Board of Director / Officer Changes

Jun. 11, 2010 (TheNewswire.ca) --

Vancouver, B.C. - Upper Canyon Minerals Corp. (TSXV:UCM) (the "Company") announces the following board/officer changes. Tom Thomsen has been appointed the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective June 4th, 2010. Mr. Thomsen has been a member of the board of directors since October, 2007.

Jack Bal, the Company's outgoing President and Chief Executive Officer, will remain with the Company as a valued member of the Board of Directors.

The Company wishes to announce the appointment of Lorne Torhjelm as a director of the company. Mr. Torhjelm has been the Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Company since October, 2007. In addition, Brian Thurston has joined the board. Mr. Thurston is a geologist with over 17 years of exploration management experience.

The Company announces that Yi (Alex) Liu, Simon Tam and Frank Chen have tendered their resignations as Directors. The Directors wish them well and thank them for their service.

Upper Canyon Minerals Corp. is a growth oriented mineral-exploration resource company trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (Symbol: UCM). The objective of the Company is to enhance its value via high mineralization resource properties with a goal of advancing them into commercial production. The Company is currently exploring two properties: the Josefina Silver and Base Metals Project, located in the Huarochiri Province of Lima, Peru, which comprises 5600 hectares and includes the past producing Josefina Silver and Base Metals mine and the Brosner Gold property located near Val d'Or, Abitibi, in Quebec, Canada. The Brosnor property hosts gold bearing structures, striking east-west, in which quartz-pyrite-tourmaline veins, concentrated in more competent rock units carry gold values in various amounts. The most important structure identified to date hosts two main gold zones, namely the Adelemont and Norcourt zones. In addition to the two properties, the Company has signed an Option/Joint Venture Agreement with Q-Gold Resources Ltd (OOTC:QGLDF) (TSXV:QGR) (Q-Gold). Under terms of the Agreement, the Company may earn a 49% participating interest in two large, prospective gold exploration tracts owned by Q-Gold totalling 2,467.7 acres

For additional information, contact Jack Bal at (604) 633-2442, toll free 1-800-667-1442, e-mail

jbal@uppecanyonminerals.com, or visit website www.uppercanyonminerals.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

"Jack Bal "

JATINDER (JACK) BAL

Director

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