Duane and Morgan Poliquin Awarded the AME BC Colin Spence Award for Excellence in Global Mineral Exploration

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - January 28, 2015) - Almaden Minerals Ltd. (TSX: AMM) (NYSE MKT: AAU) is pleased to announce that Duane and Morgan Poliquin were formally presented with the 2014 Colin Spence Award at last night's Celebration of Excellence Gala hosted by The Association for Mineral Exploration, British Columbia (AME-BC). The Colin Spence Award recognizes excellence in global mineral exploration.

Quoting from the AME-BC news release dated December 9, 2014: 

"Duane and Morgan Poliquin are the recipients of the Colin Spence Award for excellence in global mineral exploration. This father and son team is being recognized particularly for its roles in the recent discovery and advancement of the Ixtaca gold-silver deposit for Almaden Minerals Ltd. at its Tuligtic property in eastern Mexico. This is one of the most significant greenfield discoveries of recent times, following several years of diligent research and exploration efforts focused on an under-explored area."

President and CEO and co-recipient Morgan Poliquin said: "It is an honour to receive this level of peer recognition and a great privilege to share this award with Almaden's Chairman who is a mentor to the entire Almaden team."

Previous recipients of the award include; Ross J. Beaty, Roman Shklanka, Charles Forster, Mark Rebagliati, The Rubicon Team (David Adamson, Mathew Wunder, Ian Russell, Terry Bursey, Crystal McCullough), Jeff Pontius and the International Tower Hill Team, Alistair McCready and Dr. Michael Gunning, and Ben and Garrett Ainsworth.

About Almaden

Almaden is a well-financed mineral exploration company working in North America. The company is actively developing its 100% owned Ixtaca gold-silver deposit in Mexico. The Company has assembled mineral exploration projects in Canada, United States and Mexico, including the Ixtaca deposit through its past grass roots exploration efforts. Uniquely, the Company has pioneered a new geologic and mineral district in Eastern Mexico through conceptual science-driven exploration. This resulted in the acquisition through staking of a portfolio of early stage exploration properties, each of which represent exiting opportunities for the potential discovery of significant gold, silver and copper deposits as evidenced at Ixtaca. Since going public in 1986, Almaden's business model has been to find, acquire and develop mineral projects in partnership with other mining enterprises with a willingness to fund tenure payments and exploration expenditures, which limits Almaden's share dilution. The Company has expanded this business model, described by some as prospect generation, by more aggressively advancing and developing its projects towards production, including the Ixtaca deposit.

On Behalf of the Board of Directors

"Morgan Poliquin" 
Morgan J. Poliquin, Ph.D., P.Eng.
President, CEO and Director
Almaden Minerals Ltd.

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