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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 6, 2010) - Apoquindo Minerals (TSX VENTURE:AQM)(BVLAC:AQM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Toronto-based Ann Gibbs as Director of Investor Relations. This appointment reflects the Company's ongoing commitment to develop relationships with the investment community in the major resource markets.

Ms. Gibbs will focus on building relationships with the broker and institutional investment community, while additionally developing external investor awareness and communications campaigns. Ms. Gibbs' prior involvement in the mining industry includes representation of a number of exploration and development companies, including Frontera Copper Corporation, Bannerman Resources, Goldcrest Resource Corporation, First Nickel Inc., International Nickel Ventures Corp. and Kensington Resources Ltd. She has developed and led investor relations programs that encompass the spectrum of corporate activities including financings and project advancement from feasibility to production.

"As Apoquindo enters an intense period of project and corporate development, it is necessary to increase our investor relations activity," says Bruce Turner, President and CEO of Apoquindo Minerals. "The addition of Ann to our team will enhance and expand our reach in the investment community as we demonstrate the importance of investor communications."

Ms. Gibbs has been granted options to acquire 200,000 common shares of the company at Cdn$0.71 per share, subject to certain vesting provisions and the terms of the Company's Stock Option Plan.

ABOUT APOQUINDO: Apoquindo Minerals is a Canadian based mineral exploration company whose principal purpose is the acquisition and development of base metal deposits in South America. The Company has two projects in Peru through its wholly owned Peruvian subsidiary, Minera Koritambo SAC: the Zafranal Copper-Gold Porphyry Project (recently optioned from Teck Resources Limited's Peruvian subsidiary, Teck Cominco Peru S.A.), located in the Paleocene Southern Peru Cu-Porphyry Belt, in the department of Arequipa, Peru and the Pachagon Porphyry Copper Project, located in the department of La Libertad, Peru. In Chile, the Company has a joint venture, Antakena Mining, with Minera S.A. to advance the Apoquindo Copper Oxide Project comprised of highly prospective leachable copper deposits under option located in a historic mining district in the Antofagasta Region's Coastal Range. Please refer to [ www.apoquindominerals.com ] for further information regarding the Company and its projects.