Ampella Mining Ltd (ASX:AMX) To Commence New 20,000 Metre Drill Program At Batie West Gold Project

Perth, Sep 2, 2009 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Ampella Mining Ltd (ASX:AMX) is pleased to announce that it will commence the first phase of a new 20,000 metre drill program on 7th September 2009 at its Batie West Gold Project in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The initial phase of this program will comprise approximately 10,000 metre of reverse circulation (RC) drilling and 3,600m of aircore drilling on the Tiopolo Permit.

The Batie West Project consists of five permits which encompass a 110km long gold-bearing shear zone over the southwest margin of the Boromo Greenstone Belt.

A major objective for the upcoming drill program is to provide resource estimates for both the Konkera Main and Konkera North Prospects. In addition, the drill programs will look to extend the known strike extents of gold mineralisation at these Prospects as all systems remain open both along strike and at depth.

At the Konkera Main Prospect mineralisation extends over 1km in strike and all 31 previous drill holes intersected significant gold mineralisation of grades above 0.5 g/t Au. Best intercepts from that program included:

- 28.8m at 3.66 g/t Au including 4.1m at 15.45 g/t Au in KNRD053
- 32.3m at 2.34 g/t Au including 15.5m at 3.50 g/t Au in KNRD051
- 25m at 2.57 g/t Au including 3.1m at 5.00 g/t Au and 5.1m at 4.05 g/t Au in KNRD026
- 23m at 2.13 g/t Au including 8m at 4.30 g/t Au in KNRD057
- 22.7m at 2.07 g/t Au including 5.4m at 4.60 g/t Au in KNRD038
- 15.8m at 3.51 g/t Au including 9m at 5.19 g/t Au in KNRD057
- 13.3m at 4.01 g/t Au including 9.4m at 5.50 g/t Au in KNRD052

A total of 27 RC drillholes for approximately 3,200 metres are planned for resource definition on the western margin of Konkera Main. An additional 32 RC drillholes for approximately 2,600 metres are outlined to test a recently discovered adjacent auger geochemistry target on the eastern margin of Konkera Main.

Gold mineralisation is then continuous for an additional 2km to the north of Konkera Main over an area called Konkera North, where all 17 previous drill holes have also intersected significant gold mineralisation. Best intercepts included:

- 22 metres at 5.04 g/t Au from 4 metres in KNRC012
- 24 metres at 4.09 g/t Au from 7metres in KNRC013
- 44 metres at 2.19 g/t Au from surface including 20 metres at 3.80 g/t Au in KNRD045
- 20 metres at 2.42 g/t Au from 42 metres within an intercept of 88 metres at 0.98 g/t Au in KNRD054
- 10 metres at 2.28 g/t Au from 54 metres in KNRC040

A total of 39 RC drillholes for approximately 4,100 metres are planned for resource definition at Konkera North.

Ongoing exploration programs of ground geophysics and auger geochemistry have continued across the Tiopolo and Mabera permits where Ampella unveiled four additional new gold discoveries during June 2009. One of those prospects, Kouglaga, which occurs less than 2 km north of Konkera North, has a reported RC intersection consisting of 42m at 3.77 g/t Au from 6m depth, with a higher grade zone consisting of 20m at 6.97 g/t Au from 10m depth. The ongoing ground geophysics and infill auger geochemistry programs will be used to provide focus for additional drill programs planned for later in 2009 as part of the current 20,000 metre drill program.

In addition to the planned RC drill programs mentioned above, an aircore drill program of approximately 3,600 metres will be used to further define gold geochemistry targets over an area of 1km2 between the Kouglaga and Konkera North Prospects where deep ferricrete horizons have limited previous conventional auger and soil geochemistry programs.

The program is expected to cost approximately $1.5 million and take approximately 6 weeks to complete. Results will be released to the market when available.

A series of preliminary metallurgical tests have been commissioned to determine the amenability of the gold to gravity and conventional cyanidation recovery on prepared samples of drill cuttings and core from the previous drilling phase.

Contact

Paul Kitto CEO/MD Mob: +61-419-883-563 Web: www.ampella.com.au Evan Cranston Executive Director - Corporate Mob: +61-408-865-838