VAL-D'OR, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - March 11, 2010) - Hinterland Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:HMI) is pleased to announce it has resumed drilling on the Lockout property located 100km due east of Lebel-sur-Quevillon, Quebec. The property is situated in the Barry-Urban Greenstone Belt approximately 4km west of Eagle Hill's Windfall Lake Project and 8km north of Metanor Resources' Barry open pit gold mine. The current program will systematically test the Panache Gold Zone over a 1.2km distance. Hinterland identified the gold-bearing zone following a drill program done in September 2009 that intersected gold mineralization in all seven of the holes drilled. Highlights of the September program included up to 5.2g/t Au over 2.0m within a zone of 1.7g/t Au over 7.0m (Hinterland Press Release October 28, 2009). Intersections varied from 6.2 to 12.9m in width and from 0.6 to 1.7g/t Au in grade. The gold mineralization was found along the contact between mafic volcanic rocks and a graphitic unit and appears to be related to porphyry dykes injected adjacent to the contact.

"Our timing with this drill program is great considering the renewed interest in the area brought on by Eagle Hill. Hinterland's skill has always been in getting into prospective areas early on like Barry-Urban in Quebec and White Gold in Yukon" comments Mark Fekete, President and CEO of Hinterland.

The analytical results referred to in this release were determined at Bourlamaque Assay Laboratories ("Bourlamaque") in Val d'Or, Quebec by fire assay, atomic absorption technique for gold. Bourlamaque is not accredited but it is independent of HMI, maintains an internal quality control program and participates annually in CANMET round-robin proficiency testing. Also, HMI inserts blanks, standards and duplicates according to an independently designed and monitored QAQC program. Mark Fekete, P.Geo is the designated "qualified person" as defined in Section 1.2 in and for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 responsible for the preparation of this release.

Investors are invited to visit the Hinterland IR Hub at www.agoracom.com/IR/Hinterland  where they can post questions and receive answers or review messages already posted by other investors. Alternatively, investors are able to e-mail all questions and correspondence to HMI@agoracom.com where they can also request to be added to the investor e-mail list in order to receive all future press releases and updates in real time. Also note that Mark Fekete will be discussing Hinterland's gold projects in an interview to be posted on Agoracom early next week.

This release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to vary materially from targeted results. Such risks and uncertainties include those described in the Company's periodic reports including the annual report or in the filings made by the Company from time to time with securities regulators. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revision of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they are made or to reflect the occurrence of an unanticipated event.

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