Drilling Program Starts at the Aurelian Condor Project.

TORONTO -- Aurelian Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ARU) is pleased to announce the start of the 2005 exploration drilling program at its Condor project in southeastern Ecuador.

Keith Barron, Vice President of Exploration says "Our latest surveys indicate that many of our individual gold prospects are on the flanks of continuous geophysical trends. In the core area of the concessions we should think in terms of big structures and not isolated gold zones. Some of these resistivity-chargeability anomalies are over 4 km in length and we haven't found the ends of them yet."

The first diamond drill holes are designed to test an area of high resistivity and chargeability coincident with a 600 metre wide conventional gold-in-soils and MMI geochemical anomaly. This is a prominent ridge where ridge and spur soil sampling has returned up to 1.4 gpt gold in soils. The area also represents a step out 300 metres south-southeast along the trend of the Bonza-Penas deposit where Aurelian previously released an inferred mineral resource of 517,100 oz of gold at a grade of 1.07 gpt over a strike length of 725 metres (PR 14-12-04). Previously the best intersection from diamond drilling at the Bonza-Penas deposit was 2.31 gpt gold over 101 metres (PR 08-04-04).

This program will consist of 6,000 metres of diamond drilling over a minimum of 40 holes and will test numerous geophysical trends (chargeability, resistivity and magnetics) which are coincident with favourable geology and geochemistry over the core concession area of 1,200 hectares.

Two CAT 320 excavators are carrying out concurrent trenching programs in the core concession at proposed drill sites. Trenches excavated to date have intersected significant zones of quartz veining, hydrothermal alteration and sulphides.

Resistivity, chargeability and magnetic survey images can be viewed at http://www.aurelian.ca

Stephen Leary, MAusIMM is acting as Qualified Person in compliance with National Instrument 43-101 with respect to this release. He has reviewed the contents for accuracy.

About Aurelian:

Aurelian Resources Inc. is a publicly-listed (TSX-V:ARU) junior resource company engaged in the business of exploring for, with the ultimate goal of developing and producing, precious and/or base metals from its properties located in southeastern Ecuador which consists of 38 mining concessions totaling approximately 95,000 hectares.

Forward Looking Statement:

The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release. Some of the statements contained herein may be forward-looking statements which involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Without limitation, statements regarding potential mineralization and resources, exploration results, and future plans and objectives of the Company are forward looking statements that involve various degrees of risk. The following are important factors that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements: changes in the world wide price of mineral commodities, general market conditions, risks inherent in mineral exploration, risks associated with development, construction and mining operations, the uncertainty of future profitability and the uncertainty of access to additional capital.

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