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Strategic Metals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:SMD) ("Strategic") is pleased to announce
that surface exploration and diamond drilling have started at its Midas Touch
and Silver Range projects in Yukon Territory. 


Midas Touch Project

At the 100% owned Midas Touch project located in central Yukon, an exploration
program of diamond drilling, surface prospecting and geochemical sampling has
commenced. With minimum expenditures of $3 million, this program will advance
priority targets for Carlin-style gold mineralization in the vicinity of ATAC
Resources Ltd.'s Rackla Gold Project and new Osiris discovery. Drilling is now
underway at the Crag property, which hosts the only known occurrence of orpiment
and realgar in the trend, other than the Osiris discovery located 40 km to the
east. Previous drilling at the Trent Zone of the Crag property in 1977 by
McIntyre Mines Limited intersected realgar and orpiment in all four drill holes,
with long intervals (up to 92.4 m) in two holes and shorter intervals that
bottomed in mineralization in the other holes. Historical drilling at the Crag
property targeted lead-zinc mineralization. The realgar and orpiment bearing
rocks were not analyzed for gold. Realgar and orpiment often occur with gold in
significant mines within the Carlin Trend of Nevada.


Diamond drilling will also be completed at the Rod claim group, where grid soil
sampling in 2010 outlined a 1500 by 500 m area of anomalous gold results
accompanied by very high silver, antimony, arsenic, mercury and lead values (see
Strategic news release dated Dec. 9, 2010). This area lies in the immediate
footwall of a regional thrust fault, a key structural feature that extends
through a number of claims belonging to Strategic and ATAC. The Rod Anomaly is
underlain by a shale unit which regionally caps the carbonate-rich section that
hosts ATAC's gold discoveries. The nature of the geochemical response coupled
with silver-bearing veins and fractures within the shales suggest that the Rod
Anomaly may represent leakage of fluids from a gold-rich system in the
underlying carbonate strata.


Concurrent with the drilling of the Crag and Rod properties, Strategic will
perform surface geological and geochemical exploration on other properties
within the 700 square kilometer Midas Touch project, in order to rapidly advance
new discoveries to the drill stage. 


Silver Range Project

A comprehensive exploration and drilling program has commenced at the Silver
Range project in the Faro District of south-central Yukon. With up to 25,000 m
of drilling and $14 million in expenditures, this program will follow-up
encouraging 2010 results from the Keg Zone and test five additional large-scale
target areas for bulk tonnage silver-zinc-lead-copper mineralization. At the Keg
Zone, widely-spaced 2010 drilling intersected broad intervals of porphyry-style,
disseminated and stockwork mineralization in all four holes. This drilling
partially tested a 550 m strike length of a 4 kilometer long by several hundred
meter wide geochemical and geophysical anomaly. 


Systematic geological mapping, prospecting, and geochemical surveys will also be
undertaken over the entire 700 square kilometer project to identify new target
areas. During the 1970's and 1980's, the Faro District was the site of the
largest open-pit lead-zinc-silver mining operation in Canada, and the area still
has excellent but now under-utilized infrastructure.


The Silver Range project is the subject of a Plan of Arrangement that will be
voted on at a special general meeting of Strategic shareholders scheduled for
July 15, 2011 (see Strategic news release dated June 13, 2011). If the Plan of
Arrangement is approved, Strategic shareholders will receive shares and
tradeable warrants of a spin-out company, Silver Range Resources Ltd., which
will hold the Silver Range and Mint projects. Full details of the spin-out
transaction are contained within a management information circular dated June 2,
2011 that is being mailed to Strategic shareholder and can be reviewed at
www.sedar.com. No assay results from the Silver Range project will be released,
nor received by Strategic or Silver Range Resources Ltd., until after the Plan
of Arrangement has been completed.


About Strategic Metals Ltd.

Strategic is a pre-eminent explorer and claim owner in the Yukon, with an
exceptional portfolio of more than 160 property and royalty interests. Strategic
currently has approximately $28 million in cash and owns marketable shares of
other resource companies with a total value exceeding $83 million. An additional
$16.4 million in cash is held by Silver Range Resources Ltd., which is currently
a wholly-owned subsidiary of Strategic.


Technical information contained in this news release includes information
summarized from historical assessment reports.  Heather Smith, P.Geo, has
reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this news release.
Ms. Smith is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

W. Douglas Eaton, President and Chief Executive Officer

For further information concerning Strategic or its various exploration projects
please visit our website at www.strategicmetalsltd.com.


This news release may contain forward looking statements based on assumptions
and judgments of management regarding future events or results that may prove to
be inaccurate as a result of exploration and other risk factors beyond its
control, and actual results may differ materially from the expected results.

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