La Quinta Resources Welcomes Peter Olander to the Board

La Quinta Resources Corporation (TSX VENTURE:LAQ)(FRANKFURT:LQK) ("La Quinta"),
is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Olander, M.Sc., to the Board of
Directors. Mr. Olander, a professional geologist with 33 years in minerals
exploration and development, specializes in project and operations management in
the mining and mineral exploration sectors. He has advised several major mining
companies in geologic and economic evaluations, including acquisition of
projects or business units demonstrating economic viability as well as
evaluation of country risk in international work.


Glen Watson, CEO of the Company stated: "La Quinta is very fortunate to have
attracted such a talented mining professional to join our team as an Independent
Director to the Board. We look forward to Mr. Olander's assistance as the
Company develops its gold and silver and copper projects in Nevada, USA and
British Columbia, Canada."


Pursuant to the Stock Option Plan as approved by shareholders at the last Annual
General Meeting, La Quinta announces the granting of 350,000 incentive stock
options to Peter Olander. The options vest immediately and are exercisable at
CAN$ 0.10 for a term of five years. The granting of the said options is subject
to acceptance by the applicable securities regulatory agencies.


About La Quinta Resources Corporation

La Quinta is a junior precious metals exploration company actively seeking
mineral opportunities for the benefit of our stakeholders. Currently the Company
is focused on exploring for gold, silver and copper on its Easter and Black Jack
properties in Nevada and on Carruthers Pass, British Columbia. The Easter
Project is underlain by an epithermal quartz-adularia vein stockwork system
hosted within Tertiary volcanic rocks of the Caliente Caldron Complex of
southeastern Nevada. Numerous drill programs were conducted over the past 27
years by several operators. The resultant 121 holes and five adits were used to
outline a 43-101 compliant resource of 2.6 million tons at 1.3 g/t gold (0.038
oz/t) and 14 g/t silver (0.4 oz/t) within an area of gold mineralization with a
strike length of at least 6,450 feet (1,966 m) and drill-defined widths up to 90
feet (27.4 m). Significant prior intercepts include up to 0.194 oz. Au / ton
over 90 feet (6.6 g/t over 27.4m true thickness) (including 0.549 oz. Au / ton
over 15 feet (18.8 g/t over 4.5m)) and 0.084 oz. / ton over 110 feet (including
0.534 oz. Au / ton over 5 feet) (2.88 g/t over 33.5 m w/internal 18.3 g/t in
1.52 m). The Black Jack property, an early-stage exploration target in NE
Nevada, consists of old mine workings that contain silver- gold-base metals
veins hosted in Ordovician limestones that overlie nearby Cambrian shale. The
Carruthers Pass property is a massive sulfide project with copper, gold and
silver located 70km south of Kemess copper-gold mine. The project consists of 8
claims covering 3,250 hectares. No resources have been indentified in either
Black Jack or Carruthers Pass properties.


On behalf of the board

Glen Watson, CEO and Director

This document includes forward-looking statements. When used in this document,
the words "potential", "plan", "could", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "may",
"should", and similar expressions are intended to be among the statements that
identify forward-looking statements. Although La Quinta believes that their
expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, such
statements involve risks and uncertainties and no assurance can be given that
actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements.


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