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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Business Wire) -- SACRE-COEUR MINERALS, LTD. the "Company") is pleased to announce
that Ms. Jennifer Todhunter has been appointed to serve as the new Chief
Financial Officer of the Company, replacing Mr. Mark Lotz. Mr. Lotz has
resigned as CFO and as a Director in order to pursue other professional
and personal interests, including the development of his own accounting
practice.




Ms. Todhunter has recently served as the Company's VP Financial
Administration and Corporate Secretary. Prior to that, she served as
Finance Manager, from May 2005. Ms. Todhunter has extensive accounting
and finance experience, dealing with the complexities of both private
and public corporations. She has spent the last thirteen years working
with public companies, predominantly those in the mining industry.




In connection with the appointment of Ms. Todhunter as CFO, the Company
has granted her incentive stock options, subject to any necessary
regulatory approvals, to purchase up to 75,000 shares of its Common
Stock. The options are exercisable for a term of three years at a price
of CAD $0.11 per share.




According to Mr. Gregory Sparks, CEO of the Company, "We thank Mark for
his valuable contributions to Sacre-Coeur Minerals over the past year
and wish him well in his new endeavors. Over the past seven years with
the Company, Jennifer has proven herself to be a highly capable senior
financial administrator. She is thoroughly familiar with all financial
and legal aspects of the Company, and is very well qualified to
seamlessly take on her new role as CFO. We are delighted to welcome
Jennifer into this important senior executive role."




About Sacre-Coeur




The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development, and
production of properties for gold, metals and diamonds in South America,
initially focussing on exploration and production of gold from its
properties in Guyana. The Company presently holds 100% interest in
approximately 850 sq. km of mineral properties in Guyana, including the
Million Mountain Property which hosts an NI 43-101 compliant hard-rock
resource of 12,119,285 tonnes grading 1.0 g/t Au Measured, and 2,175,278
tonnes grading 0.9 g/t Au Indicated for a total 451,000 tr oz Au
combined. The Company has offices in Vancouver, Canada and Georgetown,
Guyana.




ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF




SACRE-COEUR MINERALS, LTD.




"Gregory B. Sparks"




Gregory B. Sparks, P. Eng.




President & CEO




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This news release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995 or "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable
Canadian securities laws, which we will refer to as "forward-looking
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expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends",
"anticipates" or "believes" or the negatives thereof or variations of
such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or
results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be
achieved. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to,
statements pertaining to development activities, commissioning of
environmental studies, application for necessary permits for production
operations, metallurgical studies, commissioning of a third party
feasibility study, arrangement of financing for development, formal
production decisions, business combinations.




We can give no assurance that the forward-looking information will prove
to be accurate. Forward-looking information by its nature is based on
assumptions and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors, including those discussed in the Company's quarterly and
annual management discussion and analysis, which are available at
performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different
from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or
implied by such forward-looking information. The forward-looking
information is based on a number of assumptions that management believes
are reasonable, including but not limited to assumptions about: the
price of gold; the financial condition of the Company; anticipated costs
and expenditures; estimated production; mineral resources or reserves;
and metallurgical recoveries; general business conditions; and the
ability to achieve our goals. The forward-looking information is also
subject to certain risks, uncertainties and other factors associated
with our business, including but not limited to: gold price volatility;
risks of not meeting production and cost targets; discrepancies between
actual and estimated production; mineral reserves and resources and
metallurgical recoveries; mining operational and development risk;
litigation risks; regulatory restrictions, including environmental
regulatory restrictions and liability; risks of sovereign investment and
operating in foreign countries; currency fluctuations; speculative
nature of gold exploration; global economic climate; dilution; share
price volatility; competition; loss of key employees; additional funding
requirements; and defective title to mineral claims or property, as well
as those factors discussed in the Company's quarterly and annual
management discussion and analysis. Should underlying assumptions prove
incorrect, or should one or more of the risks, uncertainties or other
factors materialize, actual results may vary materially from those
expressed or implied in the forward-looking information.




Forward-looking information is designed to help you understand
management's current views of our near and longer term prospects, and it
may not be appropriate for other purposes. Forward-looking information
is based on the reasonable beliefs, estimates and opinions of management
at the date the statements are made and is subject to change without
notice. These factors should be carefully considered and viewers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information,
which speaks only as of the date of this news release. We will not
necessarily update this information unless we are required to by
applicable securities laws.








Sacre-Coeur Minerals, Ltd.Gregory Sparks, President and CEOEmail:
greg@scminerals.comPhone:
604-899-0100Fax: 604-899-0200orDon Mosher-B&D Capital,
Corporate ConsultantEmail: don@scminerals.comPhone:
604-899-0100Mobile: 604-617-5448Fax: 604-899-0200