Champion Bear Provides Exploration Update and Plans for 2011

Champion Bear Resources Limited (TSX VENTURE:CBA) ("Champion Bear" or the
"Company") is pleased to provide an Exploration Update and plans for 2011 for
the Company's Dryden area precious metals projects located in northwestern
Ontario and for the Company's Sudbury area precious and base metal projects
located in northeastern Ontario, Canada. 


Richard Kantor, President of Champion Bear reported: "We are very pleased with
Champion Bear's portfolio of advanced stage precious metal projects in Ontario
and with the progress being made by our partners Wallbridge and Impala Platinum
on the Sudbury Joint Venture properties. Champion Bear is able to focus on
growing our Eagle Rock and the Plomp Farm projects, both of which have
considerable room for expansion and improved possibilities in light of advancing
metal prices. We look forward to extending the Campbell Zone copper-PGE
mineralization with continued positive drill results and developing robust drill
targets from the new Plomp Farm gold system model". 


Recently acquired digital data is being incorporated into the Company's data
base with the objective of refining and upgrading existing drill targets and
generating new targets based on the enhanced geological models. 


DRYDEN AREA PROJECTS

EAGLE ROCK (Cu - Pt - Pd - Au Sulphide)

The 100% owned Eagle Rock property is located 65 kilometres south of Dryden,
Ontario, and overlies the large Entwine Lake Intrusion which hosts several
sulphide showings including the Campbell Zone - a reef-like Cu-Au-Pt-Pd horizon
of good metal tenor consisting of up to 10% finely disseminated chalcopyrite and
pyrrhotite. Assay results from the 2009 Phase II drill program include: 2.19g/t
Pt+Pd+Au ("PGE") and 0.92% Cu+Ni over 5.0m within a 13.0m zone grading 1.70g/t
PGE and 0.69% Cu+Ni (see New Release dated May 5, 2009). The Campbell Zone
outcrops for approximately one kilometre and remains open to the northwest and
at depth where the potential of the mineralized system remains untested by
drilling below 200m from surface. Work plans are to complete a Phase III 2011
drill program with the objective of defining the nature and extent of the
mineralization in anticipation of an open pit resource estimation.


Ground geophysical surveys are planned for 2011 over other selected, undrilled
sulphide showings along the Campbell Zone trend. Survey areas will be chosen
based, in part, on the results of the 2005 Terraquest High Resolution
Aeromagnetic Survey ("HRAM"). An HRAM survey is being contemplated over the
large, virtually un-explored eastern portion of the Entwine Lake Intrusion to
assist with geological mapping and prospecting for additional surface sulphide
occurrences. 


PLOMP FARM (Au)

The 100% owned Plomp Farm property is located 20 kilometres west of Dryden,
Ontario and consists of two main blocks that overlie 13 kilometres of favourable
Thunder Lake assemblage stratigraphy. The advanced stage Main Zone hosts
mineralization within a broad corridor of gold enrichment. Higher grade zones
appear to occur as ore shoots, intersections include 7.84 g/t Au, 27 g/t Ag, and
0.11% Zn over 2.0 metres, 5.2 g/t Au, 25 g/t Ag, and 7.99% Zn over 1.5 metres
within an altered quartz-sercite schist (felsic volcanic), and others have
yielded values ranging from 3.4 to 34.9 g/t Au with greater than  0.27% Cu. A
new geological and geochemical model of the Main Zone gold system is currently
underway and is designed to identify the controls of mineralization and
associated favourable alteration prior to drill testing the new targets.


In July 2010, the Company completed reconnaissance mapping and sampling of the
mostly un-explored East Block claims. Field checks of EM conductors detected
during a 2001 government Airborne Geophysical Survey (MegaTEM system) identified
several gossans with anomalous gold, palladium and base metal values. Other
conductors were not exposed at surface and their conductive source remains
unknown. Work has been recommended to follow-up the evaluation with additional
field work including ground geophysical surveys in 2011. 


SUDBURY AREA PROJECTS (Cu - Ni - Pt - Pd - Au)

PARKIN OFFSET

Champion Bear's Parkin Offset properties cover 7.5 kilometers of the Parkin
Offset Dyke in Sudbury, Ontario and include the Brady Cu-Ni-PGE sulphide
showing. Offset dykes are part of the Sudbury Complex and are very attractive
exploration targets as demonstrated, for example, by the recent discoveries at
Victoria Mine by Quadra FNX and the 1500 Zone on the Parkin Offset Dyke by
Wallbridge. 


The Parkin Offset properties were optioned to Wallbridge Mining Company Limited
("Wallbridge") together with Wallbridge's joint venture partner Impala Platinum
Holdings Limited ("Impala"), the world's second largest primary platinum
producer. Wallbridge can earn a 50% interest in Champion Bear's blocks of claims
by spending $2 million by August 19, 2011. To date, Wallbridge has completed
approximately $1.2 million in exploration expenditures. Wallbridge may then
increase its interest in the property to 75% by completing a definitive
feasibility study on a deposit, which is in whole or in part on the property and
funding Champion Bear's portion of development expenditures as a loan against
Champion Bear's portion of the proceeds of production. (See Champion Bear press
release dated September 22, 2008). 


The 2010 drilling program on Champion Bear's Brady property by operator
Wallbridge has been completed. Three holes totalling 2,543 metres tested both
shallow and deeper geophysical targets generated as part of the 2009 program.
Disseminated sulphide mineralization was intersected in one hole and anomalous
gold values were returned over 18 metres including an individual assay returning
44.01 g/t Au over 1.40 metres. Additional borehole surveying and target
generation is planned.


 The Joint Venture partners are currently formulating the 2011 work plan which
may include additional drilling and geophysical surveys on Champion Bear
property located in close proximity to Wallbridge's new 1500 Zone Discovery
where drill intersections include 8.00 g/t Pt+Pd+Au, 2.57 % Cu and 0.78 % Ni
over 14.24 meters. Wallbridge continues to extend the 1500 Zone with recently
announced drill results of 2.11 g/t Pt+Pd+Au, 1.05% Cu and 0.72% Ni over 8.00
metres (see Wallbridge Press Release dated November 25, 2010). 


NORTH RANGE Projects

The Iron Mask, Hess JV, and Ermatinger JV properties cover in excess of 20
kilometres of the Hess and Ministic Offset Dykes in the North Range footwall of
the Sudbury Complex. Wallbridge is the joint venture operator of the Hess and
Ermatinger properties and have concluded the 2010 exploration programs. Field
work has been successful at identifying the trace of the Hess and Ministic Dykes
for several kilometres in areas of poorly exposed bedrock. The 2011 exploration
program on the Hess Joint Venture includes a ground electromagnetic ("EM")
geophysical survey along the 14 kilometre strike length of the Hess Offset Dyke.
Line cutting is underway and the 70 line kilometre EM survey is scheduled for
January and February 2011. A follow-up program is planned and includes ground
checks of EM anomalies and drill testing of the best targets generated. This
program offers greenfield exploration opportunities to discover surface massive
sulphide occurrences in a most favourable geological setting. 


The Qualified Person responsible for the technical content of this press release
is Rob Foy, P. Geo., a qualified person as defined by National Instrument
43-101, of Foy Geological Services, Champion Bear's consulting geologist.


About Champion Bear

Champion Bear is a mineral exploration company focused exclusively on the
historically prospective regions of Ontario. Champion Bear's primary target is
platinum group and precious metals and to a lesser extent polymetallic base
metal and pegmatite-hosted tantalum deposits. Champion Bear's aim is to create
shareholder value through selective property acquisition and joint venture
followed by focused exploration emphasizing drilling. The Company has assembled
a large land position in the Dryden and Sudbury areas, totaling over 24,000
hectares.


This news release contains forward-looking statements concerning the timing and
composition of the surveying, sampling, prospecting, mapping, drilling and
exploration programs to be completed on certain of Champion Bear's mineral
properties which are based on Champion Bear's current internal expectations,
which may prove to be incorrect. These statements are not a guarantee of future
performance and undue reliance should not be placed on them. Such
forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks and
uncertainties that are common to junior mineral exploration companies. These
risks and uncertainties include, among other things, Champion Bear's need for
additional funding to continue its exploration efforts, changes in general
economic, market and business conditions; and competition for, among other
things, capital and skilled personnel. The Company undertakes no obligation to
update or revise any forward-looking statements except as expressly required by
applicable securities laws.
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