CQR Conquest Resources Limited

Conquest Resources Limited (TSX VENTURE:CQR) ("Conquest" or "the Company") is
pleased to announce that the Company has filed a report entitled: "Technical
Report on Exploration at the Alexander Gold Project in Red Lake, Ontario"
("Technical Report" or "report"). The report summarizes the exploration
activities conducted to date on the Alexander Property ("the Property") and
concludes that additional work is warranted to advance the project. 


Conquest's exploration activities on its 100% owned Alexander Property total
$6.1 million, the majority of which are drilling activities conducted during
2009 through 2011. Since the acquisition of the Red Lake Alexander Property by
Conquest in 2002, the Company has completed a total of 31,086 metres of surface
exploration diamond drilling, of which 22,961 metres of drilling was completed
during an intensive exploration drilling program from 2009 through 2011. 


Geophysical and geochemical surveys have also been conducted in addition to
surface trenching and mapping over the Property. Geophysical data has been
provided from a regional airborne survey commissioned by Goldcorp and flown over
Conquest's property. During 2008, Goldcorp drilled four (4) holes from their Red
Lake mine property on to the Alexander Property which are also summarized in the
Technical Report. 


RECOMMENDATIONS 

In order to advance exploration on the Alexander Property, the Technical Report
recommends the following work to: 


"(a) establish and drill test targets through a compilation of existing
exploration drilling, geophysics, and geochemistry; 


(b) follow-up previous geophysical work conducted by Goldcorp on the Alexander
Property and their adjacent mine property; 


(c) conduct geochemical surveys on the ground and using existing drill core to
establish new drill hole targets; and 


(d) to research and conduct a modern bore-hole EM and IP geophysical survey
which utilizes the 2009, 2010, and 2011 drill holes which have been maintained
for this purpose." 


JOINT VENTURE OPPORTUNITY AT RED LAKE 

Management believes that an extensive deep drilling program of 20,000 metres of
drilling combined with down-hole electromagnetic and induced polarization
geophysical surveys is warranted. Conquest considers that the most efficient way
to unlock any future value for shareholders and advance the Alexander project is
to establish a joint venture with a strategic partner to complete the work that
is recommended in the Technical Report. 


The Company is soliciting expressions of interest from qualified mining
companies who may wish to enter into a strategic partnership joint venture with
the Company to advance exploration on its Alexander Gold Project. 


ABOUT THE PROPERTY 

The Alexander Property is 100% owned by Conquest and is comprised of
twenty-seven (27) patented mining claims covering 448 hectares of land situated
just beyond the security gate at Goldcorp's Red Lake gold mine. The Property is
located immediately west of the Red Lake Complex and Balmer Complex headframes
at Goldcorp's Red Lake gold mines within the Red Lake mining district. 


The Alexander Property is of ample size to accommodate a high grade gold deposit
at depth as repetition of the adjacent deposits at Goldcorp's Red Lake gold
mine. The stratigraphy under the Property remains essentially untested below 700
metres depth. The richest gold bearing ore zones exist below a vertical depth of
1,300 metres in the High Grade Zone at the Goldcorp Red Lake gold mine which is
less than 800 metres from the property boundary.


QUALIFIED PERSON AND TECHNICAL REPORT 

Information of a scientific or technical nature contained in this release has
been prepared by or under the supervision of Benjamin Batson, P. Geo., the Vice
Present of Exploration of the Company, who is a Qualified Person within the
meaning of National Instrument 43-101 of the Canadian Securities Administrators.
The Technical Report was prepared by Mr. Batson in compliance with National
Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") and is available on the Company's website and on
SEDAR (www.sedar.com). 


ABOUT THE COMPANY 

Conquest is exploring several geologically significant gold projects in Ontario.
In addition to Conquest's flagship Alexander Property in Red Lake, Ontario, the
Company is undertaking exploration activities at its Detour Lake and Smith Lake
properties. 


The Smith Lake Gold Project measures 54 square kilometres and consists of six
(6) patented mining claims and thirty-four (34) mining claims located within the
Missanabie-Goudreau greenstone belt in Leeson and Rennie Townships in northern
Ontario. The property is 100% Conquest owned and is contiguous with the former
International Corona Resources Renabie Gold Mine, which at that time produced
more than 1,000,000 ounces of gold from 1941 through 1991. 


In June, the government of Ontario released a geophysical data set containing a
compilation of local and regional airborne magnetic and electromagnetic
geophysical data for the area covering 70% of the newly amalgamated Conquest
land package in the Renabie area. Interpretation of this data by Conquest has
generated more than fifteen geophysical targets for gold and base metals
exploration which have been scheduled for prospecting and mapping following
spring break-up in 2013. The goal is to advance the project by: (i) assessing
its potential to host another Renabie sized gold deposit; and, (ii) to determine
if volcanogenic massive sulphide potential exists in the metavolcanic and
metasedimentary successions present in the Missanabie-Goudreau Greenstone Belt. 


The Sunday Lake Gold Project consists of 13 square kilometers of prospective
minerals leases located along the Sunday Lake Deformation Zone situated
approximately seven kilometres east of Detour Gold's 15.6 million ounce proposed
open pit gold mine in northern Ontario that is presently nearing commissioning. 


In September 2010, Conquest entered into a joint venture with Detour Gold
(TSX:DGC) on Conquest's Sunday Lake Property pursuant to which Detour Gold has
the right to earn a 50% interest in the Sunday Lake Property by completing
$1,000,000 of exploration prior to September 30, 2013. 


Detour Gold is expected to complete a winter drill program during the first
quarter (Q1) 2013 which is estimated to cost $320,000. Conquest does not
anticipate contributing financially to the 2013 drill program. 


This news release may include certain "forward-looking statements". All
statements other than statements of historical fact, included in this release,
including, without limitation, statements regarding potential mineralization,
resources and reserves, exploration results, and future plans and objectives of
Conquest, are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and
uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be
accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those
anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from Conquest's expectations are exploration risks
detailed herein and from time to time in the filings made by Conquest with
securities regulators. 


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
Conquest Resources Limited
Robert J. Kinloch
President & CEO
306-343-5799


Conquest Resources Limited
Benjamin Batson
V.P. Exploration
647-728-4134


Conquest Resources Limited
John F. Kearney
Chairman
416-362-6686
info@conquestresources.net
www.conquestresources.net

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