Drilling Begins at Caijiaying

Griffin Mining Ld
08 January 2004

                             Griffin Mining Limited

                                8th January 2004

                   GOLD & ZINC DRILLING BEGINS AT CAIJIAYING


Griffin Mining Limited ('Griffin') is extremely pleased to announce that
dewatering and expansion of the drilling access and ventilation decline at
Griffin's Caijiaying zinc-gold-silver project in China has been successfully
completed as planned.



Consequently, underground drilling to define and discover additional gold and
zinc resources has now commenced.



Mladen Ninkov, Chairman, commented as follows:



'Now that the construction of significant underground facilities have been
completed at Caijiaying, Griffin has been able to begin underground drilling to
further enhance both Griffin's gold and zinc resource.  Caijiaying has never
disappointed in this respect and Griffin expects no change to this trend with
the current drilling programme.'






Further information



Mladen Ninkov - Chairman                       Telephone: [phone]



Roger Goodwin - Finance Director               Telephone: [phone]



Charles Dampney - Charles Stanley              Telephone: [phone]




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