MOUNT PEARL, NEWFOUNDLAND--(Marketwired - July 16, 2014) - Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. ("Cornerstone" or "the Company") (TSX VENTURE:CGP)(OTCBB:CTNXF)(FRANKFURT:GWN)(BERLIN:GWN) announces the following project update for the Stage 2 drilling program at the Alpala prospect within the Company's Cascabel copper-gold porphyry joint venture exploration project in northern Ecuador.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Drill hole CSD-14-007 ("Hole 7") intersected 597.26m grading 0.46 % copper and 0.18 g/t gold from 654m to 1251.26m depth, including:
  
  
  • 195.26m @ 0.67 % copper and 0.36 g/t gold from 1056m;
  • 91.26m @ 0.83% copper and 0.57 g/t gold from 1160m; and
  • 51.26m @ 1.05 % copper and 0.85 g/t gold from 1200m depth.
    
    
• Higher grade intervals are strengthening downward and are open at depth.
  
  
• Increasing copper sulphide mineralization commenced from 540.70m depth and extends beyond the current hole depth of 1339.76 metres (at 8 am EST on July 15^th).
  
  
• Broad zone of copper and gold mineralization discovered in Hole 7 correlates with the same zone in Hole 5 located 150 metres to the southeast.
  
  
• Hole 7 is being deepened to a minimum depth of 1500 metres with a reduced drill core size, and will drill beyond 1500m if in strong mineralization.
  
  
• Confirmation of copper and gold mineralization extending from Hole 5 to Hole 7 reinforces the potential of the adjacent targets.
  
  
• Target location for Hole 8 is currently being refined.
  
  

All reported intervals referred to in this news release are core lengths. At present the true thicknesses are uncertain due to the early stage of drilling.

References to figures and photographs related to the version of this release on the Company's website (www.cornerstoneresources.com) or visible in PDF format by clicking the link below:

http://www.cornerstoneresources.com/i/pdf/NR14-18Figures.pdf.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Hole 7 Progress

Hole 7 was at a depth of 1339.76 metres at 8 am EST on July 15^th. The hole was reduced from NQ to BQ diameter at 1251.30 depth to enable the hole to be deepened. Additional BQ rods purchased by the drill contractor from overseas have arrived on site and were mobilized to the drill rig. Drilling of Hole 7 recommenced on July 12^th.

The hole is continuing to intersect strong visible copper-sulphide mineralization. Mineralization that continues to be encountered in the hole comprises disseminated, stringer and vein-controlled, coarse grained chalcopyrite hosted by a strongly potassic-altered diorite intrusion (see photographic plates at above link).

To date, the hole has intersected visible copper sulphides from 540.70 metres depth to the current hole depth of 1339.76 metres, and yielding an interval of visible mineralization extending for almost 800 metres down hole. This extensive zone of visual copper sulphide mineralization is strengthening with depth, and this trend closely mimics the modeled increasing magnetic susceptibility (Figures 2 and 3).

The intersections encountered to date are listed in the Table below. Drilling is continuing to extend this high-grade zone at depth.

Hole ID		Depth From		Depth To		Interval (m)		Cu (%)		Au (g/t)		Comment
CSD-14-007		654		1251.26		597.26		0.46		0.18		Open at depth
Incls.		1056		1251.26		195.26		0.67		0.36		Open at depth
Incls.		1160		1251.26		91.26		0.83		0.57		Open at depth
Incls.		1200		1251.26		51.26		1.05		0.85		Open at Depth

A highly encouraging feature of the strongly mineralized zone that is currently being intersected in Hole 7 is the high abundance of associated hydrothermal magnetite, the magnetic mineral that is the source of the modeled magnetic anomaly in the Central Zone at Alpala. Thus the extensive modeled magnetic anomaly and its down-dip extension to the southwest (Figure 2), and its extensions portrayed in Figure 3, are robust targets for defining extensions to the mineralization already discovered in Holes 5 and 7.

Hole 7 is continuing to drill into the core of the modeled magnetic anomaly that coincides with the mineralized potassic alteration zone.

About Cascabel

SolGold Plc owns 85% of the equity of Exploraciones Novomining S.A. ("ENSA"), an Ecuadorean registered company that holds 100% of the Cascabel concession in northern Ecuador. Cornerstone owns the remaining 15% of ENSA, which also holds the rights to the La Encrucijada gold-silver project. SolGold is funding 100% of the exploration at Cascabel and is the operator of the project with Cornerstone Ecuador S.A. providing some exploration and administrative services. Cornerstone's 15% interest is financed through completion of a feasibility study.

Cascabel is located in north-western Ecuador in an under-explored northern section of the richly endowed Andean Copper Belt, 60 km northeast of the undeveloped inferred resource of 982 million tons at 0.89% Cu Junin copper project. (Mineralization identified at the Cu Junin copper project is not necessarily indicative of the mineralization on the Cascabel Property).

Qualified Person:

Yvan Crepeau, MBA, P.Geo., Cornerstone's Vice President, Exploration and a qualified person in accordance with National Instrument 43-101, is responsible for supervising the exploration program at the Cascabel project for Cornerstone and has reviewed and approved the information contained in this news release.

Logging, sampling and assaying

Holes referred to in this release were or are being drilled using HTW, NTW and NQ core sizes (respectively 7.1, 5.6 and 4.8 cm diameter). Geotechnical measurements such as core recovery, fracturing, rock quality designations (RQD's), specific density and photographic logging are performed systematically prior to assaying. The core is logged, magnetic susceptibility measured and key alteration minerals identified using an on-site portable spectrometer. Core is then sawed in half at Cornerstone's core logging facility and half of the core is delivered by Cornerstone employees for preparation at Acme Analytical Laboratories (ACME) affiliate laboratory in Cuenca. Core samples are prepared crushing 1 kg to 80% passing 2 mm (10 mesh), splitting 250 g and pulverizing to 85% passing 0.075 mm (200 mesh) (ACME code R200-250). Prepared samples are then shipped to ACME in Vancouver, Canada where samples are assayed for a multi-element suite (ACME code 1E, 0.25g split, 4-acid digestion, ICP-ES finish). Over limit results for Ag (> 100 g/t), Cu, Pb and Zn (each one > 1%) are systematically re-assayed (ACME code 7 TD1 or 7 TD2, 4-acid digestion, ICP-ES finish). Gold is assayed using a 30 g split, Fire Assay (FA) and AA or ICP-ES finish (ACME code G601).

Quality assurance / Quality control (QA/QC)

The ACME affiliate preparation facility in Cuenca was audited by Cornerstone prior to the start of the drilling program and ACME is an ISO 9001:2008 qualified assayer that performs and makes available internal assaying controls. Duplicates, certified blanks and standards are systematically used (1 control sample every 15 samples) as part of Cornerstone's QA/QC program. Rejects, a 100 g pulp for each core sample and the remaining half-core are stored for future use and controls.

About Cornerstone:

Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. is a well-funded mineral exploration company based in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, with a diversified portfolio of projects in Ecuador and Chile, and a strong technical team that has proven its ability to identify, acquire and advance properties of merit. The company's business model is based on generating exploration projects whose subsequent development is funded primarily through joint venture partnerships. Commitments from JV partners constitute significant validation of the strength of Cornerstone's projects.

Further information is available on Cornerstone's website: www.cornerstoneresources.com and on Twitter.

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On Behalf of the Board,

Brooke Macdonald, President and CEO

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