SECOND DRILL ARRIVES ON CASPICHE GOLD-COPPER PORPHYRY PROPERTY

Vancouver, B. C., January 24, 2008 – Exeter Resource Corporation (AMEX:XRA, TSX-V:XRC, Frankfurt: EXB – “Exeter” or the “Company”) reports that exploration on its Caspiche project, in the Maricunga region of Chile, will intensify with the arrival of a second diamond drill on the weekend.

The first drill hole for 2008, hole CSD014, was collared 9 metres (“m”) behind reverse circulation percussion (RC) hole CDH-05* drilled in 1997 by previous explorers. CSD014 was designed, in part, to verify the earlier results from CDH-05 and, most importantly, to intersect the favourable porphyry at depth. The hole is currently at a depth of 425 m and continues to intersect porphyry style stockwork mineralization.

Drill hole CDH-05* is reported  to have intersected 56 m at a grade of 1.0 gram per tonne (“g/t”) gold from 0 m to 56 m followed by 144 m at a grade of 0.5 g/t gold from 56 m to 200 m with the final 2 m sample returning 0.78 g/t gold and 0.43 percent (%) copper.

Upon completion of drill hole CSD014, Exeter plans to drill CSD015, a step-back hole 150 m from RC drill hole CSDH013 completed by Exeter in early 2007. The new hole is important, as CSDH013 returned a 304 m intersection (reported in Exeter release 07-14 on May 24, 2007) of 0.9 g/t gold from 40 m to 344 m (down hole depth). The final 2 m sample returned 0.8 g/t gold indicating that the mineralization was open to depth.

Hole CSD015 has a planned depth of 650 m and is designed to establish the depth continuity of gold mineralization. Importantly, the use of a diamond core drill (as opposed to the earlier RC drilling) will give the site geologists a far better understanding of the nature and controls of the gold-copper mineralization.

The second rig will drill step-out hole CSD016, located 150 m from historic RC drill hole CDH-03*. CDH-03, drilled to a depth of 326 m, returned a 76 m intersection at 0.5 g/t gold from 28 m to 104 m, a 68 m intersection at 0.4 g/t gold from 104 m to 172 m and a 154 m intersection at 0.6 g/t gold from 172 m to 326 m. The final 2 m of the hole returned an assay of 1.0 g/t gold and 0.29% copper. Drill hole CSD016 has a planned depth of 650 m and will test both the lateral and depth continuity of mineralization intersected by CSDH013.

The first phase of a ground magnetic survey has been completed on the property. The new imagery clearly defines a 1.0 kilometre diameter magnetic high emanating from a deep source that appears to be centred on the mineralization at Caspiche. Additionally, geophysical contractor Zonge of Chile is conducting a resistivity survey over the property. Preliminary results indicate a resistive body coincides with the magnetic high. The survey is due for completion by month end.

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Quality Control and Assurance

The assayed mineralization reported for Exeter drill holes is the drill intersection width and may not represent the true width of mineralization. Assay results have been calculated using a 0.5 g/t gold equivalent cut-off grade, with no cutting of high grades. Exeter’s reverse circulation drill samples are collected using a cyclone in two metre intervals; no compositing is undertaken at the rig. Gold samples were prepared and assayed by fire assay (50 gram charge) and ICP-MS used for copper at the ACME laboratory in Santiago, an ISO-9001:2000 certified laboratory. Standard, blank and duplicate samples are used throughout the sample sequence as checks for the exploratory reverse circulation drilling.

Glen Van Kerkvoort, Exeter’s Chief Geologist and a “qualified person” within the definition of that term in National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, has supervised the preparation of the technical information contained in this news release.

While the Company has no reason to doubt the accuracy of the historical results from drill holes CDH-03 and CDH-05 presented herein, the Company can provide no assurance as to the accuracy of any such results until they have been confirmed by its own exploration.  In addition, these results and the work that generated them, pre-date the enactment of Canadian Securities’ Administrators’ National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”) and, accordingly, may not meet the requirements of that policy.

* holes drilled by Minera Newcrest Chile Limitada.

About Exeter

Exeter Resource Corporation is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on the discovery and development of gold and silver properties in South America.

The Cerro Moro Gold-Silver Project (100% owned by Exeter) in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina is generating high grade to 'bonanza grade' drilling results from an extensive epithermal vein system, located 130 kilometres (80 miles) east of the Cerro Vanguardia gold mine. Drilling will continue through 2008 using as a minimum three drill rigs. Our focus is to establish a high grade gold-silver resource amenable to open pit mining.

In Chile, the Company has started a major drilling program on its Caspiche gold porphyry project, located between the Refugio mine (Kinross Mining Corp) and the giant Cerro Casale gold project (Barrick Gold Corp and  Kinross Mining Corp).

As a result of recent political developments in Mendoza Province, Argentina, the further development of the advanced Don Sixto Gold Project has been put on hold. The Company has filed suit in the Mendoza Courts to challenge the constitutionality of new legislation, which has the effect of banning conventional mining in the province. The Company will continue to work with authorities in Mendoza, and with representatives of other mining companies, to effect legislative amendment.

In 2008, Exeter will drill other gold-silver targets in prospective regions of Patagonian Argentina and Chile. The Company gained a broad foothold in the region through separate strategic alliances with Cerro Vanguardia S.A. (an AngloGold Ashanti subsidiary), and Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration Chile.

You are invited to visit the Exeter web site at www.exeterresource.com

EXETER RESOURCE CORPORATION

Bryce Roxburgh

President and CEO

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