Metanor Drills 3.42 g/t Au Over 22.4m and 4.02 g/t Au Over 16.63m at Barry

VAL-D'OR, QUEBEC, CANADA--(Marketwire - 01/13/10) - Metanor Resources Inc. (TSX-V:MTO - News) is pleased to announce new results of the drilling campaign executed on the Barry property which continues to extend mineralized zones of the Center Zone located between Zone 43 and the West Zone. The current drilling campaign extended the Main zone on the Footwall of the deformation corridor and zone 43-Central on the Hanging wall of this corridor, and to define gold bearing mineralized lenses between these two zones (Inter Zones).

Diamond drill hole MB-09-483 intersected on section 780 E a wide sheared and mineralized zone which coincides with the Main Zone and returned at a vertical depth of 70m below surface a gold intersection of 2.33 g/t Au over 39.3m including 3.42 g/t Au over 22.4m and 3.68 g/t Au over 5.0m (Main Zone).

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 Section    DDH      Zone    Elevation From (m)  To (m)  Width (m) Au (g/t)
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  760E   MB-09-481   South     -10m      15.0     18.0      3.0      4.42
            And      Main      -80m     105.0   121.63    16.63      4.02
  780 E  MB-09-483                       63.1    102.4     39.3      2.33
         Including   Main      -70m      80.0    102.4     22.4      3.42
            And      Main      -75m      97.4    102.4      5.0      3.68
  816E   MB-09-422  Center              12.25     21.5     9.25      2.26
         Including             -12m      18.5     21.5      3.0      4.73
  830E   MB-09-477  Center     -65m     84.65    92.35      7.7      6.41
            And      Main     -100m    136.50   138.75     2.25      3.69
  840E   MB-09-442   Inter     -75m      75.5     87.5     12.0      2.22
         Including                       75.5    80.65     5.15      4.16
  870E   MB-09-468  Center     -55m     75.75     77.5     1.75      3.22
            And      Inter     -75m      96.8    105.0     8.20      4.09
         Including                       97.5    104.1     6.60      4.79
  880E   MB-09-470  Center     -58m     72.35     84.5    12.15      2.46
         Including                       74.5     83.0      8.5      3.20
            And      Main      -115m    158.7   162.25     3.55      5.96
  890E   MB-09-471  Center     -22m      27.5     36.1      8.6      3.67
  1050E  MB-09-396 43-Center   -25m      30.5     35.0      4.5      2.97
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            And      Inter     -50m      57.5     60.5      3.0      4.44
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Results obtained with this diamond drilling campaign carried out mainly on the mineral-bearing zones of the Central zone located at approximately 80 meters to the south of the main zone confirm the potential to define new resources in each gold bearing zone in the deformation corridor which crosses the Barry property. Other assay results are still pending.

The true width is approximately 85 to 90 % of the core length obtained in diamond drill holes. Analyses were performed by fire assay at the Bachelor Mine laboratory with verification of some samples at the ALS Assay Laboratory in Val-d'Or, Quebec.

Mr. Andre Tremblay, P Eng. is the qualified person pursuant to National Instrument 43-101 and supervised the technical information presented in the news release.

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Andre Tremblay
VP Exploration
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