Redhawk Resources, Inc. Announces A. Joe Fernandez Appointed as VP Project Development


VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - May 26, 2011) - Redhawk Resources, Inc. ("Redhawk" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:RDK)(FRANKFURT:QF7) is pleased to announce that effective June 2011, A. Joe Fernandez has agreed to join Redhawk as VP Project Development.

Joe Fernandez is a mining engineer with more than 30 years of practical experience in engineering, supervision, and management. Joe was most recently VP Project Development for Antares Minerals, Inc. on their porphyry copper project in Peru prior to that company being acquired by First Quantum Minerals Ltd. Joe's work experience includes BHP Billiton at Miami Arizona, Melbourne Australia, San Francisco, Tucson Arizona, Tintaya Peru, and the San Manuel Operations at San Manuel Arizona. Joe has also worked for ASARCO at the Ray Arizona Operations, and for Phelps Dodge/Freeport MacMoran in Tucson Arizona.

Redhawk's President and CEO Joe Sandberg stated, "Joe Fernandez brings a wealth of practical experience in project development, engineering feasibility, and mine operations to our Copper Creek Project in Arizona. He has also worked at the Asarco Ray and the BHP Sam Manuel mines which are in close proximity to Copper Creek. Joe's appointment is indicative of the expansion of our team as we become more focused on moving our project through development and towards production."

About Redhawk

Redhawk is a Canadian-based resource exploration and development company with primary focus on the accelerated development of its advanced stage Copper Creek copper-molybdenum project in San Manuel, Arizona.

The 100% owned Copper Creek property consists of approximately seven square miles of almost totally contiguous patented and unpatented mining claims and state prospecting permits, located about 70 miles northeast of Tucson, Arizona and about 15 miles east of San Manuel. The property is in the prolific southwest US porphyry copper belt at the projected intersection of a major northwest belt of porphyry copper deposits or mines (Ray, Miami/Globe, Superior/Resolution, Johnson Camp) and a major east-northeast belt of porphyry deposits (San Manuel/Kalamazoo, Silver Bell, Lakeshore, Safford, Morenci). The property is within sight of the former BHP Kalamazoo/San Manuel copper smelter and mine and within 30 miles of an existing operating copper smelter. The area is a mining friendly and politically secure location with excellent and readily accessible infrastructure.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

J. Stephen Barley, Managing Director

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