Brosnor Gold Property / Spring 2011 Drill Program Completed

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Vancouver, B.C. - Upper Canyon Minerals Corp. ("UCM" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: UCM) is pleased to report on the completion of its drilling program on the Company's Brosnor Property. The property is comprised of 18 claims, totaling 922.8 hectares, located in the Louvicourt Township, approximately 30 kilometres east of the town of Val d'Or, in the province of Quebec. The Brosnor property hosts gold bearing structures, striking east-west, in which quartz-pyrite-tourmaline veins, concentrated in more competent rock units carry gold values in various amounts.

The programme consisted of 14 NQ drill holes totaling 3,125 meters. 10 of the holes totaling 2,729 meters were drilled on the Norcourt and 4 of the holes totaling 396 meters were drilled on the Bermont. Assay results are in the process of being summarized and will be release upon receipt of the geological report by MRB & Associates, who supervised the drill program.

Drilling was part of the Phase I program, which included an IP-magnetic survey (see press release dated March 2, 2011, a 3-D modeling of the Adelemont, Norcourt and Bermont zones and preparation for the required permitting to proceed to the dewatering and underground development of the Phase II Program.

Further to the press release of March 30, 2011, 4 holes spaced 50 meters apart were completed on the Norcourt zone. The two easternmost holes (11-21 and 11-22) did not intersect the Quartz Feldspar Porphyry (QFP). The volcanic-ultramafic contact is a sheared zone and the QFP has been off-set. In 11-21 a narrow quartz vein bearing 2% fine was intersected at 323 meters. The two intermediate holes 11-29 and 11-30 encountered an open fault and were abandoned at 183 and 57 meters respectively.

On the Bermont, 4 short test holes (11-31 to 11-34 totaling 396 meters) did trace the previous mineralized intersections of holes 08-18 and 08-16 (see press release of March 30, 2011). Holes 11-31, 15 meters south of 08-18, drilled at -45°, cut across an 8 meter thick quartz-carbonate shattered zone, bearing 5 to 8% coarse pyrite, minor chalcopyrite between 62 to 72 meters.

Hole 11-34 was collared at the same site, set up at -70° intersected 5 quartz-carbonate zones as follows:

40 to 40.6 m:Quartz stockwork with 1% pyrite

51.7 to 53.2 m:2% fine pyrite

61.5 to 63 m:heavily fractured with low Pyrite

66 to 79 m:stockwork with 1% sulfides

101 to 105.5:thick massive quartz vein bearing 2-3% coarse pyrite in both contacts

Holes 11-32 and 11-33 were drilled at -45°. Hole 11-32, 15 m south of 08-16 and 15m west of 11-31, intersected the zone between 37.5 to 62.5 m which carries minor sulfides with local stringers of tourmaline. Hole 11-33 is located 25m west of 11-32 and cut across 2 zones (between 41.3 to 42.4 and 68 to 71 meters) bearing traces to 1% pyrite.

The Bermont zone follows the contact of a magnetic anomaly that trends east-west and extends some 200 meters further west to the boundary of the Monique Property. All the area to the west of Hole 11-33 is in marshy ground, bordering a small river. Drilling will require a permit from the Environment Department. The company will apply for this permit to enable the area to be drilled in an upcoming winter drilling program.

Geotic of Val D'Or was contracted to provide 3-D modeling of the Adelemont Zone. The results outline a cylindrical mineralized envelop up to 100 meters wide, plunging west 75°, 15 to 20 meters thick and opened at depth. All results are preliminary, an underground bulk sample and drill program, as planned in Phase II will assist confirming and tracing the average grade of the ore zone. Modeling of the Norcourt and the Bermont Zones will commence after the recently completed drill results of the reviewed.

Expert Conseils Miniers U/G Inc. of Val D'Or was contracted to apply for several permits required, progress on all permitting is on schedule.

Tom Thomsen, President and CEO of Upper Canyon Minerals notes that: "UCM recently completed a $1,250,000 private placement. We are expecting to pick up the pace of our exploration work on the Brosnor Property, next news release should be on the drill results".

Jean-Louis Robert, Ph.D. Geol., is a qualified person by the standards of National Instrument 43-101, he is responsible for the contents in this news release.

About Upper Canyon Minerals Corp., a growth oriented mineral-exploration resource company trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (Symbol: UCM), whose mission is the discovery and development of high quality precious and base metal resources, with a goal of advancing them into commercial production. UCM's exploration work is currently focused on the Brosner Gold property located near Val d'Or, Abitibi, in Quebec, Canada.

For additional information, contact Tom Thomsen at (604) 628-1767

e-mail: tthomsen@uppecanyonminerals.com, or visit website www.uppercanyonminerals.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

"Tom Thomsen"

TOM THOMSEN

President & Director

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