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Polaris Starts Production at the Orca Quarry

February 20, 2007

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Polaris Minerals Corporation (TSX:PLS) today announced that production has commenced at the Orca Sand & Gravel Quarry, near Port McNeill, British Columbia.

Commissioning trials at the Orca Quarry have now demonstrated that the process plant supplied by Metso Minerals Canada Inc. has met the design performance criteria and consequently production has commenced to build product inventories. Customary fine tuning of the operation will be ongoing. Construction of the ship-loader is now virtually completed, in anticipation of the arrival of the first Panamax vessel, which is expected to transport Orca products to US markets, before the end of March 2007.

Herb Wilson, Polaris’ Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, said: “We have built, within budget and in only ten months, one of the largest and most modern sand and gravel plants in Canada, and the plant commissioning phase has now been substantially completed. This achievement is a credit to our suppliers, contractors and the team at Orca Quarry and is particularly remarkable considering the abnormally severe weather conditions experienced on the west coast during the past several months.”

Construction is also advancing well at the Richmond Terminal in California, where the complex foundation work has been completed.

To view recent images of the Orca Quarry, please visit the photo gallery on Polaris’ website at http://www.polarmin.com/orcasand/photogallery.php.

Polaris Minerals Corporation is exclusively focused on the development of quarries and the production of construction aggregates in British Columbia for marine transport to urban markets on the west coast of North America to meet growing local supply deficits.

For further information, please contact:
Marco Romero, President and CEO or
Mike Westerlund, Director, Corporate Development
Polaris Minerals Corporation
Tel: (604) 915-5000
Web site: www.polarmin.com
Email: info@polarmin.com

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