Board of Director changes

Vancouver, B.C. - Upper Canyon Minerals Corp. (the "Company") announces the following board changes.

The Company wishes to announce the appointment of Yi (Alex) Liu as a director of the company.

The Company announces that Xi Zhen (Derek) Dong has tendered his resignation as a Director. Mr. Dong has contributed significantly to the company, the Directors wish him well and thank him for his service.

Upper Canyon Minerals Corp. is a growth oriented mineral-exploration resource company trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (Symbol: UCM). The objective of the Company is to enhance its value via high mineralization resource properties with a goal of advancing them into commercial production. The Company is currently exploring two properties: the Josefina Silver and Base Metals Project, located in the Huarochiri Province of Lima, Peru, which comprises 5600 hectares and includes the past producing Josefina Silver and Base Metals mine and the Brosner Gold property located near Val d'Or, Abitibi, in Quebec, Canada. The Brosnor property hosts gold bearing structures, striking east-west, in which quartz-pyrite-tourmaline veins, concentrated in more competent rock units carry gold values in various amounts. The most important structure identified to date hosts two main gold zones, namely the Adelemont and Norcourt zones. In addition to the two properties, the Company has signed an Option/Joint Venture Agreement with Q-Gold Resources Ltd (Q-Gold). Under terms of the Agreement, the Company may earn a 49% participating interest in two large, prospective gold exploration tracts owned by Q-Gold totalling 2,467.7 acres

For additional information, contact Jack Bal at (604) 633-2442, toll free 1-800-667-1442, e-mail

jbal@uppecanyonminerals.com, or visit website www.uppercanyonminerals.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

"Jack Bal "

JATINDER (JACK) BAL

Director