Cream opens second diamond test

Cream Minerals Ltd. has started work on the Benduma Dyke structure in addition to test production from the Hima Dyke structure on its mining licence on the Sewa River in Sierra Leone. Permits were received in February from the Department of Mines and from the Lugbu Chiefdom to carry out this work. Several infrastructure projects have been completed to enable this, including road reconstruction, bridge repairs and required brush clearing of concession boundaries.

These work programs have been of a direct benefit to the Company in satisfying its requirements for access and movement of equipment, while delivering a large number of jobs to an area that has a high unemployment rate. The result has been a strongly supportive response from local communities on whose lands the project is located. This community support is very important to the Company in its efforts to advance the Sewa work program.

As previously reported, 46 diamonds were recovered in the first four days of operations on the upstream end of the approximately 4-kilometer long river section under licence. The total weight of this parcel of stones is approximately 21.5 carats (cts).

Cream has engaged the services of KPMG partners in Freetown to assist in corporate matters including the registration of Cream Minerals Sewa BVI Ltd and Cream Minerals Offshore BVI Ltd in Sierra Leone. These subsidiaries will hold the earned interest of Cream in the Sewa River and Offshore Exploration Licences in Sierra Leone, respectively.

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