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Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RL) (the "Company") is pleased to announce
that follow-up field work is underway on the northern block of the Schefferville
Gold Property, using recently flown data from a low altitude (10 meter altitude,
2.5 meter sampling rate) "draped" heli-borne magnetometer survey on a 50-meter
spaced grid, flown by Novatem Inc. 


The Schefferville Gold Project lies within the 2.7 Ga Ashuanipi Metamorphic
Province (2.7 Ga) of the Archean-age Superior Craton. In the mid-1980's Quebec
government regional lake-bottom geochemical surveys revealed strong arsenic-gold
geochemical anomalies northwest of Schefferville. The old-timers, panning the
creeks in the region, had not seen "colour" in their gold pans, due to the
atomic-scale dissemination of gold within arsenopyrite. Weathering of the
Ashuanipi gold mineralization simply did not create nuggets at the earth's
surface, and this mineralization lay undiscovered. Only one wave of exploration
followed the government discovery, in the late 1980's, and consisted of channel
sampling, and a few shallow drill holes by Quebec juniors VIOR-Mazarin, and by
IOC. VIOR-Mazarin reported +1 g/t Au diamond drill intercepts at the Arsene in
the northern block, and at Lac Lilois in the southern block. The first focus of
Rockland's 2011 geological field work is on a new area, the Rusty Acres, which
has never been drilled. Here, several clusters of +1 g/t Au historic surface
samples in outcropping rusty, iron-formations are seen on the compilation map.


Rockland controls the best prospects in the district by first optioning 100% of
E.D. Black's Ashuanipi Claims (southern block) and by earning a 55% interest in
the Schefferville Gold Project claims, in both the northern and southern blocks,
with Joint Venture partner Western Troy Capital Resources Inc. (45%) (TSX
VENTURE:WRY). 


Rockland drilled 1,500 meters in September 2010 based on positive drill results
obtained by Western Troy in 2009. Within broad intercepts of anomalous low-grade
gold mineralization with visible arsenopyrite, a significant number of "sweet
spots" of multi-gram gold values were encountered over 1-2 meter core sampling
intervals. These higher grade intervals can be averaged with all the rest of the
anomalous gold values because there are no quartz veins, no "nuggety" free gold,
and no sharp assay boundaries. This gives rise to the expectation of finding
significant tonnages of near-surface, low-grade gold mineralization on the
Schefferville Gold Project. The assay results, and a graphical illustration of
gold assay intervals, can be seen on the Company website at
www.rocklandminerals.ca. 


George F. Sanders, P.Geo, a director of the Company, and the Qualified Person
under National Instrument 43-101 responsible for the technical content of this
news release, states: "The strength of our mapping program this summer lies in
the calibre of the geological consultants on the Rockland team - Dr. Serge
Cheve, Independent Consultant, and Rejean Girard, and Gennady Ivanov of IOS
Services Geoscientifiques Inc. The first look at the raw airborne magnetic data
shows just how useful it will be to the ground mapping."


An additional, more detailed write-up accompanying the first new field map of
the 2011 season is posted on the Rockland website www.rocklandminerals.ca. 


We seek Safe Harbor. 

On behalf of the Board of Directors

Rav Mlait, President and CEO

Rockland Minerals Corp.

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