East Asia Minerals expands Miwah gold zone and discovers satellite zone

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Wednesday, October 22, 2008 -- East Asia Minerals Corporation continues to encounter significant gold intercepts from trench sampling at its Miwah Gold Project located in Aceh Province, North Sumatra, Indonesia. These results, including 6 metres of 6.67 g/t gold, 12 metres of 2.14 g/t gold, 12 metres of 3.16 g/t gold and 34 metres of 1.81 g/t gold, are from the eastern half of the Miwah Bluff area and from the Block M area to the east, which have a contiguous strike length of over 1000 metres. A new zone of mineralization has also been discovered 2.2 kilometres northeast of the Miwah Gold Zone.

Miwah Trenching Update
Additional encouraging assay results have been received from channel sampling in trenches at the Miwah Gold Zone (view map at www.EAminerals.com). Rock sawn channel sampling focused on the eastern side of Miwah Bluff returned consistently strong gold mineralization, hosted specifically in vuggy silica altered breccias and volcanic rock. Selected un-cut composite trench intervals include:
? 6 metres of 6.67 g/t gold (Trench 78)
? 8 metres of 1.14 g/t gold (Trench 81)
? 12 metres of 2.14 g/t gold (Trench 86)
? 18 metres of 0.98 g/t gold (Trench 87)

The first batch of assays for chip channel sampling at Block M, located 300 metres east of Miwah Bluff, have also returned encouraging gold intervals, specifically related to vuggy to massive silica ledges. These features were sampled along the approximate base of the sub-horizontal silica cap. Large sections of the impressive, plus 150 metres high by 500 metres long, near vertical silica wall above the surveyed area remain un-sampled. Selected un-cut composite trench intervals include:
? 12 metres of 3.16 g/t gold (Trench MB7);
? 34 metres of 1.81 g/t gold (Trench MB17);
? 14 metres of 1.16 g/t gold (Trench MB19);
? 6 metres of 1.10 g/t gold (Trench MB21);
? 40 metres of 1.15 g/t gold (Trench MB42);

Discovery of New Satellite Zone
Recent reconnaissance prospecting 2.2 kilometres northeast of the Miwah Gold Zone has discovered two new areas of high sulphidation alteration and mineralization within an area measuring 1000 metres by 1000 metres, which is about the same size as the Miwah Gold Zone. Initial confirmation sampling and assaying is currently underway.

Project Background
Extensive surface channel sampling by EAS and a previous explorer shows that Miwah Gold Zone mineralization occurs within a well defined zone of high sulphidation alteration measuring 1000 metres by 1000 metres. Better gold mineralization is closely related to a well-defined body of residual vuggy silica-sulphide forming an impressive resistant, east-northeast trending cliff of massive (vuggy) silica traced for over 1000 metres along strike by over 300 metres wide and up to 200 metres high.

Miwah demonstrates many features of the shallow part of a high-level high sulphidation ("HS") epithermal gold system, including intense acid leaching, strong structural and lithological permeability controls to fracture fed mineralizing fluids, presence of structurally-controlled hydrothermal and phreatic breccias, disseminated mineralization of gold-silver much greater than copper, and the elemental association of As, Sb, Bi, Ba, S and Te. (end of edited release)