VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - June 3, 2010) - Silver Quest Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:SQI) ("Silver Quest" or "the Company") wishes to announce the commencement of the 2010 exploration program on the Boulevard Property ("Boulevard") in Yukon Territory. Boulevard is located 135 kilometres south of Dawson City, 35 kilometres south of the Golden Saddle Deposit and 10 kilometres southwest of Kaminak's Coffee Discovery. The property consists of 238 claim blocks, totaling 4,975 ha. For a property location map and more detailed property information please see the Company's website www.silverquest.ca.

Silver Quest is pleased to have Equity Exploration Consultants Ltd. working on the Boulevard project. Randy Turner, President and CEO of Silver Quest, stated that, "Equity's knowledge and background in working in the Yukon will be a major asset to this year's exploration program." The planned program will include additional staking, geological and alteration mapping, soil sampling.

Silver Quest has defined a 2.5 kilometre long gold-arsenic-antimony-barium soil geochemical anomaly that was tested in 2008 by long cross-cutting trenches. One trench returned values of 7.04 g/t gold over 6 metres; a second returned values of 6.43 g/t gold over 2 metres. A follow-up drill program is planned to include approximately 2,500 metres in 13 drill holes and is anticipated to begin in mid-June. The drill holes will target the depth extension of mineralization found in the 2008 trenches.

David Pawliuk, P. Geo. is the qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and supervised the preparation of the technical information in this release.

		SILVER QUEST RESOURCES LTD.
		Randy Turner, President

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
        Silver Quest Resources Ltd.
        Investor Relations
        604-687-3959
        Fax: 604-687-1448 (FAX)
        info@silverquest.ca
		www.silverquest.ca

Source: Silver Quest Resources Ltd.