Genco Closes Final Tranche of $4.77 Million Placement

Vancouver, British Colombia - (Marketwire - March 11, 2010) - Not for distribution to US newswire services or for dissemination in the United States of America.

Genco Resources Ltd. (TSX: GGC) has completed the final tranche of its Private Placement by issuing 761,000 units at a price of CAD $0.36 per unit for proceeds of CAD $273,960. Each unit consisted of one common share and one-half of a transferable warrant to purchase a further common share for CAD $0.45 for a period of two years. The fourth tranche represented an over-subscription of the original 12,500,000 units. In total, Genco has now received gross proceeds of CAD $4,773,960 from the Private Placement.

Casimir Capital L.P. of New York, NY acted as Agent for the entire Private Placement. Casimir was paid a fee of 8% of the proceeds, and issued an aggregate of 400,000 warrants exercisable on the same terms as the warrants contained in the units.

About Genco Resources Ltd.

Genco Resources Ltd. is a publicly traded mining company focused on developing its core asset, the producing La Guitarra silver-gold property located in the Temascaltepec Mining District of Mexico. La Guitarra Mine presently consists of two underground operation centres and a flotation mill with a proven capacity of 320 tonnes per day. Genco recently completed a Feasibility Study, which evaluated a ten-fold expansion of existing mining operations at La Guitarra Mine to 3,000 tonnes per day.

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For further information please contact:

Genco Resources Ltd.

Ms. Jada Soomer

Manager, Corporate Communications

(604) 682-2205 ext. 227

(604) 682-2235 (FAX)

soomer@gencoresources.com

www.gencoresources.com

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