Matamec Announced Results on Channel Sampling on the Kipawa Rare Earth Elements-Yttrium-Zirconium Deposit on its Zeus

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Jun 30 (MARKET WIRE) --
Matamec Explorations Inc. ("Matamec")(TSX VENTURE: MAT) is pleased to
announce that it has received the report titled "Independent Channel
Sampling on the Zeus Property in Temiscamingue for Matamec Explorations
Inc." from SGS Geostat Ltd ("SGS"), filed on Matamec's website
(www.matamec.com/Properties/Zeus). Begun in November 2008, this
independent re-sampling of four of Unocal Canada Ltd. ("Unocal")'s
thirteen historic trenches is the first step in Matamec's plan to
complete a NI 43-101 compliant resource report in the near future.

The Zeus property is situated 160 km south-east of Rouyn-Noranda and 65
km east of Temiscaming (Figure 1, available at the following address:
http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/Zeus1.pdf). The property is 100% owned
by Matamec and is composed of 260 designated claim cells comprising more
than 15,303 hectares. It includes the Kipawa Deposit (also known as the
Sheffield Zone), with historical resources in yttrium and zirconium, as
well as six (6) rare earth elements ("REE"), yttrium and zirconium
showings: PB, PS, Couleuvre, Falaise, TH and Surprise (Figure 2,
available at the followingt :
http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/zeus2.pdf).

The Kipawa Deposit is composed of the West Main Zone (1.26 Mt @ 0.15%
Y2O3 and 0.96% ZrO2), the Central Zone containing no established
resources and, finally, the East Main Zone (1.009 Mt @ 0.14% Y2O3 and
1.17% ZrO2). Due to its favourable location, an open pit method of mining
was contemplated for this deposit in 1990. Please note that as a
qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify the historical
estimates as current mineral resources, the issuer is not treating the
historical estimates as current mineral resources and the historical
estimates should not be relied upon. The Kipawa deposit is presently
considered open both laterally and at depth.

In 1990, best and most continuous yttrium values were thought to occur in
the upper part of the syenite gneiss unit (itself situated at the base of
the Kipawa Alkaline Complex), in areas containing eudialyte,
mosandrite/yttro-titanite and minor britholite minerals. It should be
noted that REE content was not systematically measured in drill holes at
the time since the main element considered was yttrium. REE applications
have drastically increased since then though, particularly in relation to
heavy REE (Tb to Lu), and a possible short on the world supply of
Lanthanum (La), Terbium (Tb), Dysprosium (Dy) and Yttrium (Y) has been
forecast for 2014 by end users as well as by Dudley J Kingsnorth ("The
Rare Earths Market: Can Supply Meet Demand in 2014?", PDAC, March 2009).

In addition to historic diamond drill holes, thirteen 100-meter
overburden trenches were dug and channel-sampled on the Kipawa deposit in
1990 for a total of 666.5 meters sampled. Channel samples were then
tested for Yttrium (Y) and Zirconium (Zr) only. A total of six 300 to 800
lbs bulk samples and four 50 lbs bulk samples were also blasted from the
trenches at that time. Four (4) of these were analyzed for Y and Zr,
three were analysed for Y, Zr and the lanthanide series of rare earths
and four were sent to Mountain States R&D International for separation
and leaching tests.

In the sampling described here, four trenches with four channels were
reproduced by Matamec in order to verify previous historic results and to
test rare earth element distribution over their entire length. Two
trenches tested the width of the Western Sheffield Zone (trenches T-1 and
T-3), one tested the Eastern Sheffield Zone (trench T-8) and the last
tested the zone between the two which has no calculated historic
resources (trench T-11). Results are presented in Table 1 (for sampling
Quality Control and selection of the most appropriate analysis method,
see SGS report pages 3 and 4).

Table 1: Summary of results (%), averaged by trench

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Kipawa
Deposit - West Central East
Zones
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Trench# T-1 T-1- T-3 T-3- T-11 T-11- T-8 T-8-
Best Best Best Best
intervals intervals intervals intervals
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Number of
samples 36 17 27 12 29 4 16 10
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Samples# 501 503 537 537 564 568 593 599
-536 -519 -563 -548 -592 -571 -608 -608
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Sample
length
metres) 68.0 33.0 53.4 24.2 56.2 8 30.8 18
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La 0.121 0.210 0.053 0.062 0.051 0.088 0.122 0.159
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Ce 0.239 0.410 0.127 0.156 0.110 0.180 0.251 0.338
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Pr 0.025 0.041 0.016 0.022 0.012 0.019 0.031 0.042
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Nd 0.110 0.188 0.064 0.088 0.045 0.065 0.119 0.161
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Sm 0.023 0.038 0.014 0.021 0.009 0.012 0.027 0.037
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Eu 0.003 0.005 0.002 0.003 0.001 0.001 0.003 0.005
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Gd 0.024 0.040 0.015 0.023 0.008 0.013 0.029 0.041
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LREE(i) 0.50 0.85 0.29 0.37 0.24 0.75 0.58 0.78
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Tb 0.004 0.007 0.003 0.004 0.002 0.002 0.005 0.007
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Dy 0.028 0.044 0.018 0.028 0.010 0.014 0.032 0.044
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Ho 0.006 0.009 0.004 0.006 0.002 0.003 0.008 0.011
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Er 0.017 0.027 0.012 0.019 0.007 0.010 0.023 0.033
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Tm 0.002 0.004 0.002 0.003 0.001 0.002 0.004 0.005
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Yb 0.014 0.020 0.012 0.018 0.008 0.009 0.022 0.030
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Lu 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.001 0.001 0.003 0.004
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HREE(i) 0.07 0.11 0.05 0.08 0.03 0.08 0.09 0.12
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Total REE 0.57 0.96 0.34 0.45 0.27 0.83 0.67 1.00
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Y 0.13 0.21 0.09 0.15 0.06 0.17 0.17 0.24
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Zr 0.61 0.53 0.87 0.77 1.00 0.31 0.65 0.74
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U 0.004 0.013 0.004 0.011 0.003 0.002 0.007 0.009
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Th 0.04 0.07 0.03 0.04 0.03 0.04 0.06 0.08
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(i)equals Light rare earths(LREE) equals La to Gd, Heavy rare earths(HREE)
equals Tb to Lu.

N.B. Analysis results converted from oxides.

For yttrium (Y), SGS finds an acceptable correlation coefficient
(0.917) between 1990 data by Unocal and 2008 data by SGS with a good
coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.841. Also, out of 101 samples
compared between 1990 and 2008, we find 41 samples superior in 2008, 59
samples lower in 2008 and 1 sample exactly equal. A sign test reveals
that SGS cannot affirm that 1990 Yttrium results are different from 2008
results and we have to accept that results are confirmed. Modern
zirconium results, on the other hand, are inferior by a factor of 15% to
1990 historical results. Most likely causes for this discrepancy are (1)
differing lab preparation and/or differences in analytical methods or (2)
geological variations at minimal distances (nugget effects). Note that
zirconium mineralization is only partially associated with rare-earth and
yttrium mineralization at Kipawa and that the two types of mineralization
are to be considered separately.

SGS concludes that the 108 samples confirmed the Sheffield Zone's high
mineralization in rare earth, especially for Ce (cerium), Dy
(dysprosium), Er (erbium), Gd (gadolinium), La (lanthanum), Nd
(neodymium), Pr (praseodymium), Sm (samarium) and Y (yttrium). In
addition, the average concentration of radioactive contaminants is low,
namely 0.005 % U3O8 and 0.045 % ThO2.

In other areas, a property-wide NI 43-101 technical report is nearing
completion. As for the four new Y-REE-Zr showings discovered in 2008,
samples were sent to Universite Laval in Quebec City in order to identify
Y-REE-Zr bearing minerals. The result of this work will be known later
this summer. The geological data in this press release was prepared by
Aline Leclerc, geologist and Matamec's Vice-President Exploration, a
Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101.

About Matamec

Matamec is exploring for significant gold deposits in the Timmins mining
camp in Ontario, of which the three main targets are the following:
Matheson JV with Goldcorp Canada Ltd and Goldcorp Inc., Montclerg and 2W
properties. In Quebec, the Company is exploring mainly for precious and
base metals on Lesperance/Wachigabau with Northern Superior Resources
Inc., Sakami, Tansim, Valmont and Vulcain properties, rare metals and
uranium on Tansim, and REE on Zeus property.

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Contacts:
Matamec Exploration inc.
Andre Gauthier
President
514-844-5252
info@matamec.com
Website: www.matamec.com

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