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Re: News Releases - Tuesday, July 08, 2008
East Asia Minerals Appoints Royle as VP Exploration & Business
Development
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For Immediate release, July 8, 2008 TSXV: EAS
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Tuesday, July 8, 2008 -- East Asia Minerals
Corporation (TSXV-EAS) is pleased to announce the addition of Mr. David
Z. Royle to the East Asia Minerals' Team as Vice President, Exploration
and Business Development, effective immediately.
David Royle, (FAusIMM, CPGeo) is an exploration geologist with 33 years
of international experience in all aspects of mineral exploration,
project evaluation and feasibility. Mr. Royle has had regional
responsibility for corporate exploration programs with portfolios
targeting mainly gold and copper. He has a proven track record having
played key roles in the grassroots discovery of significant mineral
deposits in the Pacific Rim including Tolukuma, PNG (gold), Cerro
Negro,
Argentina (gold), Rio Blanco, Peru (copper-molybdenum), and
Pierina, Peru (gold-silver), as well as at the Telfer alluvials in
Western Australia (gold).
During the past 20 years Mr. Royle has held senior management positions
with multinational resource companies. These include Managing
Director, Kentor Gold Ltd.; General Manager Project Generation, MIM
Exploration Pty Ltd.; General Manager Exploration, Latin America, MIM
International Pty Ltd.; and Exploration Manager Americas, Newcrest
Mining Ltd. Mr. Royle is a Fellow and Chartered Professional Geologist
of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FAusIMM) and a
Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists. He holds a Bachelor of
Science (Honours) degree in Geology from University of New England,
Armidale, NSW.
In his role as Vice President, Exploration and Business Development,
Mr. Royle will be responsible for oversight of project generation,
acquisition and development throughout the Company. His experience
will be instrumental in furthering the Company's success.
About East Asia Minerals Corporation
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, North Sumatra, and Sangihe Island,
North Sulawesi. Two of these, the Barisan 1 (Abong) and Sangihe
(Binebase-Bawone) gold projects, are being drilled to define NI43-101
compliant resources. The Company owns ten uranium properties,
including the advanced Ingiin-Nars, Ulaan Nuur and Enger uranium
projects, and a 75% interest in the Khok Adar copper oxide discovery in
Mongolia. East Asia currently has 55,645,372 shares outstanding. Its
shares are listed for trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the
symbol "EAS".
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, visit the Company's website at
www.EAminerals.com, or contact:
Michael Hawkins, President and CEO
Vancouver
T: +1-778-997-2183
E: Hawkins@EAminerals.com
or
Nick Kohlmann, Corporate Communications
Toronto
T: +1-416-792-8734
E: Kohlmann@EAminerals.com
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Copyright (c) 2008 EAST ASIA MINERALS CORPORATION (EAM) All rights
reserved. For more information visit our website at
http://www.eaminerals.com/ or send mailto:info@eaminerals.com
Message sent on Tue Jul 8, 2008 at 7:58:55 AM Pacific Time
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