Fortress Minerals Corp.: Corporate Update

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 27, 2009) - Fortress Minerals Corp. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:FST) announces that it has granted an aggregate of 450,000 incentive stock options to certain officers, directors and other eligible employees of the Company. The options are exercisable, subject to vesting provisions, over a period of three years at a price of $0.42 per share, being the closing market price of the Company's shares on the TSX Venture Exchange on November 27, 2009.

The Company also announces the appointment of Mr. I. Rodrigo A. Romo as Corporate Secretary of the Company. Most recently, Mr. Romo was the in-house Securities and Corporate Paralegal for Quorum Management & Administrative Services Inc. ("Quorum"), a private company, which provides management, administrative, legal, geological and other services to a number publicly traded mineral exploration companies. Mr. Romo also acted as the Corporate Secretary for two of the Quorum group of companies, namely, Emgold Mining Corporation and ValGold Resources Ltd. Prior to joining Quorum, Mr. Romo was a Securities and Corporate Paralegal with the law firm of Lang Michener LLP.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

Lukas H. Lundin, President and CEO