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Distributed: Aug 25, 2008

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Perth, Aug 25, 2008 (ABN Newswire) - ABM Resources NL (ASX:ABU) holds a 67.33% interest in the highly prospective Mimosa gold project and has the right to increase its interest to 86.33% after spending US$3M. Mimosa is adjacent to the under-explored Archaean greenstone belt of the Manica Province in central Mozambique, approximately 800km north of the Mozambique capital of Maputo.

Key Points:

- Encouraging first assay results including 4m @ 8.71g/t Au received from the scout RC drilling program at Mimosa.

- A total of 895m of RC and 398m of diamond drilling completed to date.

- These drill results represent first modern exploration and drilling carried out at Mimosa which hosts over 20 years of extensive artisanal workings.

Mimosa lies adjacent to the east-west trending Odzi-Mutare Greenstone Belt, which has historically produced an estimated 2.5 million ounces of gold. The Mimosa gold project area possesses an extensive gold mining history and has not previously been explored using modern exploration techniques. Local artisanal miners have been mining gold in quartz veins at Mimosa by hand for approximately 20 years. The project consists of three concessions totalling 960 hectares.

Drilling Program

ABM is pleased to announce that encouraging drill results including 4m @ 8.71g/t Au have been received from the first five hole batch of assay results from the scout RC drilling program at Mimosa. A total of 12 RC drill holes have been completed for a total 895m. RC drill holes have been completed on sections 80 to 160m apart.

The RC drilling program was aimed at testing areas where rock chip sampling completed by ABM returned assays of up to 30.1g/t Au. In addition, drilling will test the depth continuations of the gold mineralization being exploited by local artisanal miners.

Due to the problems with the RC rig drilling through the weathered profile, a diamond drill rig was secured to complete the remainder of the program. A total of two diamond tails and two surface diamond holes have been completed for a total of 400m. The statistics of the RC and diamond drill holes are tabled below:
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Hole ID North   East    Dip     Azimuth Depth
                                        m
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MC001   480987  7921870 -60*    180*    92
MC002   480990  7921961 -60*    180*    70
MCD003  481061  7921990 -60*    180*    130
MC004   481150  7922206 -60*    180*    73
MC005   481228  7922051 -60*    180*    60
MCD006  481239  7922206 -60*    180*    178.2
MC007   481388  7922170 -60*    180*    62
MC008   481312  7922116 -60*    180*    92
MC009   481488  7922166 -60*    180*    115
MC010   481635  7922282 -60*    180*    40
MC011   481771  7922257 -60*    180*    49
MC012   481651  7922172 -60*    180*    49
MD013   481059  7921992 -60*    090*    142
MD014   481239  7922206 -60*    090*    139.2
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Drilling to date has demonstrated that weathering at Mimosa can extend to depths greater than 70 metres. The weathered material mostly consists of clays and minor saprolitic zones. In primary/fresh zone, the lithologies comprise granitic gneisses and small discontinuous ultramafic intrusions (talc-chlorite) with epidote, magnetite and pyrite alteration.

The samples from the RC drilling were collected over 1m intervals and 4m composite samples were dispatched for analysis. Samples were prepared by single stage mill and grind. Pulverised samples were analysed by fire assay method using a 50 gram sample with results reported in ppm. Assays from the first five drill holes are tabled below:
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Hole ID North   East    Interval   Au g/t
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MC001   480987  7921870 0-4        0.82
                        16-20      0.39
MC002   480990  7921961 No significant results
MC003   481061  7921990 4-8        0.29
MC004   481150  7922206 No significant results
MC005   481228  7922051 56-60      8.71
                        60-61      0.77
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About ABM Resources NL

ABM Resources (ASX:ABU) is a mineral exploration company focused on gold and gold/copper discovery in the Tanami-Arunta regions of the Northern Territory, Australia. The Company is one of the largest exploration license/license application holders in Australia. The Company has an aggressive exploration approach.

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MR IMANTS KINS
Executive Chairman
TEL: +61 8 9423 9777

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