Apr 25, 2007

Exploraiton drilling accelerates at bambari as feasibility drilling winds down at passendro, central african republic

Toronto, Ontario – Apr 25, 07, AXMIN Inc. (AXM-TSX Venture) is encouraged by the on-going drilling program at its Bambari property in the Central African Republic. Favourable gold assays received from the program suggest that mining may extend well below the 50-60 metres depth originally planned for the Main Zone open pit. The gold assay results of 5.7 g/t Au over 10.5 metres, 4.2 g/t Au over 20.5 metres and 32.0 g/t Au over 3.0 metres show that higher grades persist at depth. In addition, recent work on the adjacent Bakala Permit suggests that the first steps in identifying a new gold district have been made. Management is extremely satisfied with these developments, in advance of a trip being organized for mining analysts at the beginning of May 2007.

Chief Executive Officer, Dr Jonathan Forster comments "Drilling at Main Zone has confirmed that as previously envisaged, there is real potential to extend resources below the current pit floor. Moreover, the identification of these mineralised shoots provides the opportunity to test for gold mineralisation at even deeper levels in the future. With feasibility drilling now coming to an end our focus can once again turn to the upside exploration potential of the Bambari-Bakala Belt, with multiple targets ready for drill testing and with the objective of ultimately both extending project life and expanding project size. Moreover, the initial results from Bakala emphasise the excellent prospectivity of this belt."

Main Zone Depth Extension Drilling

A 7,500 metre core drilling program (see press release November 22, 2006) testing for resources to vertical depths of 100 to 120 metres is nearing completion at the 1,500 metre long Main Zone, which currently hosts an indicated resource of 548,400 ozs (9.06 Mt grading 1.9 g/t Au) and within which 36% of the Passendro probable reserve of 1.1 mozs (being 13.74 Mt grading 2.6 g/t Au) (announced May 10, 2006) is derived. In addition, there is an inferred mineral resource of 551,400 ozs (10.89 Mt grading 1.6 g/t Au). At least four parallel mineralised structures (footwall and hanging wall) have been targeted within the central 900 metres of the zone. Results received to date indicate good potential for the open pit to be deepened from the typical 50-60 metre depth used in the pre-feasibility study to include mineralisation on each of the structures. Moreover, the deeper drilling is highlighting the geometry of multiple shoots (see attached figure) which remain open to depth and warrant further drilling to define additional open pit resources.

Deeper drilling is also required beneath both the northern 600 metres of the Main Zone where scout holes have indicated the potential for economic mineralisation (Hole PDC 339 intercepted 8.4 g/t Au over 4.5 metres from 106 metres depth), and a 500 metre strike length of Main Zone South which to date has only been drilled to 30-40 metres depth. This will form part of an ongoing "brownfield" exploration drill program scheduled to continue through the year. This program will also test deeper extensions to the other Passendro deposits in particular Katsia and French Camp where higher grade mineralised shoots are open to depth.

Results from this phase of the drilling are summarized (excluding results reported November 22, 2006):

* Hole ended in mineralisation

Exploration – 15 km Radius of Passendro

Exploration in 2006 / early 2007 focused on the delineation and selected scout drilling of new drill targets using shallow (maximum 30 metre vertical depth) reverse circulation ("RC") drilling to identify mineralised zones for follow up core drilling scheduled to take place once rigs become available from the Passendro geotechnical and feasibility drilling programs. This exploration has incorporated work at the Ndassima, Ao and Mbourou project areas where more than 10 significant soil anomalies (threshold >50 ppb Au over strike length typically >500 metres) are now awaiting first pass drilling. Of these, Ndassima West (Ndassima Grid) and Saraganza (Ao Grid) scout drilling has commenced with positive results. From experience elsewhere at Passendro, scout drilling is a good indicator of the location of the gold structure but very variable near surface gold values are expected, any zone >0.5 g/t Au is considered significant.

Saraganza; to date 350 metres of strike within a 1,200 metre long anomaly (>100ppb Au threshold) has been scout tested by angled RC drilling, typically to vertical depths of only 20-30 metres. The drilling has identified a continuous zone of strongly anomalous (>0.5 g/t Au) gold mineralisation that is open both to the north and south. The zone, which is up to 40 metres wide, comprises multiple mineralised structures with near surface intercepts that include 4.5 g/t Au over 6 metres (ARC 056) and 7.7 g/t Au over 5 metres (ARC 046).

Ndassima West; to date a mineralised structure of 120 metres strike length (open in all directions) has been identified through scout drilling to maximum vertical depths of 25 metres, within an anomaly (>50 ppb Au threshold) of 800 metres length. The structure at surface so far has an approximate true width of 15-20 metres with the near surface grades typically ranging from 1.0-1.9 g/t Au, with one intercept from surface of 3.5 g/t Au over 8 metres (NRC 121).

Exploration – 30 km radius of Passendro

Two initial drill targets have been identified at the Louba Grid, where soil geochemistry (threshold >100 ppb Au) and geological mapping has outlined a priority zone >800 metres in strike length at the head of drainages that were exploited by the French during the Colonial period and are presently being worked by a small number of local artisans.

Bakala Permit

The 1,000 sq km Bakala Permit is located to the north and contiguous with the Bambari Permits. Airborne magnetic data shows that two Banded Ironstone Formations ("BIF") extend from the Bambari Permits across the Bakala Permit for distances of at least 20 km and 36 km respectively. Reconnaissance ground exploration over the more westerly BIF belt has recently been completed, resulting in the identification of a previously unrecognised 30 km long gold district using a combination of stream sediment and soil sampling programs, as well as the identification of active artisanal gold workings in streams within the area.

The results of the broad spaced (800 metre line spacing) soil geochemistry program covering a strike length of 9 km of the western BIF belt has highlighted a zone of gold in soil anomalies some 4.9 km long (at the 20 ppb level and above) which overlay an upland area of BIFs similar to the Passendro area. Infill and extension to the north of this soil geochemical program is planned.

Analytical work is being carried out at the independent OMAC Laboratories Ltd. in Ireland. The samples are subject to a full sample preparation followed by a 50 gram fire assay with an AA finish. Blanks (5%), pulp duplicates (5%) and a suite of Geostats standard reference material are being used to monitor sample preparation and laboratory performance during first pass analysis. Further QA/QC work is carried out on a quarterly basis. This comprises check assaying 20% of all >500 ppb samples using prepped coarse reject samples at OMAC and a second laboratory. Check assay batches are also routinely monitored using 5% blanks, standards and pulp duplicates. This press release has been reviewed by in-house qualified person Dr Jonathan Forster, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in the United Kingdom.

AXMIN is a mineral exploration company with a strong focus on gold in highly prospective properties across central and west Africa. For more information regarding AXMIN visit our website at www.axmininc.com.

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