Capella Resources Updates Drill Results on its Lajitas Project in Chile

Vancouver, B.C., May 11, 2010 ? CAPELLA RESOURCES LTD. (TSX-V: KPS) (?Capella? or the ?Company?) is pleased to announce assay results on its final five drill holes of 2009-2010 drill season from its 100% owned Lajitas Project in Chile. Continuous gold mineralization of 170 meters @ 0.56 grams per metric ton (?g/t?) gold and 178 meters @ 0.49 g/t gold were encounter in drill holes LJ10024r and LJ10027r, respectively (Table 1).  

LJ10024r was drilled on the southwest corner of the Lajitas gold zone 50 meters south of drill hole LJ10021r (highlighted in a News Release dated March 16, 2010).  LJ10027r was drilled on the southeast side of the Lajitas gold zone 100 meters northeast of LJ10022r (highlighted in a News Release dated March 16, 2010).

LJ10023r tested a magnetic anomaly 400 meters to the west of the Lajitas zone, but unfortunately the drill hole encountered problems and was not completed to the target depth of 300 meters.  LJ10026r was drilled 400 meters to the east of the Lajitas zone encountering weak gold mineralization.  The upper portion of LJ10024r was drilled in a post mineral intrusive dike penetrating into mineralized diorite porphyry at 224 meters.

Table 1: Detailed drilling results from this press release are summarized as follows:

Intercepts not calculated using a gold cut-off.

The Lajitas gold zone has been extended during the 2009-2010 field season to approximately 275 meters from north to south, 300 meters from east to west, and to a vertical depth of 250 meters.  This season?s drill program was completed in early April 2010. The gold mineralization noted in this release is hosted in altered diorite porphyry.

Brian Cole, P. Geo., has reviewed the technical disclosure contained in this news release and is a Qualified Person within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 ? Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. The reader is directed to the Company?s website at www.capellaresources.com where a presentation on the Lajitas gold project provides additional information regarding this release.

About Capella Resources Ltd.

Capella Resources Ltd. is a publicly traded, junior exploration and mineral development company with a strong portfolio of precious and base metal projects in Chile, USA and Atlantic Canada.  The Company has a 100% interest in the Lajitas and Nevada gold-copper properties located in the Maricunga Gold and Copper District and approximately 700 kilometres northwest of Santiago, Chile.  The properties comprise ten exploration claims and six exploitation claims totalling a cumulative 3,500 hectares in area.  The Company holds a 100% interest in the Tinton Gold Project located 15 kilometres west-northwest of the famous and historic Homestake Mine in the Black Hills at Lead, South Dakota.  The Tinton property consists of 1,270 hectares contained in 157 unpatented mining claims.

The Company also holds 3839 mineral exploration claims covering an aggregate land area of over 71,558 hectares in Atlantic Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador).

CAPELLA RESOURCES LTD.
per: ?Richard Bachman?

Richard Bachman, Chief Executive Officer, President & Chief Geological Officer

For further information, please contact:
Capella Resources Ltd.
Graham Johnstone

1-778-331-2023

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