VANCOUVER, B.C. – Quaterra Resources and 50% joint-venture partner Blackberry Ventures 1, LLC, today announced assay results from 16 core holes totaling 5,388.8 meters completed during the fourth quarter of 2007 at their Nieves silver property in northern Zacatecas, Mexico. The program was successful in extending the Concordia high-grade silver vein mineralization and intersected significant new mineralization in the adjacent Arroyo fault, which may be a new mineralized structure or host the faulted extension of the Concordia vein.

Concordia vein: Twelve holes tested the Concordia vein system, one of three east-west striking veins systems on the Nieves property. The best mineralized interval is in hole QTA-48 with 47.48 meters averaging 142 g/t silver, 0.13 g/t gold, 0.37% lead and 0.37% zinc, including a 4.67 meter interval with 777 g/t silver (22.7 oz/ton), 0.53 g/t gold, 2.45% lead and 2.20% zinc. Hole QTA-53 cut the highest grade intercept with a 1.22 meter interval averaging 1.8 kg/t silver (52.6 oz/ton), 0.32 g/t gold, 2.06% lead and 0.69% zinc.

Arroyo fault: Hole QTA-55 was collared 120 meters northeast of hole QTA- 48 and tested the junction of the Concordia vein with the Arroyo fault. The mineralized intercept starts at 62 meters and includes 37.6 meters of 108 g/t silver, 0.15 g/t Au, 0.10% Pb and 0.14% Zn. Within this zone is a 3.3 meter interval that averages 331 g/t silver (9.6 oz/ton), 0.29 g/t gold, 0.17% lead and 0.28% zinc. Mineralization consists of sheeted veinlets, and because of its shallow depth and relatively uniform grade has open pit potential. The Arroyo vein-fault system appears to strike northwest with a moderate southwest dip. Additional drilling will be necessary to determine the extent and significance of this mineralization.

Other areas: Hole QTA-56 along the Santa Rita vein did not intersect significant mineralization. Wildcat holes at two new targets, the Cerro Arenisco and Jasperoide Grande prospects, holes QTA-57 and QTA-58 respectively, contained no significant values.

Discussion of results: The significance of the new Arroyo fault mineralization is unclear. The fault separates the Concordia and San Gregorio vein systems with about 50 meters of offset between these two structures. Although it is only weakly mineralized in outcrop, the Arroyo fault-vein could be part of a series of semi-circular faults that dip inward towards a buried intrusive stock. The stock appears as a magnetic low on the regional aeromagnetic map. The circular faults are interpreted to be possible feeder vents for the mineralization in the California, Concordia and San Gregorio veins. The Arroyo fault-hosted mineralization is open to both the northwest and southwest, as well as down-dip. There are similarly oriented faults with hydrothermal alteration further east along the east end of the San Gregorio vein, and at the Rosario prospect three kilometers to the southeast along the projection of the Arroyo and Gregorio faults. The Mojada vein may also be a circular vein. If the Arroyo fault system is in fact a new mineralized structure, it is totally untested, mostly covered with alluvium, and the two parallel Gregorio faults also may be mineralized.

The Concordia vein hosts moderate- to high-grade silver-gold-lead-zinc mineralization at shallow levels proximal to its intercept with the Arroyo fault. The best mineralized segment of the vein currently extends for at least 400 meters along strike and over a vertical distance of 300 meters. It has a gentle rake to the southwest where it remains open.

Says Jorge Guerrero, Quaterra’s Nieves Project Manager: “Excellent potential exists to expand the high-grade silver mineralization in the Concordia-San Gregorio vein systems close to the Arroyo fault. The intersection of the Arroyo fault and other parallel structures with the other known veins on the property present attractive untested drill-targets for both bulk-mineable and high-grade silver mineralization.”

An exploration model map illustrating all of these features is posted on the Quaterra website. A table of drill-hole results is attached to this news release and posted on the Company’s website.

2008 exploration plan: A geologic mapping survey of the California and Santa Rita vein systems and the more remote parts of the Nieves concession is underway. The Rosario area will also be remapped with attention given to northwest-striking structures. This work will be followed by additional core drilling later this year, concentrating on the Concordia-Arroyo-San Gregorio vein systems and their junctions. Any new prospects identified by the mapping survey will also be tested. All work plans are made in consultation with the US-based Blackberry Ventures 1, LLC, investment partnership, which will continue to pay its share of all ongoing exploration costs.

Core samples were prepped and analyzed by ALS Chemex in Guadalajara, Mexico and Vancouver, B.C. respectively. Samples were initially run using a conventional 35 element ICP analysis with an aqua regia digestion process. A 30 gram fire assay with gravimetric finish was run on all samples for gold and silver. Samples containing more than 1% lead, copper or zinc were analyzed using AA with aqua regia digestion. The azimuth for all holes is 340 degrees except QTA-58 which is 40 degrees. The dip for all holes is -60 degrees except for QTA-43 which is -62 degrees.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,
“Thomas Patton”
Thomas Patton, President, Quaterra Resources Inc.

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Click here for Nieves Silver Project Drill Hole Intercepts: March 2008
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