High Grades in Certej Infill Drilling

16 May 2007 - European Goldfields Limited (TSX / AIM: EGU) (the "Company" or "European Goldfields") is pleased to announce that significant drilling intercepts have been encountered at its 80%-owned Certej project in Romania.

The existing Certej reserve contains 27.7M tonnes of probable reserves grading 2 g/t gold and 11.6 g/t silver, representing 1.76Moz of gold and 10.4Moz of silver. In March 2007, European Goldfields submitted a technical feasibility study to the Romanian government in support of its permit application to develop the Certej project.  Work is now progressing well on an environmental impact study, which is due for completion in Q3 2007.

In April 2007, European Goldfields initiated a 1500m diamond drilling campaign on the Certej deposit in Romania.  The drilling programme is designed to convert inferred resources within the current pit design to the indicated category.  To date results have been received for 11 of the planned 16 holes and significant intercepts are as follows:

Results are quoted using a 1 g/t Au lower cut-off grade, no upper grade cut was applied and include a maximum of 5 metres consecutive internal waste.  Only intercepts ≥ 1.5 g/t Au are reported. The Certej deposit is irregular in nature, however drilling has been conducted perpendicular to mineralization wherever possible and as such drilled width correspond to true widths.

High gold grade drill intercepts from the southern flank of the West Zone represent a zone of intense potassic and variably silica altered andesite which trends southwest and is open along strike and down dip.  Further holes are now being planned in order to test the strike and dip extents of this extension to the modelled mineralisation. 

Commenting on the announcement, David Reading, Chief Executive Officer of European Goldfields, said: "We are excited by the results, particular the high grade intercepts on the southern flank of the West Zone and as none of this mineralisation is included in the current reserves it represents upside for the Certej project."

Sample preparation and analysis was carried out at the independent ISO Certified ALS-Chemex Laboratory at Gura Rosiei, Romania, using industry standard fire assay techniques for gold on 50-gram sample charges with atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) finish and aqua regia digest for silver with an AAS finish. In addition to the laboratory's standard quality assurance / quality control (QAQC), European Goldfields submit field duplicates, crusher duplicates, pulp duplicates and known gold standards on a routine basis and these comprise approximately 20% of submitted samples.  Unless otherwise indicated, the intercepts reported above are from split HQ size diamond core and the holes are sampled at one-metre intervals throughout the entire hole.

About European Goldfields

European Goldfields is a resource company involved in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties in Greece, Romania and South-East Europe.

Greece - European Goldfields holds a 65% interest in Hellas Gold S.A. Hellas Gold owns three major gold and base metal deposits in Northern Greece. The deposits are the polymetallic projects of Stratoni and Olympias which contain gold, zinc, lead and silver, and the Skouries copper/gold porphyry body.  Hellas Gold commenced production at Stratoni in September 2005 and selling an existing stockpile of Olympias gold concentrates in July 2006. Hellas Gold is applying for permits to develop the Skouries and Olympias projects.

Romania - European Goldfields owns 80% of the Certej gold/silver project in Romania. European Goldfields submitted in March 2007 a technical feasibility study to the Romanian government, in support of a permit application to develop the project.

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