Diamond Results

Sunrise Diamonds PLC
13 June 2006



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13th June 2006


                           'BEST YET' DIAMOND RESULTS

                  FROM LATEST KIMBERLITE DISCOVERY IN FINLAND


• Five Micro-diamonds Recovered From A 10kg Sample

• Three Of Seven Kimberlites Discovered Now With Confirmed Micro-Diamonds


Sunrise Diamonds plc ('Sunrise' or 'the Company') is pleased to announce the
recovery of five micro-diamonds from a 10kg sample from the newly discovered
'Lampi' kimberlite in the Kuusamo cluster in northern Finland.


The five micro-diamonds, all fragments, have longest dimensions between 0.25 and
0.41mm. They were recovered from a sample of kimberlite taken from a vertical
drill hole at a depth between 48.10 and 55.30m after caustic dissolution at the
independent Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc. laboratory in Canada (Accredited
to ISO/IEC 17025).


Commenting today, Sunrise Chairman, Mr Patrick Cheetham, said: 'This result is
our best yet from what is emerging to be an exciting new kimberlite field.'


The Lampi discovery ('Lampi' is Finnish for 'small lake') was announced in March
2006 and is the seventh kimberlite discovered by the Company in the Kuusamo
region and the third to be confirmed as diamondiferous.


Logging of the Lampi discovery drill hole has shown that two phases of
kimberlite are present beneath about 15m of glacial till. From 15m to 48m the
discovery hole passed through a kimberlite breccia (a 10kg sample of which did
not contain any micro-diamonds) before entering the diamondiferous kimberlite
phase which continues to the end of the hole at 55m.


The Company is currently reviewing sampling results from all of the new
discoveries in order to prioritise the kimberlites for further larger-scale
sampling and to better indicate the commercial diamond potential of its new
discoveries. The Company is also completing the planning of further work
programmes to follow up kimberlite indicator mineral anomalies generated from
the BHP Billiton database acquired by agreement with BHP Billiton in December
2005.



Further Info: Patrick Cheetham, Sunrise Diamonds plc. Tel: [phone].
Mob: [phone]

John Greenhalgh/Ron Marshman, City of London PR Ltd. Tel: +44 ( 0)20-7628-5518



The information in this release has been compiled and reviewed by Mr. Patrick
Cheetham (MIMMM, MAusIMM) who is a qualified person for the purposes of the AIM
Guidance Note for Mining Oil & Gas Companies issued on March 16, 2006. Mr
Cheetham is a Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining and also a
member of the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy.






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