VANCOUVER, BC - Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd. (the "Company") (TSX Venture Exchange: GQ), is very pleased to announce the results of the recent geological mapping, pitting and sampling along the Djambaye 2 zone in the Kenieba concession, western Mali, West Africa. The initial phase of the program consisted of digging 24 pits along a 392 metre stretch of the north-south zone. Twenty-one of the pits were dug to a depth of 10 to 12 metres and sampled at the bottom. Pits 18, 23, and 24 were dug to a depth of 2 to 3 m. In the…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd. (the "Company") (TSX Venture Exchange: GQ), is very pleased to announce the results of geological mapping, soil sampling and pitting over a 400 x 1200 metre area along the Kabaya 1 zone, which is highly anomalous in gold and is located in the Kenieba concession, Mali, West Africa. Mapping has partly defined two 50 to 75+ metre wide diorite dikes separated by a 25 to 65 m wide zone of greenschist. The dikes strike 45°, although in the northeastern part of the area mapped, the northwestern dike appears to…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd. (the "Company") (TSX Venture Exchange: GQ), is very pleased to announce the results of geological mapping, soil sampling and pitting over a 400 x 1200 metre area along the Kabaya 1 zone, which is highly anomalous in gold and is located in the Kenieba concession, Mali, West Africa. Mapping has partly defined two 50 to 75+ metre wide diorite dikes separated by a 25 to 65 m wide zone of greenschist. The dikes strike 45°, although in the northeastern part of the area mapped, the northwestern dike appears to…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd., is very pleased to announce that the Company has been listed on the Berlin Bremen Stock Exchange. Berliner Freiverkehr (Aktien) AG, which is one of the largest German brokerage firms, act as the market maker for the Company on this exchange which they classify as an unofficial regulated market. The symbol of Great Quest on the Berlin Bremen Stock Exchange is GQM, and the German Cusip Number is CA3909121038. The advantages of trading Great Quest stock in Berlin are numerous. It allows an avenue for the Company to disseminate…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd., is pleased to announce the start of a pre-drilling program on the Kenieba concession, which is south of and adjacent to Nevsun's land package, covering the Tabakoto and Segala deposits in western Mali, West Africa. . The program includes soil sampling and geological mapping of the 7 km long Djambaye zone where the local miners (orpailleurs) have been digging pits in the search for and recovery of gold for 300 years. A one (1) sq km area along this zone was previously mapped and soil sampled with the result…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd., is pleased to announce the start of a pre-drilling program on the Kenieba concession, which is south of and adjacent to Nevsun's land package, covering the Tabakoto and Segala deposits in western Mali, West Africa. . The program includes soil sampling and geological mapping of the 7 km long Djambaye zone where the local miners (orpailleurs) have been digging pits in the search for and recovery of gold for 300 years. A one (1) sq km area along this zone was previously mapped and soil sampled with the result…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd., is reporting today on the final results from drill holes 18 through 22 of the 2003-04 diamond drill program on the Bourdala concessions in western Mali, West Africa. Hole DH 18-BR was drilled in the Bourdala Sud-Ouest zone to test for a northeasterly extension of the zone with intersections of 10 m of 3.92 g/t gold and 5 m of 8.63 g/t gold from DH 06-BR and 7.0 m of 5.00 g/t gold from DH 11-BR. Although DH 18-BR intersected a zone from 43.5 to 55.4 m similar…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd., is reporting today on the final results from drill holes 18 through 22 of the 2003-04 diamond drill program on the Bourdala concessions in western Mali, West Africa. Hole DH 18-BR was drilled in the Bourdala Sud-Ouest zone to test for a northeasterly extension of the zone with intersections of 10 m of 3.92 g/t gold and 5 m of 8.63 g/t gold from DH 06-BR and 7.0 m of 5.00 g/t gold from DH 11-BR. Although DH 18-BR intersected a zone from 43.5 to 55.4 m similar…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd. (the "Company") (TSXVenture Exchange: GQ) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the 10 sq. km Alamoutala Ouest concession. This concession, in Mali, West Africa, is strategically located between the block of concessions encompassing the Sadiola Gold Mine and the block of concessions encompassing the Yatela Gold Mine and is surrounded on three sides by the Yatela concessions. The Sadiola Mine occurs 10.3 km southeast of the Alamoutala Ouest concession; the Yatela mine occurs 9.1 kilometer northwest of the concession; and the Alamoutala deposit, with inferred resources of…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd. (the "Company") (TSX Venture Exchange: GQ) is pleased to announce the latest results from the diamond drill program on the Bourdala concessions in Mali, West Africa. Below are the results: -------------------------------------------------------- Drill Hole Interval (m) Width (m) Gold (g/t) -------------------------------------------------------- DH 15 NG 62.6 - 64.6 2.0 1.86 75.1 - 76.1 1.0 1.11 -------------------------------------------------------- DH 16 TD 9.8 - 11.4 1.6 1.91 49.4 - 50.4 1.0 4.27 56.3 - 57.8 1.5 1.01 -------------------------------------------------------- DH 17 TD 9.8 - 10.9 1.1 2.19 -------------------------------------------------------- DH-14-NG was spotted 58 m east of the section of pits with high grade gold and…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd. (the "Company") (TSX Venture Exchange: GQ) reports that with the price of copper up to US$1.30 from just US$0.70 a year and a half ago and with gold at US$410 from US$260 in March, 2001, the Taseko property, located 225 km north of Vancouver, B.C. once again becomes a very important asset of the Company. Great Quest owns 100% of the property, subject to a 2.5% net smelter royalty to $1.5 million. In 1989 to 1991 the Company, with the help of ASARCO Incorporated, established in situ resources of…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd. (the "Company") (TSX Venture Exchange GQ) is pleased to announce that Diamond Drill Hole 13-BR has been completed on the Bourdala Sud-Ouest zone and Drill Holes DDH-14-NG and DDH-15-NG have been completed on the Niaragui zone where the Company received some very high grade gold results on samples from pitting. The drilling is taking place within the Bourdala concessions, Mali, West Africa. The core is being split, and the samples will soon be sent to the lab. The Company expects to have results from these samples in a…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd. (the "Company") (TSX Venture Exchange GQ), is very pleased to announce the results of assays on the first 5 diamond drill holes located in the Bourdala Sud-Ouest zone, as well as the acquisition of an additional concession, Niaragui Nord, just north of the Niaragui concession which is part of the Bourdala concessions, Mali, West Africa. The results of drilling are as follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Direction Intervals Widths Assay Grams Hole Number Dip of Dip (Metres) (Metres) per Tonne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DDH 08 BR -60 110 71.0 - 74.0 3.0 1.81 117.0 - 119.1 2.1…

VANCOUVER, BC -- Willis W. Osborne, President of Great Quest Metals Ltd., announces that a total of five holes has been drilled on the Bourdala Sud-Ouest zone within the Bourdala concessions. The core has been split and the core samples are currently in transit to the assay lab in Bamako, Republic of Mali. Originally, 7 holes were planned for the Bourdala Sud-Ouest zone where Diamond Drill Hole 06 intersected 10 m of 3.92 g/t gold and 5 m of 8.63 g/t gold in 2002. Because of the recent exercise of 150,000 warrants at $0.45 for $67,500, the Company has decided to…