Dr. Diane Nicolson reports

AMARC ANNOUNCES GRANT OF OPTIONS

Amarc Resources Ltd. has granted 3.46 million incentive stock options to its service providers to acquire an aggregate of 3.46 million common shares at 12 cents per share, for periods of three to five years, of which 50 per cent are being granted to insiders. All of the options are subject to required TSX Venture Exchange acceptance and customary vesting provisions over 24 months.

About Amarc Resources Ltd.

Amarc is a mineral exploration and development company with an experienced and successful management team focused on developing a new generation of long-life, high-value porphyry copper-gold mines in British Columbia. By combining high-demand projects with dynamic management, Amarc has created a solid platform to create value from its exploration- and development-stage assets.

Amarc is advancing its 100-per-cent-owned Ike, Duke and Joy porphyry copper plus or minus gold districts located in different prolific porphyry regions of Southern, Central and Northern British Columbia, respectively. Each district represents significant potential for the development of multiple and important-scale, porphyry copper plus or minus gold deposits. Importantly each of the three districts is located in proximity to industrial infrastructure, including power, highways and rail.