The Déline Land Corporation Informs Solitaire Minerals Corp. to Proceed with its Drill Permitting Process In the Great Bear Region Honouring our Current Land Access Agreement

Thursday, January 31, 2008

January 31, 2008: Solitaire Minerals Corp. (TSX-V: SLT) (The Company) is pleased to announce that it had the honour of meeting with senior members of the Déline Land Corporation on January 29, 2008 in Vancouver, B.C. The Déline Land Corp. informed the Company that all agreements preceding the imposed moratorium will be honoured which included Solitaire's Land Access Agreement which allows the Company to proceed with the application for drilling permits on its Eldorado and Mystery Island properties. The Déline also informed the Company that Solitaire Minerals would be able to drill this year after consultation with the Déline Community Members. Solitaire will inform the community of the Company's plans and address all concerns from all members of their Community. It was made clear by the Déline Land Corp. that no new Land Access Agreement's will be approved until the government sits down at the table with their representatives and these issues have been resolved to the approval of the Déline Community. In the spirit of co-operation, the Déline Land Corporation, representing the community of the Déline, has approved the content of this news release.

"We are pleased to learn from the Déline Land Corporation that they welcome Solitaire to explore and proceed with the drilling permitting process on all of our properties in the Great Bear Lake area," said Charles Desjardins, President of Solitaire Minerals Corp., "We look forward to working with the Déline Community to ensure an effective exploration and drill program will be executed that will have minimal environmental impact."

Solitaire Minerals Corp. is also aware that the Déline Community has first class businesses that would aid the Company in its exploration. Solitaire will look to the Déline Community to provide these essential services as their knowledge of the area is unparalleled.

The Eldorado Property, consisting of 887.36 acres, adjoins the Mystery Island property and expands the total property size to 22,717.23 acres. The Eldorado/Mystery Island Property is located at Port Radium on the east side of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, and 423 miles north of the city of Yellowknife.

Charles Desjardins the president of Solitaire Minerals Corp. stated "Solitaire has a tremendous advantage with the acquisition of Kinross technical library. The information on Echo Bay Mines and Eldorado Uranium Mine and exploration reports for the entire mining camp is going to guide our exploration efforts; a combination of data from several historical holes, our ground program, and high priority targets from our Airborne Geophysics will improve our chances of success."

Mystery Island Review
The Mystery Island project consists of approximately 21,830 acres which is being explored for iron-oxide, copper, gold, silver and uranium targets. The mineralization and geology of the Great Bear magmatic zone indicate similarities with the Olympic Dam IOCG deposit. The Olympic Dam, or the IOCG model, is proposed as the main exploration model for the Mystery Island property in this specific part of the Great Bear magmatic zone. The Olympic Dam deposit at Roxby Downs in the Gawler Craton of southwest Australia consists of dike-like, hematite-rich diatreme breccias in granite and felsic volcanics, and has a reported resource of 2.32 billion tonnes of 1.6 per cent copper, 0.5 gram per tonne gold, 3.5 grams per tonne silver and 0.4 kilogram per tonne U3O8. The Mystery Island property is situated in a similar geological setting that has the potential to host high-unit-value polymetallic mineralization associated with large-tonnage, IOCG-type deposits, as well the potential to host Echo Bay-type, high-grade, lower-tonnage U3O8-Ag mineralization.

Eighteen grab samples were originally submitted from the 2006 ground program for 31-element ICP analysis to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd. in Vancouver, B.C. Five samples returned values greater than 10,000 parts per million (1 per cent) copper which is the upper detection limit for this type of analysis. One sample graded 0.13 per cent uranium. Seven anomalous samples were resubmitted for copper assay. These results, with corresponding cobalt (ICP analysis) are listed below:

Table 1: Results from the 2006 Mystery Island Ground Program

Sample #		% Copper		% Cobalt

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MI-06-01		1.202		0.051

MI-06-02		1.826		0.109

MI-06-03		2.665		0.158

MI-06-04		0.916		0.179

MI-06-05		1.577		0.163

MI-06-06		1.467		0.050

MI-06-07		0.774		0.125

*These samples were collected prior to the knowledge from our historical library