Upper Canyon commences drilling at Brosnor property

Upper Canyon Minerals Corp. announces that a 3,500 metre definition drilling program has commenced on its 100% owned Brosnor property located in Louvicourt township, approximately 30 kilometres east of the mining town of Val d’Or, Quebec.

The Brosnor property contains two gold zones, namely the Adelemont and the Norcourt, some 300 metres apart. The 2008 exploration program estimated at $500,000 has been developed to evaluate and confirm the potential of known mineral deposits on the Brosnor property. The property also contains a zone, called Bermont, some 500 metres to the west of the Adelemont. This zone is at an early stage of exploration with restricted drilling after its discovery in 1964, however, drilling in spring of 2007 intersected good grades above 0.10 Au over 10 feet (3 meters). The gold bearing structures strike east-west and consist of quartz-carbonate with various amounts of pyrite and minor tourmaline.

The prime objective of the program is the definition drilling of the Adelemont ore zone and the testing of its south-west down depth extension. On the Bermont zone, 3 short holes (approximately 1,000 metres) will test mineralization accessible in winter time due to the swampy environment. A decline of approximately 670 metres long to a depth of 200 metres was completed in 1985-86 into the Adelemont body with a minimum cross-cutting and underground horizontal drilling. The company follow up step would be the rehabilitation of the underground workings upon satisfactory results of current drilling.

A resource calculation in 1982 by Mining Corp. of Canada, reported the first historical resource calculation, estimating 277,503 tons grading 0.119 oz/t Au (4.08 g/t) on the Adelemont deposit to a vertical depth of 200 metres and 34,352 tons grading 0.124oz/t Au (4.25 oz/t) on the Norcourt zone. These data are historical and prepared before the introduction of National Instrument 43-101- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (NI 43-101). They may not be relied upon until they are confirmed using methods and standards that comply with those required by NI 43-101.