Environmental approval

Centamin Egypt Limited
02 May 2007

                             Centamin Egypt Limited
                         ('Centamin' or 'the Company')



                        Environmental Approval Obtained




Centamin Egypt Limited is delighted to announce that it has received today
Environmental Approval from the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) for
the Sukari Gold Project. The EEAA accepted, without amendment, the Environmental
and Social Impact Assessment, submitted by the company in February 2007.

The Company is delighted with the rapid turnaround of this approval and the
co-operation shown by the EEAA and the Egyptian Mineral Resource Authority.

The first civil works contractor arrived on site at Sukari on 1 May to prepare
the construction camp pad and grade the access road from the highway to the
project site. As outlined in the recent quarterly report, work continues on
schedule with the dismantling of the Kori Kollo processing plant in Bolivia and
the recently acquired 28MW power station in Turkey.

The project remains on track for first production in the 3rd quarter of 2008.




For Centamin Egypt Limited


Josef El-Raghy
Managing Director/CEO

26 April 2007














For more information please contact:

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Josef El-Raghy (           Maxine Barnes / Nick Rome
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Information in this report which relates to exploration, geology, sampling and
drilling is based on information compiled by geologist Mr R Osman who is a full
time employee of the Company, and is a member of the Australasian Institute of
Mining and Metallurgy with more than five years experience in the fields of
activity being reported on, and is a 'Competent Person' for this purpose. His
written consent has been received by the Company for this information to be
included in this report in the form and context which it appears.


The information in this report that relates to mineral resources is based on
work completed by Mr Nicolas Johnson, who is a Member of the Australian
Institute of Geoscientists. Mr Johnson is a full time employee of Hellman and
Schofield Pty Ltd and 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 Johnson 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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