TIEX INC. | Tiex - Drills 41 metres of 0.893 g/t gold and 77 metres of 0.316 g/t gold on bulk tonnage target at Gold Greek Project, BC on Astini News

KELOWNA, BC, Jan. 23, 2012 /CNW/ - Tiex Inc. ("Tiex" or the "Company") (TSX-V: TIX), further to its December 21^st, 2011 news release, is pleased to announce the results from its 2011 drill program on the bulk-tonnage sedimentary hosted gold, Gold Creek Project in the Quesnel Terrane of central British Columbia. The program consisted of 1037 m of diamond drilling and ~1464 m of reconnaissance reverse-circulation ("RC") drilling that tested geochemical soil anomalies and is about 36% of the total drilling program.

Four diamond drill holes successfully tested two previously drilled locations and achieved significantly increased core recovery and reached their planned depths. These drill holes intersected numerous iron-carbonate altered and silicified fault zones, the largest of which occurred over 82 m in hole GC11-15. The highlights from these four holes including GC11-15 that was drilled -70 degrees to the south and averaged 0.316 g/t Au over 77.0 m and hole GC11-14 that was drilled -55 degrees northward and intersected 0.362 g/t Au over 27.0 m.

Highlights from the drilling include:

Hole No.	Easting (WGS84)	Northing (WGS84)	Total Length	From (m)	To (m)	Interval (m)*	Au (g/t)**
Diamond Drill Holes
GC11-13	599019	5831234	166	88.0	89.0	1.0	2.137
GC11-14	599214	5831230	150	4.0	31.0	27.0	0.362
GC11-15	599211	5831235	261	14.0	91.0	77.0	0.316
		incl.		15.5	17.0	1.5	3.261
	and			173.5	212.5	39.0	0.131
		incl.		175.5	176.5	1.0	2.164
GC11-16	599249	5831461	259	103.0	131.5	28.5	0.191
		incl.		124.0	130.0	6.0	0.626
				191.5	203.0	11.5	0.210
Reverse-Circulation Drill Holes
GC11-21	599409	5831272	152.4	64.0	141.7	77.7	0.147
		incl.		129.5	141.7	12.2	0.345
GC11-25	599867	5830773	108.2	47.2	56.4	9.2	0.108
GC11-27	599278	5831143	44.2	3.1	44.2	41.2	0.893
		incl.		3.1	32.0	29.0	1.093
		incl.		10.7	12.2	1.5	13.400
GC11-28	598983	5830996	152.4	106.68	117.4	10.7	0.439
		incl.		108.2	109.7	1.5	2.462

*drilling intercept length, not true widths; **un-cut average Au assays
Full disclosure of all assays will be shown on the Company's website as soon as possible.

Hole GC11-16 was a step out reconnaissance hole about 230 m north of holes GC11-14 and 15 and cut similar faults and gold mineralization with 0.191 g/t Au over 28.5 m, 0.626 g/t Au over 6.0 m and another zone of 0.210 g/t Au over 11.5 m.

The RC drill holes are all reconnaissance holes to test a few of the numerous geochemical soil anomalies on the Property and to attempt to define the limits of known gold mineralization. Hole GC11-27, collared ~110 m southeast of holes GC11-14, returned 0.893 g/t Au over its entire 42.3 m length and included a 1.52 m interval of 13.4 g/t Au. This hole was stopped due to excessive water in the hole, but it is in the same area as GC08-04 that ran 74.68 m at 0.411 g/t, GC08-05 that ran 102.1 m at 0.324 g/t and GC08-06 that ran 263.07m at 0.240 g/t in the 2008 diamond drill program. Hole GC11-21 was collared 180 m northeast of hole GC11-27 and returned 0.147 g/t Au over 77.7 m including 0.345 g/t Au over 12.2 m. Most RC holes in 2011 (12 of 15 holes) returned elevated gold assays (> 0.1 g/t Au) of which several require follow-up with a diamond drill.

Ken Faulkner, President and CEO, comments: "Going into this program, we were trying to accomplish two goals. The first was to add and expand the known mineralized area, and we believe that we accomplished that with almost every hole in the program returning gold values. Gold Creek has a potential strike length of more than 12 kilometers and we have drilled only a fraction of that. Equally important is our proximity to Spanish Mountain Gold's +4 million ounce gold deposit which ends at our border. Our drill program will test the extensions of this mineralization on our property to the North. Secondly we tested drill methods to improve core recovery and we were very successful with greater than 85% recovery rate, which is a significant improvement and bodes well for future drilling."

Stephen Wetherup, B.Sc., P.Geo. is the Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the technical information provided in this release.

About Tiex Inc:
Tiex Inc. is a TSX Venture listed mineral exploration company focused on the exploration of its 95,559 ha Cariboo Region properties, including the 16,180 ha Bullion Property which is under an earn-in option/joint venture agreement with Newmont Canada Corporation as announced in the Company's April 27, 2011 news release. The properties are located in the prolific Quesnel Terrane of central British Columbia, Canada and are accessible by highway and logging roads year round. For more information, you can visit the company's website at: www.tiexinc.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,

"Kenneth D. Faulkner"
President & CEO

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For further information:

Ken D. Faulkner, President & CEO
Telephone: (250) 869 - 1607
Facsimile:  (250) 868 - 0798
Email: ceo@tiexinc.com