Release: Oropa: More gold discovered at Sambung

(July 03, 2006) - Oropa is pleased to announce further drilling success at its Sambung prospect. Sambung is located in the North Block of the Company?s 75% owned North Sumatran Pungkut Project, approximately 2 km from the Sihayo 1 North 610,000 Oz Au Inferred Resource.

Diamond drilling intersected the following:
? SAMDD020: 8m @ 1.52g/t Au from 4m (Including 2m @ 3.25g/t Au from 4m and 2m @2.18g/t Au from 10m)
? SAMDD021: 11m @ 2.3g/t Au from 10m
? SAMDD022: 22.05m @ 5.86g/t Au from 1m (Including 3m @ 18.7g/t Au from 6m)

The current drill programme is testing geological targets and anomalous gold values encountered in trenching completed earlier this year. To date, recent drilling has identified gold mineralisation over a 400m strike length, with a further 500 strike metres of anomalous trenching yet to be tested

Gold mineralisation in drill hole SAMDD020 is largely colluvial in nature and confirms results in earlier test pitting and trenching.

Drill hole SAMDD021 encountered mineralisation in both colluvium and primary jasperoid as did drill hole SAMDD022.

The Company is now focusing both of its drill, rigs on delineating the primary zones of mineralisation at Sambung. (end of release)