MAN Manroy

RNS No 3290b
MANO RIVER RESOURCES INCORPORATED
21st December 1998


Mano River Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that the
results of the ongoing programme of detailed geological mapping,
trenching and sampling at its Larjor property in the Bea
Mountains region of western Liberia are considered sufficiently
encouraging to justify advancing the project to the drilling
stage.  Accordingly, a contract has been signed with Drill Sure
of the UK for a 2,000 metre programme of diamond drilling. 
Drill Sure's west African operations are based in Abidjan and
mobilisation of the drill machine from the Ivory Coast to Larjor
will take place by early January, with drilling scheduled to
commence by mid month.  This initial programme will comprise
approximately 20 inclined holes designed to test the zone of
gold mineralisation to depths of about 100m below surface.  A
team of Government surveyors put in a base line and grid system
over the property during December, in order to provide precise
control of the drilling programme.  Construction of a new field
camp to accommodate the expanding team of expatriate and local
geologists has also been completed, along with core sample
preparation facilities. 

A further 1,000 metres of trenching was carried out on the
property during the final quarter of 1998.  In order to ensure
that sampling can be carried out in bedrock, below the regolith,
all current trenching is to an average depth of 3.5 metres below
surface.  The trenches have exposed veining, pyritisation and
alteration over true widths of more than 50 metres in places
within the greenstone hosted Larjor shear zone.  Assay results
are awaited.

In further corporate developments, an Advisory Board has been
established comprising Senator Keikura Bayoh Kpoto, Mr Moustapha
Niasse and Professor Robert Nesbitt.  Senator Kpoto, who was an
important member of several previous Liberian governments and is
presently majority leader in the Senate, will chair the Advisory
Board.  Mr Niasse has served as Foreign Minister and Prime
Minister in Senegal and represented Senegal, the OAU, the
Islamic Conference and the Non-Aligned Nations at the UN on many
occasions.  He is currently a consultant to several African
heads of state and is retained by the UN to direct certain
African peace initiatives.  Professor Nesbitt, currently Head of
the Department of Earth Sciences and Oceanography in Southampton
University, has exceptional contacts and experience in the field
of bi-laterial and multi-lateral funding and will also foster
Mano's links with the University, which in turn has strong
affiliations with academic institutions in Sierra Leone in
particular.

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

U.K.       +44 (0)1235 810 740

John Mattison, Mattison Public Relations

U.K.       +44 (0)171 729 3035



Guy 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

U.K.        +44 (0)1732 464 842

Canada       +1 (604) 662 3730


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

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