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LA QUINTA STARTS WORK ON KAMPENE GOLD PROJECT

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La Quinta Resources Corp has now completed and signed a formal Amodiation Agreement with AMIKI (Association Miniere du Kivu sprl) to lease, or acquire all of the Exploration and Exploitation rights of AMIKI on the Kampene Project in Maniema Province. The Kampene project includes an Exploration Licence covering 33.83 square kilometres of a prolific prior gold producing area, which also includes an area of 14.47 square kilometres covered by a Small Miner's Licence allowing La Quinta to mine and sell all mineral products from the Licence area including Gold, Silver, Coltan, (Columbite and Tantalite,) Cassiterite.

Kampene has a long history of extensive mineral production dating back to the 1940's and the Belgian era, when mineral production for Gold, Cassiterite and Coltan formed the economic basis for the formation of the Town of Kampene, complete with its power plant, airstrip, schools churches and hospital. The Amodiation agreement is for a term of 10 years renewable as the DRC Code Minier allows; includes an annual property rental of $100,000 payable in advance; and a 1.5% Net Smelter Return, (NSR) with a provision to buy out the Lease, including the NSR for $2 million after 5 years.

La Quinta has mobilised its first employees to work on this project with its newly hired Logistics and Project Superintendent Philippe Nicholas travelling to Congo last weekend, to commence set up of an exploration camp at Kampene. The Company expect to have geologists working on site within a month and would hope to have drill ready targets ready by the end of the summer.

Malcolm Swallow the Company's Chairman commented: "We are delighted to have started work on Kampene and to have our first employee in Congo, Philippe Nicholas, working with WB Kasai our local partners, on the Kampene Gold Project. His prior experience in Logistics, Project Management and Loss Control for First Quantum and Anvil Mining Congo in DRC, means that we will be able to get off to a rapid and focussed start on our exploration program on Kampene. We also expect Philippe and WBK to complement each other while examining the potential for early production from the project using the Small Miners Exploitation permit area to generate early Cashflow from the project."

The Kampene Project lies adjacent to a 7,010 square kilometre licence area for gold exploration owned by Wa Balengela Kasai-Investments Congo sprl, ("WB. Kasai, or WBK") which is the subject of a separate MOU between LAQ and WBK and is currently in the Due Diligence process.