Drilling Report

Berkeley Resources Limited
15 December 2006




15 December 2006




                          COMMENCEMENT OF DRILLING



The Directors of Berkeley Resources Limited (AIM: BKY.L) are pleased to advise
that a program of approximately 5,000m of diamond and RC drilling has commenced
on the Company's Salamanca I project, mainly focused on the Retortillo deposit.


Initial drilling at Retortillo is aimed at verifying the assay and geological
integrity of previous drilling, and providing an early assessment of areas where
mineralisation appears to be open, both laterally and at depth. As assessment of
ENUSA's detailed database for the project proceeds, additional drilling will be
aimed at providing the required degree of confidence in the distribution and
geology of the mineralisation that precedes calculation of a JORC compliant
resource.


The Company also expects to mobilise a second drill rig on its Caceres projects
in the New Year, with a further 10,000m of drilling budgeted in that Province.


The technical content of this report has been reviewed and approved by Mr Peter
Ellis, a Member of The Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and an
employee of Berkeley Resources Limited. Mr Ellis has sufficient experience which
is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under
consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a
Competent Person as defined in the 2004 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for
Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves'. Mr Ellis
consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information
in the form and context in which it appears.





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