(Vancouver, November 3, 2008) West Timmins Mining Inc. (TSX: WTM) (the “Company”) announced today that it has made its final instalment payment and has now fully vested its 100% interest in the 93 square kilometre former Montaña de Oro-Baboyahui National Mineral Reserve which sits at the core of the Company’s Montaña de Oro Project in southern Sonora, Mexico. The former Reserve area, and surrounding 100% WTM held concessions, host the La Dura East, West and Copper Porphyry discoveries as well as a number of gold-silver epithermal vein systems, all of which are the targets of on-going exploration by the Company.

• La Dura Copper Porphyry – Copper-gold-silver porphyry system intersected by drilling for over 1,000 metres along strike with mineralized intersections ranging from 60 to over 300 metres; 8 drill holes remain pending
• La Dura East – Lead-Zinc-Silver-Gold skarn system which has been intersected by drilling for 3,000 metres along strike with mineralized widths of up to 95 metres
• La Dura West – Massive Zinc-Copper-Gold-Silver sulphide zone intersected in shallow drilling with mineralized intercepts ranging between 10 and 31 metres
• Violetta/Don Pancho – Gold-silver epithermal vein system traced for over 700 metres in shallow drilling, drill intercepts to 35.50 g/t gold, 93 g/t silver over 1.45 metres.
• BA Copper – Porphyry style Copper-Gold-Silver Zone located 3.0 kilometres north of La Dura Copper in same geological setting; remains untested
• El Palmar – New, undrilled polymetallic epithermal vein system traced for over 500 metres along strike with channel samples returning 7.67 g/t gold over 1.40 metres
• El Chapote – Epithermal Gold-Silver Breccia Vein System traced on surface for over 600 metres, ranges from 3 to 20 metres in width with average reported grades of 4 g/t gold; remains untested
• Penasco Blanco – New Gold-Silver Epithermal Vein discovery, initial grab sample runs 5.6 g/t gold, 396 g/t silver; remains untested

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