NEWS

WIRES

OTHER

Touchstone Shareholders Appoint Durfy and Smith to the Board at Annual Meeting

Touchstone Resources Ltd., (TSX VENTURE: TCH.H) (Quoted in US$) ('Touchstone' or 'the Company') announces that its Annual General & Special Meeting of shareholders was held in Vancouver, British Columbia on June 1, 2010 at which:

--  Paul Baay, Ron Bryant, Trevor Mitzel, Ron Schmitz, Sean Durfy and Gregg
Smith were elected as directors of Touchstone for the coming year;
--  the incumbent auditors of the Company, Davidson & Company, Chartered
Accountants, were appointed auditors of Touchstone for the coming year;
--  the shareholders approved, by an ordinary resolution, the Company's
proposed rolling Incentive Stock Option Plan for the coming year; and
--  the shareholders authorized and approved, by a special resolution, the
reduction of stated capital as reflected in the Company's consolidated
balance sheet at December 31, 2009.

The incumbent directors of Touchstone are pleased to welcome Mr. Sean Durfy and Mr. Gregg Smith to the Board of Directors.

Mr. Durfy joined WestJet Airlines Ltd. as Executive Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Airport Operations in 2004 and in 2006 he took on the role of President of WestJet and Chief Executive Officer in 2007 until his retirement in April 2010. Prior to his time at WestJet, Mr. Durfy served as an executive of Enmax Corporation in 1999 and as President and Chief Operating Officer at Enmax Energy Marketing Inc. from 2000 until 2004.

Mr. Smith is currently the President and Chief Operating Officer of PetroBakken Energy Inc. He joined Petrobank as Vice President in March of 2003 and was promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Petrobank's CBU in September, 2008. Prior to joining Petrobank, Mr. Smith worked in the oil and gas industry in various positions including Senior Geophysicist, Exploration Team Leader, and Exploration Manager.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: Information in this press release that involves Touchstone's expectations, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future are forward-looking statements that are not facts and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Touchstone generally uses words such as 'outlook', 'will', 'could', 'would', 'might', 'remains', 'to be', 'plans', 'believes', 'may', 'expects', 'intends', 'anticipates', 'estimate', 'future', 'plan', 'positioned', 'potential', 'project', 'remain', 'scheduled', 'set to', 'subject to', 'upcoming', and similar expressions to help identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release are based upon information available to Touchstone as of the date of this release, and Touchstone assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements believed to be true when made may ultimately prove to be incorrect. These statements are not guarantees of the future performance of Touchstone and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond its control and may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. For further information regarding specific risks and uncertainties applicable to Touchstone please see the most recent management discussion and analysis may be viewed with other Touchstone disclosure documents through the Internet on the Canadian System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) at www.sedar.com.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.