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African Metals Corp.: Operations Update

VANCOUVER, BC – Klaus Eckhof, the President of African Metals Corporation (TSX Venture Exchange: AFR) is pleased to announce that further to the previous press release announcing 4 geochemical anomalies of substantial size outlined by a soil sampling survey in 2007, a second round of geochemical sampling will commence in mid July on all eight of the Licences held by AFR in the Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

An extensive soil sampling program in late 2007 resulted in the delineation of two copper and manganese anomalies of approximately 1,200 metres length by 800 metres width and two copper and cobalt anomalies of approximately 1,000 metres length by 400 metres width within two of its licence areas in the DRC. Several other single point cobalt anomalies were also identifed, but required follow up work to define their potential size. The anomalies are interpreted as being hosted by sediments of the Roan Group known to host numerous world class copper cobalt mines.

Field investigation of the anomalies in May 2008 confirmed the leached nature of the soils covered by the 2007 sampling and the development of a lateritic profile in considerably flat terrain. The degree of laterite development ranges from weak to strongly developed with a siliceous, gossanous appearance. The geomorphology and leached environment are significant, as the low tenor of the copper and cobalt soil anomalies defined by the 2007 sampling, may reflect potentially sizeable underlying mineralisation masked by the weathering profile.

The four large soil anomalies and single point anomalies are being further investigated by an infill soil sampling program of some 1,012 samples. The results of the sampling will define the extent of the anomalies and delineate follow-up trenching and pitting programs.

A small artisanal mining operation extracting malachite mineralization was noted 2km west of Licence PR5145 in August 2007. The operations involved 10 local entrepreneurs mining ore by manual methods. A recent visit revealed that the operations now involved greater than 900 people, extracting ore using mechanized machinery with the pits extending to the southeast towards the licence boundary.

African Metals has a further six licences in the Katanga Province, located collectively approximately 60 kilometres northeast of Lubumbashi, the regional centre for the Province.

A first pass regional scale soil sampling program to cover the interpreted structural and lithologic trends of Roan Formation and Basal Conglomerates will commence in late June. Rock chip sampling and geological mapping will be conducted in conjunction with the soil sampling.

Recent field geological investigations have confirmed outcropping pyritic dolomitic siltstones of the Rand Formation and Rand Conglomerate over a 4,000m strike length in License PR5146. The units will be tested by the forthcoming soil sampling programs.

AFR has purchased Landsat imagery which is currently being interpreted to allow targeting of potentially hidden mineralized zones within the licence areas. The interpretation is expected to be available in mid July, to enable field investigations of anomalies whilst geochemical sampling is occurring.

Figure 1: Soil Sample Anomalies and Target areas in Licenses PR5144 & PR5145. Note 1012 follow up soil samples (red triangles) and Artisanal Copper workings.

Please find the picture about Figure 1 under the following link: http://www.irw-press.com/dokumente/African_110708.pdf

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF AFRICAN METALS CORPORATION

“Klaus Eckhof”

Klaus Eckhof
President

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