TRADE WINDS VENTURES INC. TSX.V: TWD • FSE: TVR Contact: Ian Lambert, President and CEO 1166 Alberni St., Ste 1006 Vancouver, BC Canada V6E 3Z3 Toll Free: 866-698-9187, X 228 Phone: 604-648-6228 Fax: 604-288-2436 E-Mail: info@tradewindsventures.com Web Site: www.tradewindsventures.com Shares Outstanding: 169.5 million Working Capital: ~C$6 million 52 Week Trading Range: TSX: Hi: C$0.475 Low: C$0.12

        Assets that include a 4.65 million ounce global gold resource located next to a soon-to-be-operating gold mine and backing by a joint venture partner that just happens to own that mine has understandably garnered considerable market interest in Trade Winds Ventures Inc. (TSX.V: TWD; FSE: TVR) -- www.tradewindsventures.com.
       Consider that this junior mining company currently has a nearly C$50 million market cap, and about C$6 million in cash.
       Trade Winds is probably worth four to six times our present value, according to a recent Research Report by First Canadian Securities,” says Trade Winds Ventures President and CEO Ian Lambert. “We will add to our resource base with drilling this year and next year. With the two-thirds of our stock held by the retail market, Trade Winds has a lot of liquidity and significant upside potential.”
       Trade Winds’ flagship project, Block A, encompasses 1,326-hectares on trend with Detour Gold’s 14.9 million ounce gold open-pit mine now under construction at a cost of C$1 billion. Detour Gold’s 60,000 tpd mill is expected to be completed in 2012 and make its first gold pour in 2013.
       Trade Winds also owns a 100% interest in the Dardanelle gold and Treasure Mountain copper properties in British Columbia. The properties have significant potential for mineralization, but development is on hold while Trade Winds focuses on its Ontario properties.

       Trade Wind Ventures’ Block A joint venture property lies within Canada’s prolific Abitibi greenstone belt, 260 km north of Timmins and adjacent to Detour Gold’s Detour Lake gold project in northeastern Ontario within the Porcupine Mining District.
       The Detour Lake Mine, originally operated by Placer Dome, produced 1.76 million ounces of gold at a grade of 5.17 g/t over its 17 year history. Milling was able to recover 93% of the gold from over 14 million tonnes of ore. Now that Detour Gold is about to become one of North America’s largest gold producers (estimated 650,000 ounces of gold produced annually over the next 20-plus years), Trade Winds’ prospects for eventual takeover by Detour are greatly enhanced.
       Trade Winds earned a 50% interest in the Block A property in 2006 by spending $7.5 million to explore the property. The same year, the company acquired 100% of the 1,003-hectare Gowest property, which encompasses the western extension of Block A’s mineralized M Zone. Trade Winds has successfully traced mineralization for over 4.6 kilometers with multiple parallel gold zones open to the west occurring both above and below the primary mineralization contact.
       “The M Zone is one of the best exploration targets in the entire belt,” says Lambert.
       Under the joint venture agreement, Trade Winds is the project operator during exploration and through completion of a feasibility study. At that point, Detour has the option to become the operator of the Block A portion of Trade Winds’ property. And although the two partners must agree on expanding future exploration programs, in order to maintain their 50% interest, Detour is required to participate equally. So far, Detour has agreed to Trade Winds exploration proposals and is supportive of undertaking a preliminary economic assessment for the Block A project.

       The possibility that Detour would eventually buy out Trade Winds’ interest in the Block A property, is not a given for the immediate future. That is why Trade Winds is intent on moving forward aggressively to prove up the standalone feasibility of the Block A deposit.
       “The 2011 drilling program could add a half million ounces or more to our gold resource,” Lambert says.
       Block A currently contains 4.65 million ounces of gold in indicated and inferred categories. According to the independent NI 43-101 technical report that updated a 2009 resource estimate, the in-pit resource estimate now stands at 1.924 million ounces of gold indicated (70.8 million tonnes at a grade cap of 0.85 g/t) and 762,000 ounces of gold inferred (27.3 tonnes at a grade cap of 0.87 g/t). The estimate contained in the open pit shell was completed by consulting geologists Watts, Griffis and McOuat Limited and was based on a $1000 per ounce gold price and a cut-off grade of 0.4 g/t gold. The Block A pit shell crosses the claim boundary on the eastern side onto the mining lease held by joint venture partner Detour Gold. Trade Winds’ resource estimate does not include an additional 218,000 ounces of gold indicated and 249,000 ounces of gold inferred located on Detour Gold’s portion of the lease area.
       “Based on these results, Trade Winds has embarked upon a new 50,000 meter program of both infill drilling and exploration drilling to the west and outside the pit,” says Lambert. “A portion of the deposit will be drilled on 40 by 40 meter centers to increase the confidence level of the mineral resources.”
       Drill results from the first 36 holes from Trade Winds’ 2011 winter drilling program show significant mineralization ranging as high as 4.18 g/t Au over 18.4 meters and 2.08 g/t Au over 30.0 meters. Trade Winds has completed drilling of 69 holes, comprising over 29,756 meters for the winter program with a further 20,000 meters of drilling commenced for the remainder of 2011. Infill holes will provide missing data within the pit shell area. Drill spacing of closer than 80 meters is required on Block A in order to develop inferred resources and closer than 40 meters to identify indicated resources.
The drilling program also will test areas outside the pit shell, particularly in areas to the north between the main pit shell and the North Walter Lake pit shell as well as south of the main pit shell extending to the southern boundary of Block A to test the deposit’s footwall. Trade Winds is hoping to determine if the Sunday Lake Deformation Zone extends onto the southern portion of Block A. Drilling west of the main pit shell will test the western extension of the modeled pit.
       Trade Winds is also assaying up to 13,000 meters of previously unsampled drilling cores taken from 141 previously drilled holes in and near the pit shell. Results from the sampling will be incorporated into the Block A resource model and will contribute to the next mineral resource update.
       “A significant number of results from the assayed samples have returned grades above the 0.4 g/t Au cut-off grade of the current open pit mineral resource estimate,” says Lambert, pointing out that more than 70% of the holes drilled to date contain assays of greater than 10.0 g/t gold.

       Collectively, Trade Winds Venture’s management team has over 100 years experience in the mining sector including exploration, mine management and corporate finance. President, CEO and Director Ian Lambert has over 40 years of experience in the management and financing of public companies, as well as oil and gas development, marketing, manufacturing, data processing operations and software development. Lambert has led Trade Winds since 1990. Previously, he held management positions for Deloite Haskins & Sells Associates, Cominco Ltd., MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., and Mobil Oil Canada. The company’s Senior VP of Exploration, Stephen Wallace, has over 26 years experience in base and precious metals exploration for a variety of companies, including Goldcorp.
       The company’s Board of Directors includes CFO Harvey Lawson, who has lectured at the National University of Singapore, the Hong Kong Polytechnic and the British Columbia Institute of Technology and is President of Aruba Capital; Bruce Winfield, a professional geologist with over 35 years experience in the mining industry who has held positions of increasing responsibility at both senior and junior mining companies, including playing active roles in the exploration and development of five precious metal mines in Central and South America for Greenstone Resources, Eldorado Gold, Altoro Gold and Portal Resources; Craig Anderson, who has over 18 years of experience in financial services and extensive experience financing international natural resource companies in the early stages of their development, is currently CEO of North Sea Energy Inc. and Echo Exploration Ltd.; and Verlee Webb, who has been counsel for the company for several years.

       Trade Winds Ventures is in solid financial shape, recently closing a bought deal financing and warrant exercise and has enough cash on hand to fund all planned 2011 exploration activities.
       The company’s market performance – 607% growth in capitalization and over 155 million shares traded during 2010 – has earned it a place on the Canadian TSX Venture Exchange’s 2011 Venture 50, where it is among the list’s top 10 emerging mining companies.
       “We look forward to continuing to further enhance Trade Wind’s value as we advance our gold project on the Detour Lake Block A property toward feasibility,” says Lambert. “We will also maximize shareholder value by seeking and negotiating with potential buyers and mergers.”