Trio Gold Corp

Trio reports additional assay results received from American Assay Labs of Reno, Nevada, from its 2,200 ft, nine-hole RC drill program, conducted in December 2004 on its Empire Mine property, in central Idaho. Holes TRC04-1, TRC04-2, TRC04-3 and TRC04-8 were drilled in the AP Pit area, some 650 feet south of previously announced core hole TDD04-1 which bottomed in 13.5% copper. All holes are vertical. A location map is posted on the company's web site.

All samples were assayed by 4-acid dissolution with ICP analysis, checked by AAS.

Hole	TD (ft)	From (ft)	To (ft)	Interval (ft)	Cu%	Au gpT	Ag gpT	Zn%
TRC04-01	250	0	165	165	0.65	-	13.6	0.31
	incl.	0	90	90	0.97	-	15.0	0.35
	incl.	105	125	20	0.78	-	30.9	-
		140	250	110	-	1.02	-	0.72
TRC04-2	320	0	55	55	0.76	-	44.7	-
	incl.	20	40	20	1.33	-	78.3	-
TRC04-3	380	0	95	95	0.53	-	-	-
	incl.	0	40	40	0.81	-	-	-
		95	220	125	0.32	1.90	-	-
	incl.	95	110	15	0.64	3.17	-	-
	incl.	190	205	15	-	5.49	-	-
	incl.	195	200	5	-	8.0	-	-
TRC04-8	300	0	25	25	0.56	-	11.4	Pending

The copper mineralization found at the Empire Mine is hosted by garnet-diopside skarn that developed at the contact between limestone and a feldspar porphyry intrusion. Copper mineralization drilled to date occurs preferentially in a green “exoskarn?(limestone-derived), whereas gold is more closely associated with brown “endoskarn?(porphyry-derived) adjacent to magnetite breccia and exoskarn. The intercepts are from a body of mineralization which is exposed over an area of more than 700' by 450' in the AP Pit, and which has both flat-lying and moderately-dipping components. Thicknesses are considered to be near true.

Recap of Previously Announced Holes:

Hole	TD (ft)	From (ft)	To (ft)	Interval (ft)	Cu%	Au gpT	Ag gpT	Zn%
TDD04-01 (Core)	97	58	97	19*	4.23	Pending	Pending	Pending
	incl.	92	97	5	13.54	Pending	Pending	Pending
TRC04-4	65	10	65	55	0.46	-	16.3	-
	incl.	55	65	10	1.56	0.37	52.3	-
TRC04-6	195	0	45	45	3.29	-	Pending	-
	incl.	185	195	10	2.69	0.35	Pending	Pending
TRC04-7	50	0	50	50	0.31	-	-	-

* This interval includes 20' of void space (old mine workings).

The Empire Mine was a former underground copper-gold-silver producer in the period 1901 to 1942. Trio plans to evaluate a potential solvent-extraction / electro-winning (SX-EW) operation, coupled with milling operations for higher grade mineralization, for this property. Jim Golden P.Eng, independent consultant to Trio, states that typical mine cutoff grades for similar operations would be in the order of 0.1% copper, 0.2% zinc, 0.01 opt gold, and 0.1 opt silver. A one percent assay represents 20 pounds of metal per ton.

The drill program was implemented and supervised by Philip van Angeren P.Geol., director of Trio Gold Corp., and a “qualified person?under National Instrument 43-101 guidelines. This news release has been prepared by Mr. van Angeren.