APA

Apella Resources Inc. which trades on (TSX
VENTURE:APA)(OTCQX:APAFF)(FRANKFURT:NWN) is pleased to report that its
subsidiary Prestige Mining Corporation has approved the commencement of a
pre-drill field program on the 100% owned Lac Dore Vanadium-Iron-Titanium
Project. The program will entail the opening of winter roads to and on the site,
establishment of the historic McKenzie Bay grid, and the surveying of historic
and newly planned diamond drill locations.


This first phase of exploration work on Lac Dore will re-establish and extend
the previous grid (1997), establish a minimum of three permanent bench marks
which will be used for future infrastructure and mine construction; and survey
the previous drill holes, trenches and stripping utilized in the earlier, pre-NI
43-101, Feasibility Study in 2002-03. Following this program, the company is
planning to carry out a magnetometer survey, a stripping program and a diamond
drilling campaign aimed at twinning a number of the historic holes.


Apella's planned follow-up 2012 diamond drilling programs will be designed to
address a number of desirable outcomes:




1.  To confirm the geological and mineralogical context as well as the
    thickness and grade of the mineralization intersected historically
    within the known deposit by twinning a number of the historic drill
    holes. This twinning would permit Prestige/Apella to qualify the
    previous non-compliant NI 43-101 resources calculated by Allard and
    Girard (1998) and SNC-Lavalin (2003) to Measured and Indicated Mineral
    Resources. 
2.  To confirm the extension at depth of the known mineralized zones and to
    fill some gaps in the historic drilling patterns. These holes would be
    aimed at enabling an increase in the resources and will bring a large
    part of them to Measured Mineral Resources category. 
3.  A number of drill holes are planned for sections of the known horizon
    which have yet to have been drilled historically. The holes will test
    the extension at depth of the apparent mineralized layers. 
4.  In addition, the company may drill a number of additional drill holes
    which would be targeted at a significant geophysical target identified
    on the horizon that does appear to have drill tested in the historic
    campaigns. This would verify the NE extension of the deposit, between
    the main previously drilled areas and the eastern boundary of the
    property. These holes could add substantial NI 43-101 compliant
    resources to the Lac Dore Project.



It is anticipated that the first phase or two of diamond drilling, upon
completion, would bring the Lac Dore Project to Pre-Feasibility Study level.
Additional drilling will be necessary to bring to project to the Feasibility
Study level, calculate and establish the Probable and Proven Mineral Reserves
and commence mine planning where feasible.


The Lac Dore Project is comprised of 42 mineral claims, including the 18 key
claims previously owned by the Province of Quebec, encompasses 672 Ha (1,660.55
Acres). It is situated approximately 40kms SE of the mining centre of
Chibougamau, Quebec. It covers most of the well-known historic Lac Dore
Vanadium-Iron-Titanium deposit, which for more than 40 years was a crown asset
of the Province of Quebec. The Lac Dore deposit, in 2002-03, was the subject of
a positive non-compliant NI 43-101 Feasibility Study by SNC-Lavalin, with regard
to the production of vanadium.


The Lac Dore Complex (Allard, 1976) is a Bushveld-type layered complex, folded
into a large anticline and metamorphosed to the green schist facies like the
enclosing volcanic rocks, with which it is coeval and comagmatic. From bottom to
top, the Complex has been divided into three mains zones: Anorthosite Zone (Main
zone), Layered Zone, and Upper Border Zone. This last includes the
Soda-granophyre and Ferrodioric Zones. The vanadium mineralization in the Lac
Dore Complex is contained in the lower-most part of the Layered Zone. The
vanadium horizon consists of rhythmically layered units (50 to 200 m thick
layered zones) rich in ferroaugite, magnetite and ilmenite interbedded with
layers of leucogabbro. The Fe-Ti oxides are heterogeneously and rhythmically
distributed, with the Fe-Ti-oxide-rich horizons intercalated with oxide
-free-horizons.


This press release has been reviewed by Dr. Christian Derosier, P. Geo.,
Consulting Geologist and Qualified Person for the Iron-T and Game-Changer
Projects under National Instrument NI 43-101.


Additional information, as it is available, will be contained on the Company's
website at www.apellaresources.com or the company can be contacted at
604-683-8990.


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF APELLA RESOURCES INC.

Patrick D. O'Brien, ICD.D - Chairman

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