East Asia Minerals extends high-grade South Miwah bluff gold discovery

Vancouver-based explorer East Asia Minerals Corporation reported Tuesday that mapping/sampling along the recently discovered South Miwah Bluff Gold Zone at the Company's flagship Miwah Gold Project in Aceh Province continues to extend the strike length of the high-grade gold-bearing feeder structures.

The Company also announces that drilling is progressing well to test along the full strike length of the main Miwah Gold Zone, with initial assays anticipated over the next weeks. This campaign will now include scout drilling of the new South Miwah Bluff Gold Zone.

Results have been received for an additional 112 rock sawn and chip channel samples from South Miwah Bluff. These include 24.73 g/t gold over 6.3 metres, 20.05 g/t gold over 2.2 metres, 6.15 g/t gold over 3.1 metres and 5.19 g/t gold over 2.0 metres from rock sawn channel samples extending the recently reported high-grade structure (83.59 g/t gold over 24 metres) another 75 metres to the south.

The Miwah Gold Prospect was partially defined by approximately 3,000 metres of drilling in eleven holes by a previous explorer in 1997. All holes drilled during this program intersected significant alteration and mineralization with intercepts including 71 metres of 1.4 g/t gold and 58 metres of 1.1 g/t gold. The previous explorer suggested potential for 100 Mt at 1.1 to 1.2 g/t gold, however a review of the historical data indicates that early drilling was parallel to higher grade (greater than 5 g/t gold) structures at surface. Hence, in addition to greater mineralized tonnage, significantly higher overall grades are anticipated from better geological understanding, results of the Company's detailed sampling, and properly oriented drill holes.

East Asia Minerals is an Asian-based, Canadian mineral exploration company with gold and copper exploration properties in Indonesia, and uranium exploration properties in Mongolia. In Indonesia the Company has a 70 to 85% interest in six advanced gold and gold-copper properties located in Aceh Province, Sumatra, and Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi. Two of these, the Sangihe (Binebase-Bawone) and Barisan 1 (Abong) gold projects, are being advanced to define NI43-101 compliant resources.(alex)