RNS Number:1197K
Mano River Resources Inc
5 May 2000


                       Mano River Resources Inc.
                                                                            
Canadian Venture Exchange                 Trading Symbol:  MNO   
London Stock Exchange - AIM               Trading Symbol:  MANA

Encouraging Gold Intersections from initial Drilling of GONDOJA Property

Mano River Resources is pleased to announce encouraging results from the first
phase diamond drilling of its GONDOJA property in western Liberia.  Four of
the five holes drilled, for a total of 650m, intersected gold mineralisation
as follows: 


Drill hole          Interval in metres        g/t gold


GD-1                 38-46m     8m              1.9

GD-2                  6-14m     8m              0.7

GD-4                 74-104m   30m              3.9
                       incl
                     92-104m   12m              7.0           

GD-5                 38-40m     2m              2.0
                       and
                     58-64m     6m              1.2

The host rock to the gold mineralisation is a strongly sheared
mafic-ultramafic of presumed komatiitic origin, the gold itself being
associated with disseminated sulphides, principally pyrrhotite, with minor
pyrite and quartz-scheelite veining.  Occasional galena is observed, the
prospect having been the subject of base metal investigation some twenty five
years ago by Preussag. 

Hole GD-4, which returned the best intersection of 30m @ 3.9 g/t, was drilled
at -75 degrees beneath the main artisanal pit.  The higher grade sub-section
in hole GD-4, i.e. 12m @ 7.0 g/t gold, compares well with the 6m @ 10.1 g/t
obtained from a channel sample in artisanal surface workings. The zone is open
to the west and at depth.  Follow up work will involve extending the soil
geochemical grid and additional trenching, prior to further drilling

The procedure followed with all of Mano's drill core and geochemistry samples
is that they are shipped to the SGS Laboratory in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where
both sample preparation and fire assay are performed. In addition to
systematic check assaying carried out by SGS, one in ten of the samples is
further check assayed by an independent laboratory in Ireland, with excellent
correlation to date in values obtained. 

Mano 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, is currently
concentrating its exploration efforts 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  0385 297 348
                                                  International +44 385 297 348
         Peter Dwerryhouse Director                   Canada  +1 (604) 662 3730
                                                         UK  +44 171 504 8147

The Canadian Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not take
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release


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