Atocha Begins McGillivray Exploration Program

Atocha Resources Inc (C:ATT)
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Monday July 13 2009 - News Release

Mr. A. Salman Jamal reports

ATOCHA RESOURCES INC. ANNOUNCES START OF WORK PROGRAM

Atocha Resources Inc. has started the recommended exploration program as contained in its prospectus dated May 21, 2009. An initial trenching and road-building program began on July 11, 2009. The company's McGillivray property is located north of Lytton, B.C., in the Kamloops mining division approximately midway between Lytton and Lillooet on Highway 12. The mineral online claims cover 4,646 hectares (46.46 square kilometres).

The McGillivray property geology consists of fault bounded slices of dioritic and granodioritic intrusives of the Permian to Triassic age Mount Lytton complex, with highly altered lower Cretaceous andesitic volcanics of the Pimainus formation of the Spences Bridge group. The western side of the McGillivray property is next to the regional Fraser River fault. Within the fault bounded slices of altered volcanics are strong alteration zones with evidence of drusy quartz and anomalous silver soil samples. The mineral deposit type that is recommended to target for is for the exploration for epithermal precious metals.

The next stage is to extend the existing grid and soil sampling to fill in between the grid and the ridge lines and trench the area of the anomalous samples from the 2006 program and any new targets outlined in the proposed soil sample program. The McGillivray property demonstrates many features of classic epithermal deposits: the vein mineralogy and textures, with generations of carbonate, silica and chalcedony, the tendency for mineralization to occur in flat vein structures, the presence of brecciated quartz veins, and the suite of geochemical indicator elements molybdenum, arsenic, and silver. The epithermal mineralization features at the McGillivray property has attracted the attention of numerous epithermal oriented exploration geologists and companies. The alteration that has attracted others to the property is believed to be above the boiling zone in a hydrothermal system and hence above the zone of deposition of precious metals. The relative abundance of alteration, in particular potassium feldspar and kaolin alteration in the surface exposures has encouraged previous near surface exploration. J. T. Shearer, MSc, PGeo, is the qualified person as defined by NI 43-101 who supervised the preparation of the technical material of this release.

ABOUT ATOCHA

Atocha is a natural resources company engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mining properties.  The Company's main focus is on exploration for copper and precious metals. The Company has an option to acquire a 100% undivided interest in the McGillivray Property, located in the Kamloops Mining Division of British Columbia.

For further information on Atocha, please refer to the Company's Prospectus dated May 21, 2009 and available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

For further information, please contact:

A. Salman Jamal, Chief Executive Officer

Telephone: 604 696-1111
Facsimile: 604 694-1995
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Website: www.atocharesources.com

Forward-Looking Statement

This document may contain or refer to forward-looking information based on current expectations, including, but not limited to timing of mineral resource estimates, future exploration or project development programs and the impact on the Company of these events. Forward-looking information is subject to significant risks and uncertainties, as actual results may differ materially from forecasted results. Forward-looking information is provided as of the date hereof and we assume no responsibility to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances. For a detailed list of risks and uncertainties, as it relates to Atocha Resources Inc., please refer to the Company's Prospectus filed with SEDAR.

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