Mexican Silver Mines Ltd. ("Mexican Silver") (TSX
VENTURE:MSM)(FRANKFURT:MS2)(WKN:A0MSLE) is pleased to announce that the company
has been profiled by Business Television. The segment featuring Mexican Silver
will air on October 4th and 5th 2008. On the same program, well-known and
respected Silver Analyst, Sean Rakhimov, from www.silverstrategies.com shares
his thoughts on Mexican Silver Mines operations.


Broadcast times and channels throughout North America are listed below. The
video will also be available on the BTV website at:
http://www.b-tv.com/i/videos/mexicansilveroct08.wmv.




Broadcast Times

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Location                       Station      Date                       Time
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Canada                         BNN          Sat., October 4      8:00pm EST
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Ontario                        SUNTV        Sun., October 5     9:00 am EST
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Alberta                        City TV      Sat., October 4    10:30 am MST
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BC/Washington                  KVOS TV      Sun., October 5     4:30 pm PST
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Bell Express VU & Star Choice  West SUNTV   Sun., October 5     6:00 am PST
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US National                    America One  Sat., October 4    10:30 am EST
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About BTV

BTV, a half-hour weekly business program, profiles emerging publicly trading
companies across Canada and the USA. BTV features companies at their location,
interviews the company's key executives, features their products and services,
and unveils their plans for future growth. BTV joined Mexican Silver Mines at
the company's projects near Monterrey, Mexico.


About Mexican Silver Mines

Mexican Silver Mines is a silver focused junior resource company developing
three former silver producing properties in north-eastern Mexico. The company
hopes to complete its first NI43-101 compliant resource estimate by the first
quarter of 2009. To learn more about Mexican Silver Mines, please visit:
www.mexicansilvermines.com. 


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF MEXICAN SILVER MINES LTD. 

Feisal Somji, B.Sc., MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer

This news release contains forward-looking information including but not limited
to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs,
geological interpretations and potential mineral recovery processes.
Forward-looking information includes disclosure regarding possible future
events, conditions or results of operations that is based on assumptions about
future economic conditions and courses of action, and therefore, involves
inherent risks and uncertainties. When used in this news release. The words
"estimated", "plan", "anticipated", "expected", "intend", believe", and similar
expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that
may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Mexican Silver to
be materially different from any future results, performance or achievement
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. For any forward-looking
information given, management has assumed that the analytical results it has
received are reliable, and has applied geological interpretation methodologies
which are consistent with industry standards. Although management has a
reasonable basis for the conclusions drawn, there can be no assurance that
forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate and actual results may
differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. For such
statements, we claim safe harbour.