To: Stan Greene  who wrote (41 ) 6/4/1998 11:03:00 PM From: dvid     Read Replies (1)  | Respond to    of 73  
 June 4th News Release I would have thought this would make the market move up. BANRO'S RE-SAMPLING AND MAPPING PROGRAM CONFIRMS TWANGIZA HISTORICAL DATABASE     TORONTO, June 4 /CNW/ - Banro Resource Corporation is pleased to report assay results from a re-sampling and mapping program on a selected number of adits and cross-cuts that were developed during the 1960's. ''This part of the recently completed Phase I exploration program was conducted in order to evaluate the precision of historical assay results and to further understand the geology at the Twangiza deposit,'' states Banro President & CEO, Bernard van Rooyen.     In total sixteen adits and associated cross-cuts were rehabilitated, in part or in whole, and channel sampled at 1 metre intervals from both walls of the adits, for a total of 1,613 samples. Current results compared favorably with historical results derived from the same area.     Comparison tables of selected data, using a 1-gram per tonne cutoff for the current sample results, are as follows:     >>     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Level       Adit Name        Length              Gold Grade (g/t)                                               -------------------------------                                     (m)          Current        Historical     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2100           G6E            91.00            3.16            2.67     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G6W            46.40            2.49            2.10     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G6W            27.00            1.65            1.53     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2100           G7E            36.10            2.44            3.18     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G7W             7.00            1.38            1.81     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G7W            34.00            1.76            2.34     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2100           G8E            18.00            1.91            1.73     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G8E            12.00           10.24            6.37     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G8W            30.00            3.39            1.72     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G8W            19.00            2.74            5.02     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2100           G9E            17.00            2.25            1.25     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G9W            25.00            3.37            0.98     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G9W             7.00            1.74            0.25     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2100           G10E           10.00            1.71            1.70     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G10W           15.00            1.64            1.20     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2131           G18N           86.70            4.66            4.43     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G18S           94.00            4.57            4.56     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2131           G18R1SE        24.00            3.85            4.04     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G18R1SE         6.00            2.47            2.15     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G18R1SW        18.00            5.96            5.56     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2131           G19N           41.00            1.92            2.78     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G19N           51.40            4.71            3.95     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G19S          102.70            3.12            3.49     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2131           G19AN          14.00            4.93            3.27     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G19AN          29.00            3.61            4.21     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G19AS          14.00            2.67            1.93     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G19AS          28.00            3.79            2.72     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2131           G19R1NW         6.00            1.20            0.30     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2131           G19R1SE        10.00            6.67            5.48     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G19R1SW        20.00            2.72            2.57     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2131           G19R2NEW       55.70            3.97            4.61     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G19R2NW        23.00            6.89            4.43     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G19R2NW        28.00            7.97            6.28     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2131           G20E           22.00            2.15            1.45     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G20W           10.00            2.91            2.25     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2180           G5AE           10.00            1.15            1.87     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G5AE           66.00            5.42            4.45     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G5AW           66.80            4.55            4.48     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     2220           G9E             8.00            3.34            3.01     -------------------------------------------------------------------------                    G9W            11.00            6.59            4.21     -------------------------------------------------------------------------     >>     Additionally a detailed mapping and sampling program was conducted within the Mwenga Pit, located at the southern end of the Twangiza deposit, and created through the excavation of approximately 1.5 million tonnes of oxide material by artisanal miners. This open pit has been excavated below the lowest level of adits within the area, providing a unique opportunity to compare in-situ sample results with gold grades inferred by historical resource calculations. A total of 1,102 one-metre channel samples were collected along a grid system established to provide full coverage of the exposed Twangiza anticline. Results from the sampling program confirmed the grades that were anticipated in this area from the resource modeling.     Selected intervals from within the pit, using a 1-gram per tonne cut-off, are as follows:     <<                        -----------------------------                            Length     Gold Grade                              (m)         (g/t)                        -----------------------------                             43.86        3.01                        -----------------------------                             42.82        4.43                        -----------------------------                             30.08        5.06                        -----------------------------                              8.37       11.28                        -----------------------------                             34.92        4.61                        -----------------------------                             27.72        3.87                        -----------------------------                             10.91        2.99                        -----------------------------                             11.89        1.35                        -----------------------------                             14.40        1.19                        -----------------------------                             10.52        2.85                        -----------------------------                             11.97        4.64                        -----------------------------                             15.03        3.40                        -----------------------------                             17.22        1.75                        -----------------------------                             16.10        1.39                        -----------------------------                             12.04        1.88                        -----------------------------                             29.24        8.38                        -----------------------------                             40.32        2.98                        -----------------------------                             10.08        5.60                        -----------------------------                             26.97        3.78                        -----------------------------                             13.16        4.35                        -----------------------------                             10.70        1.67                        -----------------------------                             24.85        2.33                        -----------------------------                             11.85        4.05                        -----------------------------                             23.33        3.48                        -----------------------------     >>     Banro Resource Corporation is a gold exploration and development company with 47 mining concessions encompassing an area of 10,271 square kilometers in the Democratic Republic of The Congo. Banro's common stock is quoted on the Canadian Dealing Network (CDN), under the symbol ''BNRS''. The Company has 13,671,181 common shares issued and outstanding.     -0-                         06/04/98 For further information: on Banro, please visit our Web Site at banro.com  or contact: A.T. Kondrat, Co-Chairman; Michael Nikiforuk, Vice-President, Director; Cliff Jones, Investor Relations; Phone: (416) 366-2221, Fax: (416) 366-7722, Toll-free: 1-800-714-7938; In Johannesburg, S.A. contact: Bernard van Rooyen, President & CEO, Banro Resource Corporation, Phone: 2711 476-5031, Fax: 2711 476-5049  --------------------------------------------------------------------------