gas exploration and development, and in oil well contract drilling operations. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm.) degree from the University of Alberta (1976) and has been a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants since 1978.

I am extremely pleased to welcome Joe to the TVI Pacific team," said Cliff James, President and CEO of TVI. "With his extensive experience and his in-depth knowledge of the resource sector, Joe will be a key member of the executive team as TVI continues to firmly build its platform for growth."

About TVI Pacific Inc. (TSX:TVI)

TVI Pacific Inc. is a publicly traded Canadian mining company focused on exploring for and producing precious and base metals within district scale systems in Asia.

In the Philippines, TVI's most advanced project, the Canatuan Mine (the first foreign-invested, new, mining project in the Philippines since the passage of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995), began mining and milling operations in mid-2004, producing gold and silver dore through its affiliate TVI Resource Development (Phils.) Ltd. ("TVIRD") In 2006, TVIRD received a completed NI 43-101 feasibility study on the Canatuan Sulphide project prepared by Norwest Corporation. The report has been filed with certain securities regulatory authorities in Canada and is available through the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com. The Norwest study addresses the copper-zinc bearing massive sulphide zone, or lower portion of the Canatuan Deposit. Construction of the Sulphide Project at Canatuan is now underway. In addition, TVIRD holds a 2.5% NSR on the Philippine-based Rapu Rapu project operated by Lafayette Mining Ltd. Exploration in the Philippines is being conducted at Canatuan, in an effort to expand TVIRD's mineral resource base and to find new deposits, at Balabag and at other areas which management of TVI view as compelling exploration properties.

In China, TVI's wholly-owned Chinese subsidiary, Hunan Pacific Geological Exploration Inc. ("HPGEI"), was the first foreign mining company to be granted both WOFE status and a Qualified Explorer License. The exploration program in China is focused primarily within the Golden Triangle area, a prospective metallogenic region in China's south-western provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi Autonomous Region, and prospective areas in the Tibet Autonomous Region. HPGEI has 2,394 km2 of land under application in China in the Golden Triangle and in the Tibet A.R.

TVI also has a Drilling Segment consisting of Exploration Drilling Corporation ("EDCO"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TVI Pacific Inc. based in the Philippines, and Hunan Pacific Drilling ("HPD"), a segment of HPGEI based in China, which generates revenue from contract drilling.

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