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Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RL) (the "Company") is pleased to announce
receipt of a new Technical Report which outlines significant Cu-Ni-PGM discovery
potential on the Blue Lake Project, Labrador Trough, Quebec. The independent
report details the 2012 Blue Lake drill program, provides new historical
context, and presents several positive conclusions on the expansion of Cu-Ni-PGM
mineralization at Blue Lake and surrounding areas. A web version of the Blue
Lake Technical Report can be downloaded from the company's website at
rocklandminerals.ca.


The new Technical Report (IOS Services Geoscientifiques Inc. 2013), states that
mineralized intervals tested in the "middle sill" ultramafic unit during the
drilling campaign confirmed the location and continuity of the massive sulphide
ore intersections described in previous work at Blue Lake from the 1950's to the
1980's. Rockland's 2012 drilling replicated the significant assay values for
copper, nickel, platinum and palladium in the massive sulphide bands and lenses
used to calculate the Blue Lake historical (pre-National Instrument 43-101)
resource in 1989. In several cases, careful core recovery increased thicknesses
of known mineralized intervals. Broad intervals of disseminated sulphide
mineralisation not systematically sampled during previous drilling campaigns
were documented by Rockland Minerals, and these contribute significantly to the
overall near-surface bulk potential at Blue Lake. 


The report introduces a conservative, recovery-based, copper-equivalent value
("CuEq") for the Blue Lake massive sulphides to better help see the shapes of
the Blue Lake mineralized bodies. Using this CuEq criteria, at 60% Ni recovery
typical of these pyrrhotitic nickel ores, the non-43-101 Blue Lake 1989
historical massive sulphide resource is greater than 4 MT at a grade of greater
than 2.2% CuEq. All the Blue Lake massive sulphides included in the historic
resource contain approximately 0.2 g/t Pt and 0.8 g/t Pd, with richer grades in
thin Pt-Pd-rich shear zones around the fringes of the massive sulphide lenses.
These Pt-Pd rich zones were observed and tested in 1987, when a 350 meter
underground bulk sample adit was driven into the Blue #1 massive sulfide lens.
Elsewhere in the district, Rockland's claims cover two additional zones, within
4 kilometres on either side of Blue Lake, which hold excellent down-dip
expansion potential. These zones, Starr Lake to the west, and Berry Lake to the
east, both have historic massive sulphide drill intercepts greater than 1-metre
thick with Blue Lake-style Cu-Ni-PGM values in excess of 2% CuEq, with the same
tenor of Pt-Pd values. 


George F. Sanders, P.Geo, Director and Qualified Person responsible for the
technical content of this News Release, states: "Rockland found all the old
drill locations in the field, and our 2012 drill results now verify the
excellent quality of the historical Blue Lake resource data. Higher Pd values in
the new CuEq equation drew the resource modeler to spot several holes at the
edges of known sulfide bodies at Blue Lake #2-6, and Centre #2 zones. Results
from these holes confirm potential to expand the Cu-Ni-PGM resources at Blue
Lake."


We seek Safe Harbor. 

On behalf of the Board of Directors 

Rav Mlait, President and CEO

Rockland Minerals Corp.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
Rockland Minerals Corp.
(604) 551-7831
604-676-2767 (FAX)
info@rocklandminerals.ca
www.rocklandminerals.ca

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