Apoquindo Minerals Inc. ("Apoquindo" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:AQM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Bruno Behn as Vice President of Corporate Affairs. Mr. Behn is a Civil Mining Engineer with over 40 years of experience in mine development and management, having developed his professional career in Chile's state-owned ENAMI and Codelco - the largest copper producer in the world. In 1995 he was awarded the Merit Medal from the Chilean Institute of Mining Engineers and the Julio Donoso Award from the Chilean Institute of Engineers.

For ten years, Mr. Behn worked as Head of Mining Projects for ENAMI. He was the General Manager of Codelco's Salvador Division where he discovered new reserves and oversaw annual production of 90,000 tonnes/year of copper cathodes. During his tenure Codelco, productivity increased 60%. He also served as Chief of the Engineering Development Department for Codelco's El Teniente mine, overseeing its expansion from 1979-81. Mr. Behn was head of the Mining Engineering Department of the University of Chile from 1996 to 2001, and he continues to lecture there.

"Bruno Behn is respected and admired by his peers, the people who work for him and by local and national authorities," says Cesar Lopez, Apoquindo President and CEO. "His expertise will be invaluable in helping us to build a profitable mid-tier Chilean copper company, We are fortunate to now have Bruno not only as a director, but actively involved in the daily management of the company."

About Apoquindo

Apoquindo Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:AQM) is a Canadian based mineral exploration company whose principal purpose is the acquisition and development of base and precious metal deposits in South America. The Company is advancing its Apoquindo Copper Oxide Project in Chile comprised of highly prospective leachable copper deposits under option located in a historic mining district in the Antofagasta Region's Coastal Range.

Management and directors have extensive experience working with and for the world's largest mining companies as well as several mining juniors. Apoquindo Minerals has offices in Santiago, Chile, Lima, Peru and Vancouver, Canada and will continue to expand its business using its effective team of experts in Exploration, Geology, Metallurgy, Mine Engineering, Law and Finance.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Cesar Lopez

APOQUINDO MINERALS INC.

This news release may contain forward - looking information including but not limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming financings, work programs, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral recovery processes, etc. Forward - looking information includes disclosure regarding possible future events, or conditions or results of operations that is based on assumptions about future economic conditions and courses of action, and therefore, involves inherent risks and uncertainties. Although management has a reasonable basis for the conclusions drawn, actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements.

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