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Apex Geoscience Ltd Commences Work Program on Montana Properties

LEWISBURG, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 2005--Delta Mining and Exploration Corp., (Pink Sheets: DMXC) is pleased to announce that Apex Geoscience, LTD has commenced a detailed fieldwork program on the Montana properties. As announced in a press release dated July 28, 2005, Delta has retained Apex Geoscience, a leading geological consulting firm, to carry out exploration on the Homestead kimberlite pipe and the TV Hill, Half Moon, Rattler Butte, Three Buttes and Teigen Butte, diamond targets in the Grassrange district of Eastern Montana. The work is a follow-up to initial exploration previously completed by Delta in which a number of targets with diamond potential were identified containing classic diamond indicator minerals. In the case of the Homestead pipe a micro-diamond was recovered.

The Apex work program will be multi-phased. The first phase will consist of a geophysical program comprising a ground magnetometer survey to outline the size extent of Delta's exploration targets. Phase two will consist of expanded geophysics, detailed ground mapping, trenching and sampling which will lead to bulk sampling of key targets. Results of each step will be issued as they become available, with the whole program scheduled to last through the end of summer.

Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Apex Geoscience, http://www.apexgeoscience.com, has provided professional geological consulting services for over 25 years. The firm consists of two principals, ten geologists, together with a full support staff with extensive and in depth experience in diamond exploration.

Delta Mining and Exploration Corp, http://www.deltamine.com: is a mineral exploration company with an extensive portfolio of diamond properties in Montana, USA and in Bolivia, South America. Delta controls some 8,000 acres throughout Montana located within the Wyoming Craton where many of North America's diamonds have been found. Another 10,000 acres of prospective diamond properties are controlled in Bolivia, South America.

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             Alex Livak, 347-813-4664
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