GoldQuest Announces Results from Seven Holes Drilled at its Escandalosa Sur Gold Project, Dominican Republic: Includes 20.0 Meters Grading 4.04 g/t Gold

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire - Jan. 11, 2012) - GoldQuest Mining Corp. (TSX VENTURE:GQC) (FRANKFURT:M1W) (BERLIN:M1W) ("GoldQuest" or the "Company") is pleased to announce assay results from the last seven holes drilled in their recently completed Q4 drilling program at its La Escandalosa Sur property, located in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. These seven holes reported are part of the ten mineralized holes drilled in December 2011 for a total of 1,070 meters. Assays of the first three holes of the program, were reported in a press release by the Company dated December 15th, 2011.

Drill results are located in the table below and all the holes were mineralized, ranging from 14.0 meters grading 5.34 g/t in hole LTP-070 and 20.0 meters grading 4.04 g/t gold in hole LTP-071 to 4.0 meters at 2.18 g/t in hole LTP-072.

HOLE_ID EASTING NORTHING ELEV_M DIP DEPTH_M From To Interval (m) Au (g/t) SECTOR
LTP-70 258597 2113945 1119 -90 105.16 46.00 60.00 14.00 5.34 LA ESCANDALOSA
88.00 94.00 6.00 1.40
LTP-71 258585 2114027 1102 -90 73.15 20.00 40.00 20.00 4.04 LA ESCANDALOSA

LTP-72 258619 2114068 1087 -90 114.34 64.00 68.00 4.00 1.51 LA ESCANDALOSA
96.00 100.00 4.00 2.18
LTP-73 258726 2114128 1082 -90 153.92 75.33 82.00 6.67 2.33 LA ESCANDALOSA
100.00 116.00 16.00 3.30
LTP-74 258736 2114077 1090 -90 124.97 70.00 88.00 18.00 1.01 LA ESCANDALOSA
98.00 110.00 12.00 0.83
LTP-75 258676 2114074 1125 -90 124.97 85.78 102.00 16.22 5.50 LA ESCANDALOSA
Include 88.00 99.68 11.68 7.51
LTP-76 258526 2113971 1092 -90 54.86 12.00 24.00 12.00 6.80 LA ESCANDALOSA

Julio Espaillat, Chief Executive Officer stated, "We are encouraged by the results of this drill program in which every hole was mineralized with gold. These results confirm our confidence in the gold potential of the 3.5 kilometers long high chargeability, low resistivity and low magnetic ground geophysical anomaly which has been drilled for less than one third of its length. It is the Company's intention that the geophysical anomalies will continue to be drilled in early 2012."

10 holes were drilled for a total of 1,070 meters. Samples from the altered and mineralized section intercepted from holes LPT-070 to LTP-076, were prepared at the ACME lab in Maimón and assayed at their laboratory in Chile. Goldquest Quality Assurance and Quality Contol QA/QC can be viewed on our website at:

http://goldquestcorp.com/corporate/corporate-governance.html

The program tested lateral extensions of the known La Escandalosa Sur mineralization and included confirmatory infill drilling of the same zone to increase knowledge and drill density of the deposit. The location of the drillholes can be found on our website at:

http://www.goldquestcorp.com/images/DrillHoles_NovDec2011_LE.JPG

GoldQuest's NI 43-101 compliant inferred resource at La Escandalosa Sur is 4.86 million tonnes grading 2.60 g/t gold (at 0.3 g/t gold cut off) and was posted on SEDAR on November 16, 2010. The Company has also completed a drilling program at the Hondo Valle mineralization, which is located 1,600 metres north of La Escandalosa Sur, where the best drill hole returned 29.00 metres grading 2.18 g/t gold (hole LTP-065, see press release dated May 16, 2011). The potential quantity and grade of the Hondo Valle mineralization is not the subject of a NI 43-101 compliant inferred resource, is conceptual in nature, there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource and the Company is uncertain if further exploration of the will result in the Hondo Valle mineralization being delineated as a mineral resource at this time. Both La Escandalosa Sur and Hondo Valle lie on the Zone A Induced Polarization (IP) anomaly which GoldQuest's geologists believe may be related to the gold occurrences in the district. La Escandalosa Sur extends 600 metres north to south in the central portion of Zone A, which extends in total for over 3.4 kilometres north to south.


About GoldQuest

GoldQuest is a Vancouver-based mineral exploration company with projects in Spain and the Dominican Republic, traded on the TSX-V under the symbol GQC.V and in Frankfurt/Berlin with symbol M1W with 103,508,601 shares outstanding and 112,066,851 fully diluted basis. The recent trading range has been C$0.07 to C$0.14.

The information in this press release has been approved by Mr. William Fisher, P. Geo., a qualified person for the technical information in this press release under NI 43-101 standards and the chairman and a director of GoldQuest Mining Corp.


On behalf of the Board of Directors,

Julio Espaillat
President & Chief Executive Officer



Forward-looking statements:

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Contact Information

GoldQuest Mining Corp.
Julio Espaillat
President & Chief Executive Officer
+1 809 385 2222
jespaillat@goldquestcorp.com

GoldQuest Mining Corp.
Sebastian de Kloet
Investor Relations - Toronto, Canada
+1-416-970-5277
investorrelations@goldquestcorp.com
www.goldquestcorp.com