Drill Program at Tanzanian Royalty's Kigosi Project Yields New Discovery With High Grade Gold Values

Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation (TSX: TNX) (AMEX: TRE) is pleased to announce that all assay results have been received from the Phase 6 Reverse Circulation (RC) drill program at Kigosi which was completed on June 3, 2008.

The Kigosi drill program continues to generate near-surface, high grade gold values in previously established gold shoots, along with some of the best grades reported to date in new IP/soil anomalies northeast of the Luhwaika area. Among the exceptional gold values reported from this new target area was 3.0 metres grading 22.24 g/t (0.64 oz/t) and 1.0 metre averaging 66.06 g/t (2.0 oz/t).

According to James E. Sinclair, Chairman and CEO, "The new target area adds an entirely new dimension to Kigosi which we intend to advance aggressively in the coming year. As an added bonus, it is highly encouraging to see a continuation of the high grade gold values we are encountering on other parts of the property which I feel is a testament to Kigosi's bulk tonnage potential."

The Phase 6 drill program consisted of 93 holes aggregating 5,933 metres, bringing the total drilled metres at Kigosi to 23,226 in 471 holes. Drilling was conducted along nine control lines, with a central baseline having a strike length of 2.8 kilometres.

Tanzanian Royalty President, John Deane states: "We are particularly encouraged by these initial results on the new targets that were drilled. It confirms our belief that Kigosi represents another large gold belt in the Lake Victoria Goldfields of Tanzania."

The objective of this sixth phase of drilling was to conduct some infill drilling along the drilled-out part of the Luhwaika Main and West Reef systems in order to confirm the continuity of high grade gold shoots tested in previous drill phases.

Due to heavy rains, limited access was available so the Company also drilled three new IP/soil targets 200 metres, 600 metres and 1,300 metres to the northeast of the Luhwaika Main shoot which have a similar trend to Luhwaika Main. Hole spacing was 30 metres. A summary of the better results is presented in the table below:

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Hole No       From       To  Intercept  Gold   Including       Comments
               (m)       (m)    (m)      g/t
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Line 1510N
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KG20RC-379      66       67      1      5.90               Albatross Shoot
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KG20RC-380      90       91      1      1.83              Edge of Albatross
                                                          Shoot
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KG20RC-381      106      107     1     *0.77               Albatross Shoot
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KG20RC-382      120      123     3      4.37   1m @ 12.23  Albatross Shoot
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Line 1850N
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KG20RC-387      78       80      2      1.27                   West Zone
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KG20RC-388      73       77      4      1.78   2m @ 3.09        New Zone
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Line 2350N
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KG20RC-408       8       13      5      1.16   1m @ 3.66      Falcon Shoot
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KG20RC-409      16       21      5      1.11   1m @ 3.77      Falcon Shoot
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KG20RC-411      38       40      2      3.27                 Goshawk Shoot
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KG20RC-412      44       50      6      1.89   1m @ 9.11     Goshawk Shoot
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KG20RC-413      57       59      2      2.45                 Goshawk Shoot
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KG20RC-414      69       71      2      5.17   1m @ 9.90     Goshawk Shoot
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KG20RC-416       2        4      2      1.07                    Gravel
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KG20RC-416      95       97      2      5.29   1m @ 9.68    Bateleur Shoot
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KG20RC-417       2        4      2      7.72   1m @ 14.70       Gravel
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KG20RC-417     107      110      3      2.68   1m @ 8.70    Bateleur Shoot
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Line 2750N
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KG20RC-398       0        1      1      3.42                   Gravel
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Line 3050N
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KG20RC-441      42       43      1      1.03            New IP/Soil target
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KG20RC-457       2        4      2      5.04            New IP Soil target
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KG20RC-462      28       31      3     22.24 1m @ 66.06 New IP/Soil target
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KG20RC-463      63       64      1      4.44           New IP/ Soil target
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Line 3250N
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KG20RC-434      39       40      1      1.29           New IP/Soil target
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Line 4100N
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KG20RC-453      12       13      1      2.76           New IP/Soil target
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* Duplicate run: 2.46g/t.
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The above intersections are estimated to be very close to true thicknesses with all the drill inclinations being -60 degrees and the dip of the reef being -22 degrees. All holes are drilled perpendicular to the assumed strike of the reef(s).

The infill drilling on Luhwaika Main and West reefs has allowed the Company to interpret the high grade shoots as steepening in pitch towards the northwest. This target is now too deep for the Company's in-house RC rig to test and drill tender documents for deeper RC holes have been submitted to all the current drilling companies operating in East Africa. This drilling will hopefully be achieved during the current dry season.

The seventh phase of in-house RC drilling commenced on July 2nd. This phase will include a continuation of infill drilling on the Luhwaika Main and West reefs in areas inaccessible during the wet season. Approximately 10 holes are planned. The rig will then continue drilling out the new IP/soil anomalies to the northeast of Luhwaika. Sixteen holes are planned in these two areas.

The next target is the Igunda artisanal workings some 2.5 kilometres to the southeast of the Luhwaika prospect area. These workings have a strike length of 300 metres and represent a steeply dipping high grade quartz vein (with grab samples up to 50.32g/t gold). IP and soils suggest that this zone extends for approximately 1 kilometre with the possibility of a second zone existing. In total, 120 RC holes have been planned for this area.

A first phase RAB (rotary air blast) program has also been planned for August to test other IP/Soils targets in the larger Luhwaika-Igunda area. This drilling is designed to test shallow CBI (cover/bedrock interface) holes to test the IP and soil anomalies and to basically generate critical geological data. Approximately 700 holes have been planned along 20 line kilometres aggregating some 7,000 metres of drilling.

Analysis

Fire assay with flame AAS finish was conducted by Humac Laboratories in Mwanza. Blanks, Duplicates and Standards were inserted in the sample stream approximately every 20 samples. One batch of blanks returned unfavourable results with the entire batch being outside the acceptable limit for blanks, ranging from 0.03 to 0.12 g/t Au. The duplicates have a correlation coefficient of 58.77%, which is accounted for by the large nugget effect within the sampling. The high value of 66.06 g/t returned a duplicate of 13.90g/t. If this sample is taken out of the statistics, the correlation increases to 87.85%. 2% of the standards fall outside the acceptable 3rd standard deviation. Due to the large nugget effect at Kigosi, to validate the assay results 95% of the high gold samples have been submitted to ALS Chemix lab in Johannesburg, South Africa as an umpire check. This test is currently in progress. The figures used in this press release are the average grades taken for between one and three duplicates run by the labs on each analysis.

Qualified Person

The technical information contained in this document has been reviewed and approved by John Deane, President, Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation Limited, a qualified person as defined by NI 43-101. He has an M.Sc. from the University of Cape Town (1993) and is a registered scientist with SACNASP (Reg. No.400005/05).

Respectfully Submitted,

"James Sinclair"
James E. Sinclair
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

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