Mr. Peter Miles reports

SANATANA ANNOUNCES NEW DIRECTOR

Sanatana Resources Inc. has appointed Ian Smith, FAusIMM, MCIM, to the company's board of directors.

Mr. Smith is a mining engineering graduate of the University of Queensland, Australia, with 50 years of experience in corporate, operations, and project management and consulting within the international base and precious metals industries. He has a broad range of underground and open-pit operating experience. Most importantly for Sanatana, Mr. Smith was the mine superintendent and chief mining engineer at the 90,000-tonne-per-day Bougainville copper mine in Papua New Guinea, located to the northwest of Sanatana's recently acquired Tirua project.

Peter Miles, president and chief executive officer, commented, "Ian's extensive engineering and operational experience in the Papua New Guinea and Solomon Island region, and indeed around the world, will be invaluable to Sanatana's board and technical team as we move forward on our Tirua project."

Mr. Smith managed the start-up of the 72,000-tonne-per-day La Caridad open-pit copper mine in Sonora, Mexico, and, as president and chief executive officer, engineered and constructed a 2,500-tonne-per-day (70,000-ounce-per-year) carbon-in-leach gold project in Uruguay. As president and chief executive officer of bcMetals Corp., he engineered the 30,000-tonne-per-day Red Chris copper-gold porphyry project for development in northwestern British Columbia prior to it being acquired by Imperial Metals Corp. As president and chief executive officer of Yellowhead Mining Inc., Mr. Smith took the Harper Creek project from exploration to development stage with the completion of prefeasibility and feasibility studies for a 70,000-tonne-per-day open-pit mine in a period of 18 months. Mr. Smith was president and founding partner of Mineral Resources Development Inc., one of North America's most successful mining industry consulting companies, until it was purchased by Canadian interests in 1995. He has managed engineering and strategic studies on large-scale open-pit projects in Zambia, China, Chile, Argentina, Siberia and the Philippines.

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