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RNS No 5577m
MANO RIVER RESOURCES INC
25 October 1999


No:  99/15                         


Vancouver Stock Exchange          Trading Symbol:  MNO   
London Stock Exchange - AIM

Encouraging Metallurgical Results for King George-Larjor Gold Project 

Mano River Resources Inc. ("Mano") is pleased to  report encouraging results
received from metallurgical testwork on drill core samples from its King
George-Larjor  ("KGL") gold project in western Liberia, namely, gold
extraction rates in cyanidation tests on representative material ranging from
91.9% to 95.9%.

Five sections of split diamond drill core, each 2m long, were shipped to
Lakefield Research Laboratory in Canada for mineralogical analysis and
metallurgical testwork. As previously determined by the SGS laboratory in
Abidjan, which assayed the other half of the core, the gold grade of the
individual samples ranged from 7.1 g/t to 11.7 g/t, for an average of 9.3 g/t.


The drill holes from which the samples were selected comprised two each from
the Larjor and King George zones, plus one from Hole KGD-10 to the east.
Lakefield's mineralogical study showed the gold to occur as liberated grains,
as attachments to various minerals, or as inclusions in non-opaque minerals. 
Notably, less than 5% of the gold grains occur as inclusions in sulphide
minerals.

Metallurgical scoping and cyanidation optimisation testwork was initially
conducted by Lakefield on an equal weight composite of the five drill core
samples, designated as Composite 1. The calculated head grade of Composite 1
averaged 8.9 g/t gold.  In  a series of cyanidation bottle roll tests, gold
extraction for Composite 1 ranged from a low of 91.9% to a high of 95.9%.  The
optimised test conditions for maximum gold recovery of Composite 1 were then
applied to bottle roll tests on each of the five individual drill core
samples, the resulting gold extractions varying from 79.5% to 96.9%.

The zone of  oxidised mineralisation at KGL is quite shallow at around 10 to
15m and all the samples studied by Lakefield were of 'fresh' core from the
underlying sulphide zone.  The fact that the cyanidation bottle roll tests
nevertheless achieved recoveries in excess of 90% is considered highly
encouraging for the economics of any future mining operation at KGL.  These
results will need to be confirmed in larger scale testing as development of
KGL continues.

Mano River Resources aims to create shareholder value through the
identification, exploration and development of high quality gold and diamond
deposits in the West African Mano River Union countries of Liberia, Sierra
Leone and Guinea. The Company having made its pioneering entry into Liberia in
1995, Mano River's exploration efforts are currently concentrated on its
extensive licences in the west of the country, where the principal targets
comprise Archaean greenstone sequences considered comparable to those of the
Lake Victoria gold province in Tanzania, together with potentially
diamondiferous kimberlites related to the well-known diamond province in
neighbouring Sierra Leone. 

Tom Elder       
President and CEO                                   

Contacts:
       Tom Elder        President and CEO          UK +44 (0)1235 810 740
       John Mattison    Mattison Public Relations  UK +44 (0)171 729 3035
       Guy Pas          Co-Chairman           Switzerland +41 22 758 2151
       Tony Rhatigan    Co-Chairman                UK  +44 (0)385 297 348
       
       Peter Dwerryhouse  Director              Canada  +1 (604) 662 3730
                                                  UK  +44 (0)171 504 8147


The information contained herein has neither been approved nor disapproved by
the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

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