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RNS No 8334x
MANO RIVER RESOURCES INC
26th October 1998


MANO RIVER RESOURCES INC

Mano River Resources Inc is pleased to announce the results of a
program of lithogeochemical sampling in its Larjor property in
western Liberia and the award of Exclusive Prospecting Licences
in the Kono area of Sierra Leone.

Liberia

Larjor is 110km from Monrovia in the Bea Mountains schist belt,
where a 75%-owned Mano River subsidiary, Bea Mountain Mining
Corporation (Liberia), holds a 2,600 square kilometre
Exploration Licence awarded in April 1998.  Sheared ultramafic
rocks and talc schists host disseminated gold mineralisation
exposed in a subvertical zone with known strike length of 2
kilometres and widths of up to 100 metres.  Reconnaissance
channel samples across artisanal workings gave encouraging
results, including 20m at 4.1 g/t gold and 13.1m at 4.6 g/t
gold, the latter in a working 870m along strike from the first.

Preliminary gold assay results from the current 600m trenching
program, which sampled highly oxidised bedrock at a depth of
2.5m in the trenches immediately along strike from the high
grade workings, returned encouraging values which did, however,
indicate some degree of expected depletion at this level.  A
program is under way to determine the extent of the near surface
depletion over this mineralised zone.  At the same time, trench
results suggest the mineralised zone is significantly wider than
the present workings in many localities, with values (generally
every fifth sample has been analysed to date) of:

       Trench 2              20m at 1.0 g/t gold

       Trench 6              20m at 3.1 g/t gold

       Trench 7              28m at 1.9 g/t gold

       Trench 8              10m at 1.1 g/t gold (1,000m south of trench 2)

Recent channel samples in the artisanal workings, taken at
depths of from 3 to 7m below surface, included results of:

       5m at 19.0 g/t gold

       5m at 10.7 g/t gold

       4m at 7.0 g/t gold

If preliminary conclusions are confirmed by further trenching
and a 2,000m diamond drilling program which is expected to get
under way before year end, this property has the potential to
host a sizeable gold deposit.
Sierra Leone

The Government of Sierra Leone has granted the 90%-owned Mano
River Resources subsidiary, Gold Leo Resources Limited, two new
Exclusive Prospecting Licences for diamonds in the historically
highly productive Kono area.  Centred on Yengema and N'Jaima
Nimikoro respectively, these licences are each of approximately
103 square kilometres.  The N'Jaima area has long been known for
producing stones which differ from those in the main kimberlite
zone, suggesting an independent source rock.  Together with
Golden Leo's existing Nimini Exclusive Prospecting Licence,
these properties target the central and western part of the
Koidu-Yengema kimberlite dyke swarm.  Of particular interest is
the possibility of diamond-bearing kimberlites at two major
intersections between fault and dyke systems located between
Koidu and Yengema, and north of N'Jaima Nimikoro, respectively. 
The Company plans, as soon as local conditions allow, an initial
programme of airborne geophysics.

Mano River Resources Inc aims to create shareholder value
through the identification, exploration and development of high
quality mineral deposits in the West African Mano River Union
countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

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 E Pas, Co-Chairman  - Switzerland + 41 22 758 2151

P Anthony Rhatigan, Co-Chairman - UK 0385 297 348                       
International + 44 385 297 348

Peter Dwerryhouse, Director - UK + 44 (0) 1732 464 842                        
Canada +1 (604) 662 3730

Date: 26 October 1998

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