News Release

TSX Venture Symbol: GWG
USA OTC Symbol: GWMGF
CUSIP: 39141Y 10 3

April 18, 2007

Miron Shambban is Named as Vice President of
Great Western Technologies Inc.

Saskatoon, SK, Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - The Company is pleased to report that Mr. Miron Shamban will be joining Great Western Technologies Inc. as Vice President of Marketing and Technology. His addition to the staff in Troy Michigan will bring a level of expertise in the field of Rare Earth Materials that will accelerate the development of the processing technologies currently being implemented by GWTI.

Mr. Shamban is joining the team with over 14 years of experience in supplying industry with high tech solutions to needs for Rare Earth & Refractory Metals and Specialty Alloys. As the former President of Arris International Miron has established a world wide supply chain for specialty materials such as powders, foils, alloys and oxides. This added knowledge will enhance the type of projects currently being carried out at GWTI.

"The addition of Miron to our team brings us a new group of experts into our knowledge base for solving and providing solutions to users of Specialty and Designer Alloy products", says Mark L. Ellis President of GWTI. "We have now completed the strategic circle needed to have good contacts on a world wide basis. We had prior contacts within the Chinese and Indian markets, and now have an experienced insider for the Russian and European markets."

"The addition of Miron to the Troy staff fits in well with our mine-to-market business model involving strategic metals in North America", says Jim Engdahl, President of GWMG. "Many of the same technologies that use the rare earth elements, like we are developing at our Hoidas Lake project in Saskatchewan, have been developed within the areas that Miron has worked in for the last couple of decades and we feel we will profit from the experience he can bring to our team."

Great Western Minerals Group Ltd., is a Canadian based company exploring for, and developing, strategic metal resources in North America. Pursuing a vertically-integrated business model, the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary Great Western Technologies Inc., located in Troy, Michigan, produces a variety of specialty alloys for use in the battery, magnet, automotive and aerospace industries. These "designer" alloys include those containing nickel, cobalt and the rare earth elements.

Mark Ellis
President
Great Western Technologies Inc.

For further information contact Gord Dent at (306) 668-0701. All email inquiries should be made to info@gwmg.ca info@gwmg.ca (website: www.gwmg.ca ) Direct mail: Great Western Minerals Group Ltd., 226 Cardinal Crescent , Saskatoon , SK S7L 6H8

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