Quest Minerals & Mining Opens Second Seam at Slater's Branch Mine.
Dec 14, 2004

BELFRY, Ky. -- Quest Minerals and Mining Corp. (OTCBB:QMMG), a Utah corporation, today announced its intention to re-open the Lower Cedar Grove seam by the end of February 2005. The Lower Cedar Grove seam is already permitted and bonded. Quest is responding to high market demand for coal with metallurgical properties.

Quest acquires and operates energy and mineral-related properties in eastern Kentucky, southwestern West Virginia, and western Virginia.

"The reserve estimate for this seam is in excess of 3,500,000 tons of coal in place," said William "Randy" Wheeler, CEO of Quest Minerals and Mining. "This coal has very high fluidity which makes it a perfect blending coal for metallurgical coal orders."

The Lower Cedar Grove seam should produce approximately 20,000 clean tons per month by the end of the second quarter of 2005. The current market price for washed Lower Cedar Grove coal is \$60 per ton FOB Delbarton West Virginia.

Quest is also continuing its core drilling program to refine coal reserve estimates on the Slater's Branch property. Current reserve estimates are more than 12,000,000 tons in place in six seams.

Further information about Quest Minerals and Mining can be found on the Web at: www.questminerals.com

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