LANGU SPECIAL PROSPECTING LICENSES ISSUED
August 10, 2004

Amanta Resources Ltd. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the Department of Primary Industry and Mines (DPIM) has issued two Special Prospecting Licenses (SPLs) for the Langu gold property in southern Thailand.

The SPLs cover an area of approximately 25 square kilometres and confer exclusive rights to explore for gold and other minerals, and to apply for long-term Mining Licences should the Company discover an economic mineral deposit.  The SPLs are for a period of 3 years, expiring in July 2007.  They surround the existing Mining Licence, issued to Arun Sapachai Karn Muang Mae Ltd., over which the Company has also acquired the exploration and development rights.   

The Langu property,s located in Satun Province, southern Thailand, is a high grade limestone hosted gold exploration target with strong Carlin style affinities.  So far, the Company’s geologists have encountered the best grades in an old stibnite quarry from where, unrecognized by the local miners, massive arsenian pyrite samples have returned up to 180 g/t Au.  Assays from samples taken by the Company’s independent consultants, APEX Geoscience Ltd., have been as high as 153.5 g/t Au, while a total of eight samples, taken from an identified 20 meter long outcrop in the quarry floor, returned grades from 4.15 to 36.8 g/t Au, averaging 20.0 g/t Au. 

The Company is currently conducting the second phase of its planned exploration and development programs for the Langu gold property.  This will include detailed mapping and geochemical sampling of the quarry area, as well as geophysical test  work and RC drilling.  For the larger area covered by the SPLs, work will include regional geochemical sampling and mapping.  The present programs are budgeted at approximately. $300,000, and are expected to be completed in about 4 months.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF
AMANTA RESOURCES LTD.

“Gerald D. Wright”

Gerald D. Wright,
President

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