VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 4, 2008) - East Asia Minerals Corporation (TSX VENTURE:EAS) reports that recent drilling at Bawone, located one kilometre south of Binebase, on Sangihe Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia, has encountered a thick interval of primary sulphide mineralization, including 103.15 metres of 1.81 g/t gold and 0.20% copper, in the northwestern end of the prospect area. The mineralized zone remains open along strike both to the northwest and the southeast.

Bawone Drilling Update

Diamond core drilling by EAS has recommenced at Bawone with the arrival of a second diamond drill rig on site. The first hole completed in this campaign (BOD-42) returned an impressive thick interval of 103.15 metres of 1.81 g/t gold and 0.20% copper in sulphide mineralization, including a higher grade, near-surface zone of 25.50 metres of 3.39 g/t gold and 0.35% copper. Gold grade distribution is remarkably even throughout the mineralized interval apart from one high-grade interval of 3.45 metres of 12.67 g/t starting at 20.50 metres.

Hole BOD-42 was drilled to the northwest between and perpendicular to holes BOD-01 and BOD-03 to test the strike extension of gold mineralization encountered in 2007 by EAS in BOD-01 (95.0 metres of 2.15 g/t gold starting at 30.0 metres) and BOD-03 (125.0 metres of 1.67 g/t gold starting at 19.0 metres).

Holes BOD-47 and BOD-50 have been drilled 40 and 80 metres respectively southeast of BOD-02 across the projected strike of the known gold mineralized zone. Assays for these holes are pending.

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Hole         From       To   Interval    Gold   Silver   Copper   ization
Number         (m)      (m)        (m)   (g/t)    (g/t)      (%)  Type
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BOD-42      20.50   123.65     103.15    1.81     4.47     0.20   Sulphide
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Including   20.50    46.00      25.50    3.39     6.04     0.35   sulphide
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This recent drilling has extended the northwest trending sulphide zone at Bawone to over 200 metres long by 75 metres wide by 100 metres deep (map at www.EAminerals.com). Better gold mineralization appears to form around the margins of breccia bodies and is flanked outwards by andesite dykes and domes. There appears to be good scope to increase the size of the gold-bearing zone, which remains open in most directions.

Samples reported were assayed at PT SGS Indoassay (SGS Group) in Balikpapan. David Royle, B.Sc. (Hons), FAusIMM, CP, the designated QP within the meaning of 43-101, has reviewed and approves the content of this release.

About East Asia Minerals Corporation

East Asia Minerals is an Asian-based, Canadian mineral exploration company with gold and copper exploration properties in Indonesia, and uranium exploration properties in Mongolia. In Indonesia the Company has a 70 to 85% interest in six advanced gold and gold-copper properties located in Aceh Province, Sumatra, and Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi. Two of these, the Sangihe (Binebase-Bawone) and Barisan 1 (Abong) gold projects are being drilled to define NI43-101 compliant resources. The Company owns ten uranium properties, including the advanced Ingiin-Nars, Ulaan Nuur and Enger uranium projects, and a 75% interest in the Khok Adar copper oxide discovery in Mongolia. East Asia currently has 55,645,372 shares outstanding. Its shares are listed for trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "EAS".

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