VANCOUVER, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Search Minerals Inc. (“Search” or the “Company”) (TSXV: SMY) announces that it has granted incentive stock options to certain
directors, officers and consultants of the Company for the purchase of
an aggregate of 1,330,000 common shares of the Company for a period of
five years at a price of $0.20 per share. These options have been
granted pursuant to the Company’s Stock Option Plan.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider
(as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange)
accepts responsibility of the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

About Search Minerals

Search Minerals Inc. (TSXV:SMY) is a TSX Venture Exchange listed
company, headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. Search is the discoverer of
the Port Hope Simpson REE District, a highly prospective light and
heavy REE belt located in southeast Labrador where the company controls
a dominant land position in a belt 135km long and up to 12km wide. In
addition, Search has a number of other mineral prospects in its
portfolio located in Newfoundland and Labrador, including a number of
claims in the Strange Lake Complex, where Quest Rare Minerals has an
earn-in agreement with the Company; and at the Red Wine Complex, where
Great Western Minerals Group has a Joint Venture with the Company.

Furthermore, Search Minerals is the owner of patents relating to the
Starved Acid Leaching Technology (“SALT”), a process with the potential
to economically recover nickel and cobalt from known deposits currently
considered sub economic.

Search Minerals is led by a management team and Board of Directors with
a proven track record in the mining industry. The Company has
experienced geological and metallurgical teams led by Dr. Randy Miller
and Dr. David Dreisinger respectively. All material information on the
Company may be found on its website at www.searchminerals.ca and on SEDAR at sedar.com.

Cautionary Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements that are not
historical facts. Forward-looking statements involve risks,
uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results,
performance, prospects, and opportunities to differ materially from
those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors
that could cause actual results to differ materially from these
forward-looking statements include those risks set out in Search’s
public documents filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Although Search believes that the assumptions and factors used in
preparing the forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance
should not be placed on these statements, which only apply as of the
date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such
events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. Except where
required by law, Search disclaims any intention or obligation to update
or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.

SOURCE Search Minerals Inc.