LRL Leyshon Res

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Leyshon Resources Limited
18 June 2007



18 June 2007


            Promising early indications from latest drill programme

Leyshon Resources Limited ("Leyshon") (AIM & ASX: LRL) today reports that its
major drill programme at the Zheng Guang gold project in Heilongjiang, northeast
China is progressing ahead of schedule and that early indications have been
promising.

The 29,000 metre programme is being undertaken with 4 diamond drill rigs and one
reverse circulation rig and is being supervised by a team of 6 geologists. The
programme follows on from the highly successful 2006 programme which increased
the resource estimate by 43% to 1.21 million ounces of gold, 94,000 tonnes of
zinc and 3.72 million ounces of silver at a cost of less than US$5 per ounce.

The infill and extension diamond drilling programme in the Main Ore Zone is
progressing well ahead of schedule with approximately 5,500 metres of the
planned 7,000 metre programme completed to date.

Early indications are positive with mineralization being intersected in the
infill holes as expected, but at potentially greater widths as the deeper holes
have had to be extended beyond design target depths. This programme has been
designed to raise the resource confidence levels to the Measured and Indicated
categories and is on track to do so.

In addition holes drilled on the two northernmost lines of the Main Ore Zone
have intersected mineralisation to the west of previous shallow drilling
confirming the potential for the mineralization of the Main Ore Zone to extend
northwards and potentially increase the overall near surface resource. Further
drilling is planned to test this area.

One of the four rigs will now be moved from the Main Ore Zone to test the gold
zinc mineralisation discovered at Zheng Guang North in the 2006 reverse
circulation programme.

The first batch of assay results, which are expected in the next few weeks, will
be from several hundred metres of uncut mineralised core from the 2006 programme
and the first results from 5,900 metres of reverse circulation drilling testing
geochemical anomalies to the east and west of the Main Ore Zone.

Thereafter assay results from the 2007 programme will be released as they come
to hand.

Managing Director Paul Atherley commented: "We are delighted with the rapid
progress of this year's exploration programme which will now give us the
opportunity to extend the programme onto the recently acquired adjacent
Exploration Licence area."

For further information contact:

Leyshon Resources
Paul Atherley - Managing Director
Tel: +86 137 1800 1914
Mob: +61 417 475 038

Pelham Public Relations
Charles Vivian
Tel: +44 (0)207 743 6672
Mob: +44 (0)7977 297 903

Candice Sgroi
Tel: +44 (0)207 743 6376
Mob: +44 (0)7894 462 114

Seymour Pierce
Jonathan Wright
Tel: +44 (0)207 107 8050

                        http://www.leyshonresources.com

Background Information

Leyshon is fully engaged in China with its main operating office in Beijing its
Chairman, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer all based in China and
with over 80% of employees who are either native Chinese or Mandarin speaking.

The Company is rapidly progressing the Zheng Guang gold zinc project to
production status and is aiming to jointly develop it as first ever Sino Foreign
owned mine in the mineral rich province of Heilongjiang's in 2008.

The project benefits from exceptional infrastructure as it is located within a
well established coal and copper mining community with rail, power, water and
mining contractor services immediately available.

In March 2007 Hellman and Schofield Pty Ltd of Australia reported a recoverable
resource estimate of 1.21 million ounces of gold, 3.72 million ounces of silver
and 94,000 tonnes of zinc of which 50% was reported in the Measured and
Indicated category.

The gold equivalent of this resource estimate is over 1.7 million ounces and the
discovery cost to date has been less than US$5 per ounce reflecting the lack of
modern exploration in a major gold belt which has produced over 20 million
ounces from mainly surface and alluvial methods.

Leyshon's partner, the Qiqiha'er Brigade of the Heilongjiang Bureau of Geology
and Mineral Resources, one of the largest organizations of its kind in China, is
providing a range of services to the joint venture from its complement of 4,000
technical staff, drill rigs, laboratory and other technical facilities. This
valuable support is enabling the project to rapidly move ahead on an extremely
cost effective basis.

Geological Information

The information in this report relating to Exploration Results, Mineral
Resources or Ore Reserves is based on information compiled by Richard Seville, a
Director of the Company, who is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining
and Metallurgy.

Richard Seville has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of
mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which
he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2004
Edition of the 'Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral
Resources and Ore Reserves'. Richard Seville consents to the inclusion in the
report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which
it appears.




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