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Rockland Cuts 9 g/t Gold in First Assay Results from Schefferville Gold Property, Québec



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Rockland Cuts 9 g/t Gold in First Assay Results from Schefferville Gold Property, Qu�bec

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Vancouver, British Columbia, November 23, 2010 - Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX.V: RL) (the �Company�) is pleased to announce the first assay results from the recently completed 1,525 meter, 12 hole diamond drill program at the Schefferville Gold Project, Qu�bec. The Company rushed-assayed 2 samples from hole RL10-17. These first two samples of half-sawed, BTW diameter drill core encountered grades of 6.63 g/t Au and 9.02 g/t Au in two separate intervals.

Rockland is earning a 55% interest on part of the property from Western Troy Capital Resources Inc. The Western Troy claims are in 10 distinct blocks staked over known gold showings originally discovered in the mid-1980s by Qu�bec government geologists. Many of the claims are contiguous and intermingled with Rockland�s original gold claims, optioned from E.D. Black, where Rockland is earning a 100% interest. The 2010 drilling program was conducted on Western Troy claims.

The early Rockland results confirm gold grades from the area that were discovered by Western Troy in 2009. Hole RL10-17 is located in the main "Ars�ne" showing, roughly 1,700 metres to the north of hole WT09-04 which encountered 5.56 g/t gold over a core length of 7.11 meters in the "Baleine Rouge Central" zone. Rockland is awaiting assays on the remaining samples from Hole RL10-17, and from the remaining 11 holes of the program. The balance of the samples from the drilling have been shipped via rail from Schefferville to the ALS-Chemex prep lab in Val dOr, Qu�bec, and will be reported when received.

hole interval Au As Fe S number from to (metres) g/t ppm % % RL-10-17-03 11.45 12.65 1.20 6.63 9,260 20.7 4.5 iron formation, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite RL-10-17-15 57.30 58.40 1.10 9.02 >10,000 10.0 3.7 iron formation, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite

Rockland geologists selected these samples on the basis of the presence of arsenopyrite, which can be seen in numerous zones in the 2010 drill core. The presence of arsenopyrite is widely recognized as an indicator of microscopically disseminated gold mineralization in this camp. The samples had about 1% arsenic, and roughly 4% total sulfur, which confirms high gold-arsenic values with relatively low sulfide concentrations. The hand-sample textures strongly suggest replacement of previously-formed pyrrhotite (pyrite) by arsenopyrite during a gold-arsenic mineralization event which predates later, cross-cutting Pb-Zn mineralization.

A map of the drilling and pictures of the sample drill core can be viewed at the Company�s website at:

Rockland geologists believe that these first samples will fall within broader zones of disseminated gold-arsenic mineralization, when all the assays from the Fall 2010 drilling are received. Gold mineralization in the Schefferville area was only discovered in the mid-1980s by systematic Qu�bec government regional lake-bottom sediment sampling. The microscopically divided gold, associated with arsenic, does not readily form placer deposits, so the old-time prospectors missed these gold occurrences with their gold pans.

George F. Sanders, P.Geo, a director of the Company, is the Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 responsible for the technical content of this news release.

About Rockland Minerals

Rockland Minerals Corp. (RL � TSX.V) is a Canadian exploration and development company, focused on developing it�s �Schefferville� Gold property in the Ashuanipi Metamorphic Province and it�s �Retty Lake� copper-nickel, platinum group metals (PGM) property in the prolific Labrador Trough area in north east Qu�bec, Canada. Rockland is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "RL". To learn more about Rockland please visit contact Investor Relations Toll Free at (1-888-818-1365).

On behalf of the Board of Directors

�Rav Mlait�

President and CEO
Rockland Minerals Corp.

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