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Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RL) (the "Company") reports that its summer
2012 drilling program has begun at the Blue Lake Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd Property, Labrador
Trough, Quebec. 


The drill program at Blue Lake will be designed to test historically important
areas and new areas for Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd mineralization. Over recent months,
Rockland's geological team has been systematically bringing all available
historical information related to the Blue Lake project into the 21st century by
digitizing and creating a modern database, creating an exploration platform to
expand known mineralization to unlock the potential of this property. 


The Blue Lake sulfide deposits are nickeliferous pyrrhotite ores, with a copper
content twice that of nickel, containing significant platinum and palladium. The
historical tonnage, established by hand-drawn block models in 1989 (before
National Instrument 43-101), is 4.03 Mt at 0.85% Cu, 0.52% Ni and 0.84 g/t
combined platinum plus palladium. The Blue Lake sulfide deposits have potential
to be significantly expanded down-dip. The Blue Lake historical deposits are
located within Quebec Special Mining Lease BEP-93, one of five Special Mining
Leases optioned to Rockland from La Fosse Platinum Group. 


Rockland controls the best historical Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd showings in this part of the
Labrador Trough, including Chance Lake, Glance Lake, and Berry Lake. All of
these properties were repeatedly drilled during multiple exploration campaigns
since the 1950s. The known copper-nickel-platinum-palladium mineralization in
these areas can be extended by offset, down-dip drill exploration, which has the
potential to add significant new tonnage to that already blocked-out at Blue
Lake.


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. Please visit our website for more information.


We seek Safe Harbor.

On behalf of the Board of Directors

Rav Mlait, President and CEO

Rockland Minerals Corp.

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