Apex Geoscience Completes Second Phase of Work, Submits Samples for Laboratory Testing

Tuesday September 19, 10:00 am ET

LEWISBURG, KY--(MARKET WIRE)--Sep 19, 2006 -- Delta Mining and Exploration is pleased to announce that Apex Geoscience LTD has completed the second phase of exploration work on Delta's Grassrange District Properties in Montana.

The program consisted of detailed mapping and collection of samples for diamond indicator mineral analysis and focused on the Homestead and Three Buttes kimberlite bodies and the Teigen Butte and Rattlesnake Butte targets. Fourteen samples were taken from the properties and submitted for processing and picking. Laboratory results vary in time and Delta will make them public as soon as they become available.

Once analyses of the results are made public, a follow-up field campaign, expected to consist of trenching with collection of large weight samples for micro-diamond analysis, will be undertaken. Diamond indicator minerals, G10 pyrope garnets, and a micro-diamond were previously recovered from the Homestead kimberlite by Delta during early reconnaissance sampling of the property.

About Delta Mining and Exploration Corp.: http://www.deltamine.com: Delta 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 much of North America's diamonds have been found. A further 10,000 acres of prospective diamond properties are controlled in Bolivia, South America.

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