Release: Southern Arc: Additional phase two drilling results from Lemonga Gold Prospect

VANCOUVER, May 8, 2006 - Southern Arc Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce that the company has received assay results from a further five diamond drill holes of its phase two drilling program at the Lemonga Prospect located on Sumbawa Island, Indonesia.

All holes were drilled at right angles to the strike of the veins and/or interpreted resistivity zones at -45 degrees inclinations.

Highlights of drill hole intercepts returned:

Drill hole LDG-35
1.70 m @ 10.01 g/t Au & 32 g/t Ag from 127.55 m

Drill hole LDG-36
0.60 m @ 2.02 g/t Au & 49 g/t Ag from 28.80 m
1.05 m @ 11.87 g/t Au & 185 g/t Ag from 52.00 m
0.75 m @ 8.91 g/t Au & 33 g/t Ag from 117.40 m
0.40 m @ 3.98 g/t Au & 3 g/t Ag from 184.25 m
0.55 m @ 2.50 g/t Au & 3 g/t Ag from 217.95 m

Drill hole LDG-37
0.90 m @ 1.34 g/t Au & 39 g/t Ag from 36.50 m

Drill hole LDG-38
4.20 m @ 6.20 g/t Au & 12 g/t Ag from 63.20 m
1.25 m @ 1.59 g/t Au & 39 g/t Ag from 82.95 m

Drill hole LDG-39
4.0 m @ 0.64 g/t Au & 262 g/t Ag from 81.90 m
(including 2.0 m @ 1.06 g/t Au & 379 g/t Ag)

The Lemonga Prospect is a low-sulfidation epithermal quartz vein system over which surface mapping by Southern Arc has confirmed argillic alteration dominant within an hydrothermal upflow area approximately 1 km east-west by 1.5 km north-south. Five auriferous quartz vein targets, named Amy, Betty, Cici, Dessy and Evi, have been identified within the alteration zone. The best exposed vein, the Amy Vein, has a mapped strike extent of at least 950 meters. (end of release)

SOURCE: Southern Arc Minerals Inc.