Star Minerals Group Ltd. announced the signing of a Joint Venture Agreement between Star and a Canadian private company, to acquire a controlling interest of 60% ownership of the Hoidas Lake advanced rare earth project in northwestern Saskatchewan. In addition, the company announced the addition of Scott Newman and James Rogers to the management team. Mr. Newman will join the company's management team as Vice-President and Mr. Rogers will join the company's management team as Chief Operating Officer.

Mr. Newman is the president and founding partner of Axiom Exploration, a private oil and gas consulting firm based in Saskatoon. His 8 years of technical and management experience both in hard rock and soft rock brings a strong operational background to the team. Mr. Rogers has been directly involved in the resource exploration industry since 2007, bringing extensive corporate management and technical experience to the team.

He has worked both in a management and technical capacity with private and public companies throughout North and South America, and equatorial Africa.