Mr. Julio Espaillat reports

GOLDQUEST: DRILL RESULTS AT LAS TRES PALMAS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND EXTENSION OF THE GUAMA INDUCED POLARIZATION TREND

Goldquest Mining Corp. has released assay results from eight drill holes on the company's 100-per-cent-owned Las Tres Palmas trend in the Dominican Republic. The holes tested the northern and eastern boundaries of the Romero gold/copper discovery zone and around the Escandalosa National Instrument 43-101-compliant mineral resource.

In addition, new induced polarization (IP) geophysics have extended the recently announced Guama IP trend to over three kilometres in length and up to two kilometres in width. The trend remains open to the north and south. The trend includes three high chargeability occurrences within a broad chargeability high, with the central zone previously reported on March 27, 2013. The northern target is open to the north and is considered a broad circular anomaly with a more chargeable outer portion, coincident with float samples up to 34 per cent native copper and a less chargeable central area. Based on this IP signature, preliminary interpretation suggests an intrusive centre. The southern target is only partially covered by the IP survey at this time, and is open to the south and west, associated with silicified chip samples returning up to 17 per cent copper. IP surveys will be extended over the next few weeks to cover extensions of the Guama trend.

"This round of drilling and the drop-off in copper and gold grades is consistent with the lower chargeability on the periphery of the Romero anomaly," commented Julio Espaillat, Goldquest's chief executive officer. "Las Tres Palmas trend appears to now have at least two separate gold centres, where enhanced mineralization within a proposed feeder zone, as seen in LTP-94 (235 metres grading 7.9 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 1.4 per cent copper; see release of Aug. 27, 2012) has been identified at the first, Romero, but no feeder zone has been located to date at the second centre, Escandalosa. The three-kilometre-long IP Guama trend, two kilometres west of Romero, is coincident with numerous high-grade copper outcrops and appears to be longer and wider than the mineralized Las Tres Palmas trend. The Guama trend will be drilled as soon as mapping, sampling and geophysical data has been fully compiled, and IP cross-sections have been completed."

                           RESULTS FROM THE NEW HOLES 
                                                                        Gold
                                                                       (g/t)
                                                  Gold                50 g/t
                 From         To   Interval      (g/t)     Copper        top
Hole ID           (m)        (m)        (m)      uncut        (%)    cut-off

LTP-125         63.08      68.58       5.50       0.36          -       0.36
               354.00     369.00      15.00       0.36          -       0.36
               407.00     413.00       6.00       0.35          -       0.35
LTP-126        176.45     209.00      32.55       0.17          -       0.17          
               221.00     249.00      28.00       0.17          -       0.17
LTP-127        410.00     458.00      48.00       0.17       0.04       0.17         
               480.36     495.00      14.64       0.28       0.17       0.28
LTP-128         92.00     134.00      42.00       0.57          -       0.57         
               245.00     261.00      16.00       0.28          -       0.28         
               346.00     382.00      36.00       0.61          -       0.61
LTP-130         79.35      89.46      10.11       2.72       0.09       2.72         
               124.00     140.00      16.00       0.76       0.35       0.76
LTP-131        212.00     240.00      28.00       0.42       0.06       0.42
LTP-134                                         No significant intersections

The drilling reported herein can be viewed on-line in two drilling maps. Of the eight holes released today, LTP-125, LTP-128 and LTP-130 tested the deep IP targets around Escandalosa, seeking a potential sulphide-rich root to Escandalosa, where a National Instrument 43-101-compliant inferred resource of 3.1 million tonnes grading 3.14 g/t gold has been found by Goldquest (see release of Aug. 20, 2012). The drilling did not encounter high-grade mineralization consistent with a feeder zone, and further drilling is being considered to understand the Escandalosa system. In addition to the Escandalosa holes, LTP-126 was an infill hole drilled between Romero north and Romero south and LTP-129, an inclined hole, and LTP-131, a vertical hole, were collared 160 metres south of LTP-126 and tested the eastern flank of Romero. Hole LTP-134 tested the eastern end of the Romero south IP anomaly, that appears to be enriched in pyrite, the source of the IP anomaly, but weakly mineralized in gold and copper.

Drilling is continuing with samples from holes LTP-132 and LTP-133 delivered to Acme laboratories for assay. LTP-135 and LTP-136 have been completed and are being logged and sampled. LTP-137 is in progress south of Romero, and further drilling is being planned to better define Romero. Two drill rigs are being readied to drill the Guama trend and other anomalies on the property including targets along the Las Tres Palmas trend.

The individual two-metre assay intervals from all holes drilled on the Las Tres Palmas trend are available on-line (see Las Tres Palmas assays); in addition the collar location, hole azimuth and dips for Las Tres Palmas holes are also available on the company's website.

The company will continue to release new drill hole results in batches as their analysis is completed. ACME Labs has been instructed to release assays to the company only once the batches have been completed. The potential quantity and grade are conceptual in nature, there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource, and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the target being delineated as a mineral resource.

As part of the company's quality assurance and quality control procedures (QA/QC), most of the high-grade intervals are reassayed and the company is awaiting these check samples. In addition, systematic reassaying of intervals is in progress to confirm compliance of blanks and duplicates checks. The company also reviews results from certified standard reference materials, which are inserted at a rate of five per 100 samples. Within the results disclosed herein there were two samples, which had results outside the recommended tolerances for copper. The samples in this batch are not from a mineralized interval and the company has not requested reassay of the batches.

In Goldquest's drill programs, composite intervals were chosen using a combination of geological criteria and mineralization, averaging around two metres of core length. The drill core is cut in half with one-half of the core sample shipped to ACME Labs by Goldquest technicians. The remaining half of the core is kept at the company core shack for future assay verification, or any other further investigation. Assays within intervals below the 0.005 g/t detection limit for Au were given a zero value. All drill samples were prepared and screened by ACME Labs (Santo Domingo); metallic fire assays and multielement ICP-MS were assayed by ACME Analytical Laboratories (Chile). Gold values are determined by standard fire assay with an AA finish, or, if over 10 g/t Au, were reassayed and completed with a gravimetric finish. QA/QC included the insertion and continual monitoring of numerous standards, blanks and duplicates into the sample stream, at random intervals within each batch. The comprehensive Goldquest quality assurance and quality control protocols can be viewed on Goldquest's website (see corporate governance).

The information in this press release has been reviewed and approved by Jeremy Niemi, PGeo, the director, technical services, of Goldquest and a qualified person for the technical information in this press release under NI 43-101 standards.

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