Release: East Asia Minerals: Gold potential firming up at Abong prospect

(VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Apr 2, 2008) -- East Asia Minerals Corporation is pleased to report that its quick-paced drill campaign at the shallow dipping, near-surface Abong Jasperoid Prospect, Aceh Province, Indonesia, continues to produce gold-bearing intercepts in advance of a planned year-end resource estimate.

Assays have been received for diamond drill holes ABD-11 to ABD-25. This sequence of holes is highlighted by ABD-16 with 1.67 g/t gold over 9.0 metres, ABD-19 with 1.44 g/t gold over 14.0 metres, ABD-23 with 4.14 g/t gold over 11.0 metres, and ABD-25 with 3.08 g/t gold over 12.0 metres. The drill rig continues to make good progress with the campaign.

Resource stage exploration drilling remains focused along the 3 x 1.5 kilometre Abong Corridor, where epithermal gold mineralization is controlled by late-stage open space infilling within an extensive outcropping / sub-cropping jasperoid "blanket".

The mineralized jasperoid has been outlined for greater than 1,500 metres strike and up to 750 metres width, and is typically 10 to 15 metres thick. It remains open along the northwest-southeast strike direction, and across strike in the southwest-northeast direction

The Bintang and Fikri Prospects also remain priority targets where high-grade gold occurs laterally along basal surge tuff horizons within the gold-bearing jasperiod "blanket" and in breccia feeder zones that extend to depth (December 11, 2007 and January 14, 2008 news releases). These feeder zones will be drill tested for high-grade bonanza gold zones that are typical of epithermal gold environments.

East Asia Minerals is an Asian-based, Canadian mineral exploration company with uranium, gold and copper exploration properties in Mongolia and Indonesia. In Indonesia, it has a 70 to 85% interest in five advanced gold and gold-copper properties located in Aceh Province in Sumatra and North Sulawesi.(end of edited release)