CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Sept. 28, 2010) - TVI Pacific Inc. (TSX:TVI)(OTCQX:TVIPF) ("TVI" or "the Company") announced today that its Philippine operating affiliate, TVI Resource Development (Phils.), Inc. ("TVIRD"), completed its seventeenth shipment of copper concentrates produced at the Canatuan Mine on September 24, 2010.

--  Gross revenue expected from seventeenth shipment US$8.2 million
--  Gross revenue year to date US$59.0 million
--  Copper concentrates shipped year to date 36,575 dmt

Copper production remains steady at Canatuan and concentrate grade levels have been kept around 20 percent. Current production plans call for maintaining production at these concentrate grade levels in preparation for the next shipment scheduled in approximately six weeks.

The concentrates were shipped from the TVIRD warehouse facility at Santa Maria Port in Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte, in accordance with the offtake arrangement previously entered into between TVIRD and MRI Trading AG ("MRI"). TVIRD expects to earn gross revenues of US$8.2 million from MRI for 5,290 dry metric tonnes ("dmt") of copper concentrates.

The offtake agreement provides that MRI will purchase all of the copper concentrates produced at Canatuan over the anticipated life of the sulphide operation. After the seventeenth shipment, inventory of about 16.3 dmt remained in the Port Sta. Maria warehouse.

About TVI Pacific Inc. (TSX:TVI)(OTCQX:TVIPF)

TVI Pacific Inc. is a publically traded copper producer focused on the production, development, exploration and acquisition of precious and base metal mining deposits in the Philippines. The Company's interest in the Canatuan Mine and its other Philippine assets are held through its affiliate, TVI Resource Development (Phils.), Inc.

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        ian.mccoll@tvipacific.com

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