Cornerstone Announces Appointment of New Director and Grants Stock Options

Cornerstone Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:CCC) (the "Company") is pleased to announce
the appointment of Jason Nickel, P.Eng. to the Board of Directors of the
Company. Mr. Nickel replaces Mr. Willis Osborne who has resigned his Board
position. The Company wishes to thank Bill Osborne for his contribution to the
Company.


Mr. Nickel has been involved in advancing several mining projects in BC, Yukon
and NWT. He is currently VP of Operations at ROCK Construction and Mining Inc.,
a mining contractor based in Kamloops, BC, focused on drilling and blasting
services across Canada. Previously, Mr. Nickel was VP Mining for New Pacific
Metals, responsible for advancing the Tagish Lake Gold Project in the Yukon.
Prior to that he was Mine Manager of Capstone Mining Corp.'s Minto Mine. He also
worked as a Senior Mining Engineer at De Beers Canada's Snap Lake Diamond Mine
and as a Mining Engineer at the Highland Valley Copper Mine. 


Courtney Shearer, interim CEO of Cornerstone stated, "Jason Nickel brings
additional mining and operations skills to our board, which we expect will
further enhance our ability to evaluate, acquire and develop more advanced stage
mining projects."


The Company also announces the grant of 750,000 stock options to directors,
officers and consultants pursuant to the terms of the Company's stock option
plan. The options are exerciseable at a price of $0.12 per share, for a period
of 5 years from the date of grant. 


Courtney Shearer, Interim CEO and President 

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exploration and potential development of the Company's projects, risks related
to international operations, the actual results of current exploration
activities, conclusions of economic evaluations, changes in project parameters
as plans continue to be refined, future prices of gold, as well as those factors
discussed in the sections relating to risk factors of the Company set out in the
Company's MD&A filed on SEDAR.


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