Talmora Diamond Completes $150,000 Private Placement

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - April 16, 2012) - Talmora Diamond Inc. (CNSX:TAI) is pleased to announce that it has completed a part brokered and part non-brokered private placement of 3,000,000 Units, comprised of 1,200,000 Hard Dollar Units and 1,800,000 Flow-Through Units, that were sold at $0.05 per Unit, for gross proceeds of $150,000 effective April 16, 2012. Each Unit consists of one common share and one-half of one common share purchase warrant. Each whole common share purchase warrant ("Warrant") entitles the holder to acquire one common share for $0.10 until April 16, 2014. If during the term of the Warrants the common shares of Talmora trade at or above Can. $0.20 for a period of 20 consecutive trading days, the Company may notify the warrant holder to exercise the Warrants at a date no later than 30 calendar days after this notification date or forfeit any unexercised Warrants at that time. All securities issued pursuant to the financing are subject to a four month hold period which expires on August 16, 2012. Insiders acquired a total of 1,500,000 Units in the financing. The Company paid a cash commission of $1,500 on the brokered portion of the placement.

The Company now has 48,431,679 common shares outstanding. On a fully-diluted basis after giving effect to the exercise of all outstanding share purchase warrants and incentive stock options granted under its stock option plan the Company would have 59,782,679 common shares outstanding.

The Flow-Through proceeds of the financing will be applied to exploration on the Company's property in the Northwest Territories and the Hard Dollar proceeds will be applied to working capital. A major financing for a drill program is being planned and its timing will depend on the global financial situation.

Talmora holds 211 mineral claims (68,784 acres) straddling the 68^th parallel on the east side of the Lena West diamond area of the Northwest Territories. Most of the claims are in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region with the remainder in the Sahtu Settlement Region.

Over $75 million has been spent in the Lena West area by other companies with the recovery of numerous kimberlite indicator minerals (KIMs) and an unprecedented 18 diamonds in field samples. No kimberlites have been found except for the Darnley Bay and the Dharma kimberlites on a well defined favourable structure that includes the Talmora property. Sampling on the Talmora property shows a strong correlation between KIMs in till samples and magnetic anomalies with characteristics of kimberlite pipes. The majority of Lena West KIMs (those west of Talmora) are very similar to those from the Talmora property but differ from those of the Darnley Bay and Dharma properties. There is every reason to believe that the Talmora property may be the source of the abundant KIMs and diamonds of the Lena West area.

Talmora has targets ready for drilling. A drill program will cost a minimum of $1,000,000 and will be carried out as soon as the funds have been raised and the necessary permits have been obtained.

The technical information contained in this release was compiled by Alan W. Davies, P.Eng., P.G., who is the Vice-President of Exploration for Talmora. Alan W. Davies is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT

This News Release includes certain "forward-looking statements". All statements other than statements of historical fact, included in this release, including, without limitation, statements regarding potential mineralization and reserves, exploration results, and future plans and objectives of Talmora, are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from Talmora's expectations are exploration risks detailed herein and from time to time in the filings made by Talmora with securities regulators.