Apogee extends the Pulacayo Silver Deposit 350 meters to the east – Including an Intercept of 5.0 meters grading 451.20g/t Silver

April 19th, 2010, Toronto, Ontario –Apogee Minerals Ltd. (TSX Venture Exchange: APE) reports results from its exploration drilling program at the Pulacayo deposit located in southwest Bolivia (the “Pulacayo Deposit”). This drilling has successfully extended the high grade portion of the Pulacayo Deposit along strike to the east an additional 350 meters from the previously released National Instrument 43- 101 (“NI 43-101”) resource (See Press Releases dated March 15, 2010, January 15, 2010 and February 10, 2009 and the NI 43-101 compliant technical report dated December 2008 filed under the SEDAR profile of the Company at www.sedar.com).
Assays from an additional five drill holes are provided and include the most easterly intercepts of the high grade zone of the Pulcayo Deposit to date. (See Table 1, Figure 3). Highlights from this set of results include:

* DDH PUD-143 which intersected 9 meters grading 351.89 g/t silver 0.06% lead and 0.74% zinc within a 42.74 meter interval that graded 129.13 g/t silver, 0.04% lead and 0.23% zinc.
* DDH PUD-144 intersected 5 meters grading 451.20 g/t silver, 1.03% lead and 0.89% zinc within a 21.00 meter interval that averaged 141.87 g/t silver, 0.42% lead and 0.98% zinc.
* DDH PUD-145 intersected 10 meters grading 231.00 g/t silver, 0.32% lead and 1.52% zinc within a 48.00 meter interval that averaged 84.03g/t silver, 0.16% lead and 0.64% zinc.

These holes are in addition to five drill holes released previously (See News Release Dated April 03, 2008, March 15, 2010 and PUD010 dilled by Apex Silver) bringing the total to ten drills holes in the area to the east of the NI 43-101 resource. These holes intersected:

Chris Collins, P.Geo., President of Apogees states, “The initial ten drill holes into the area to the east give us confidence that with additional drilling, the area has the potential to bring a significant addition to the previously estimated mineral resource.”

Joaquin Merino, VP Exploration of Apogee states, “We are very encouraged as we continue to intersect high grade silver values with the extension of the Pulacayo Deposit, with significant step outs to the east. This drilling has demonstrated the continuity of the mineralization to the east of the current resources for an additional 350m along strike (Figure 2). Apogee will continue with the drilling program to expand the resources which remains open along strike to the east and west and at depth”.

The Pulacayo Deposit is a thick east-west striking zone of conjugate veins, stockwork and disseminated sulphides that locally are up to 200 meters thick with a higher grade core that comprises the resource and may exceed 60 meters in thickness locally. The known strike length of the Tajo Vein System which hosts the Pulacayo deposit is close to 3 kilometers and it remains open at both ends along strike (Figure 2). Mineralization comprises sphalerite, galena and tetrahedrite in sulphide-rich veins ranging from a few centimeters to greater than one meter thick and heavily disseminated sphalerite, galena and tetrahedrite between the veins.

Update on Preliminary Economic Evaluation:

Work continues with Micon International and EPCM (a Bolivian Engineering Firm) on the completion of the preliminary economic evaluation of the property (the “PEA”). The completion of the study is currently behind schedule due to trade off studies being conducted in relation to optimizing the mining. The PEA is based only on the resources from diamond drilling completed prior to December 2008 and does not include any potential new resources that may be added in the area where the deposit is extended.

The following provides detailed results from the most recently completed, additional five drill holes.

Quality Control

The Company employs a quality assurance/quality control protocol on all aspects of the diamond drilling, sampling and analytical procedures. The Quality Control and all aspects of the exploration program are supervised by Apogee’s Vice President of Exploration, Joaquin Merino, P. Geo, a qualified person as defined by NI 43–101. Mr. Merino has reviewed and approves the scientific and technical information presented in this press release.

This release has been approved by Chris Collins, P.Geo., President of Apogee and a qualified person as defined under NI 43-101.

About Apogee Minerals Limited

Apogee Minerals Ltd. is an exploration stage company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol APE. Apogee targets advanced silver-zinc-lead projects in South America that demonstrate potential to be developed to production. Currently its projects are located in the historic silver producing regions of southwest Bolivia and northern Chile.
Its most advanced project is the Pulacayo-Paca project in Bolivia, which is an option to joint venture with Golden Minerals Company. This project includes the property that covered the second-largest silver mine in the history of Bolivia with over 600 million ounces of past production.

For Further Information Contact:

Ana Lopes, Investor Relations – phone: + 416 861-2264
Email: info@apogeesilver.com