Zinc/Silver Drilling Programme Started in Sweden

Tertiary Minerals PLC
6 April 2000

                      TERTIARY MINERALS PLC                               
                                                               

          TERTIARY STARTS DRILLING PROGRAMME IN SWEDEN
          TO TEST FOR EXTENSIONS OF ZINC/SILVER DEPOSIT
                                
                                
 Twelve Diamond Drill Holes Planned
  
 Results Should Be Known During May



AIM-listed  Tertiary  Minerals  plc  announces  that  a  diamond
drilling  programme is now underway at its Windfall  zinc/silver
project  50km  NE of the Garpenberg base metal  mine  in  south-
central  Sweden.   The main objectives of the current programme,
consisting of about 12 holes, are to extend the areas  of  known
high-grade   mineralisation  at  the  Vindfall   and  Sortarnan
prospects which lie along strike from each other, 1.5km apart.

Executive Chairman Mr. Patrick Cheetham said today:    'We  will
be  drilling a number of geophysical (IP) anomalies along strike
from,  and semi-parallel to the main zinc zones as well  as  for
immediate extensions of known mineralisation to the NNE of  each
prospect.'

Drilling will continue throughout April with results expected to
be known next month.



Further information:     

Patrick Cheetham, Chairman
Tertiary Minerals Plc
Tel:[phone]

Ron Marshman or Ken Gooding
City of London PR
Tel: [phone]