Solitaire Minerals Corp. Grants Incentive Stock Options

Solitaire Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SLT) (Solitaire) announces that pursuant
to its stock option plan, the Company has granted incentive stock options to its
directors, officers, consultants, and employees to purchase in the total of
2,750,000 common shares in the capital stock of the company, subject to
regulatory approval, exercisable for a period of five years, at a price of $0.10
per share.


About Solitaire Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SLT) is a diversified Junior
Canadian Mineral Exploration Company with a specific focus on precious and base
metal properties in North America. 


For additional information please contact Solitaire Minerals Corp. or visit
www.solitaireminerals.com.


On Behalf of the Board of Directors

SOLITAIRE MINERALS CORP.

Charles Desjardins, President and Director

Cautionary note:

This report contains forward looking statements. Resource estimates, unless
specifically noted, are considered speculative. Any and all other resource or
reserve estimates are historical in nature, and should not be relied upon. By
their nature, forward looking statements involve risk and uncertainties because
they relate to events and depend on factors that will or may occur in the
future. Actual results may vary depending upon exploration activities, industry
production, commodity demand and pricing, currency exchange rates, and, but not
limited to, general economic factors. Cautionary Note to US investors: The U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission specifically prohibits the use of certain
terms, such as "reserves" unless such figures are based upon actual production
or formation tests and can be shown to be economically and legally producible
under existing economic and operating conditions.