VAL D'OR, QC, May 24 - Hinterland Metals Inc. (TSXV:HMI) is pleased to announce that Vaughn MacLellan has been appointed to the Board of Directors. Mr. MacLellan is a partner with Wildeboer Dellelce LLP, a Toronto-based securities and corporate finance law firm, who practices securities, corporate finance and corporate-commercial law. Mr. MacLellan holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Nova Scotia Barristers Society. Mr. MacLellan is also a director of San Anton Resource Corporation (TSX: SNN) and a member of the Ontario Advisory Committee of the TSX Venture Exchange. Pursuant to Hinterland’s stock option plan, 250,000 incentive stock options will be granted to Mr. MacLellan. Subject to regulatory approval, the options will be exercisable at a price of $0.17 per share for a period of five years or within 90 days of the termination of Mr. MacLellan’s position with Hinterland. In addition, Hinterland wishes to announce that Andrew Lee Smith will not be standing for re-election at Hinterland’s Annual General Meeting scheduled for June 8, 2007 in Montreal, Quebec. The Board and management extend their gratitude to Mr. Smith for his past contributions to Hinterland and wish him the best in his present and future endeavors. Investors are invited to visit the Hinterland IR Hub at http://www.agoracom.com/IR/Hinterland where they can post questions and receive answers or review questions and answers already posted by other investors. Alternatively, investors are able to e-mail all questions and correspondence to hmi@agoracom.com where they can also request addition to the investor e-mail list to receive all future press releases and updates in real time. -30- For more information please contact: Mark Fekete, President at Toll Free 1-877-874-8182 E-mail: info@hinterlandmetals.com Website: http://www.hinterlandmetals.com The TSX Venture Exchange does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This release contains forward-looking statements reflecting the Company’s objectives, estimates and expectations for its projects. These statements are identified by the use of verbs such as "estimate", "believe", "anticipate", "intend", "expect", "plan", "may", "should", "will", and the negative thereof or other variations thereon or comparable terminology. By their very nature, these types of statements involve risk and uncertainty. Consequently, results could differ materially from the Company’s projections or expectations.