Company Information for Centamin Egypt Ltd

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Company Statement

Centamin Egypt Limited is a mineral exploration company, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:CNT), the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM:CEY) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:CEE).

Centamin has been exploring for gold in Egypt since 1995, and in 2005 was granted a 160km 2 exploitation lease over the massive Sukari Hill gold project.

The current resource at Sukari is 8.56 million ounces Measured and Indicated, and 3.2 million ounces Inferred, with ongoing drilling expected to add significantly to this resource.

A feasibility study to upgrade the project to a 4-5 million tonne per year operation was completed in February 2007.

Construction is underway with completion estimated for the second quarter of 2009.
 

Current Operations

Sukari Gold Project
The Company's activities are focused on increasing the geological resource and bringing the Sukari gold project into production.

A feasibility study to upgrade the project to a 4-5 million tonne per year operation was completed in February 2007.

Exploration is being carried out on the areas adjacent to and surrounding the Sukari Hill porphyry.

Also contained within the 160 km 2 Sukari lease are a number of other occurrences and old workings, the most significant being:

Um Kola - Sabahiya - Kurdaman and Sukari East

Geographical Spread

Egypt

Board of Directors and Key Management

Mr Josef El-Raghy	Managing Director/CEO
Mr Sami El-Raghy	Chairman
Mr Colin Cowden	Non-Executive Director
Mr G Brian Speechly	Non-Executive Director
Dr Thomas Elder	Non-Executive Director
Mr H Stuart Bottomley	Non-Executive Director
Mr Trevor Stanley Schultz	Non-Executive Director

Company Address 57 Kishorn Road Mt Pleasant, WA, Australia 6153 Telephone: + 61 8 9316 2640 Facsimile: + 61 8 9316 2650 Email: centamin[at]centamin.com.au Website: http://www.centamin.com

Additional Address/Key Contact Pharaoh Gold Mines NL 361 El-Horreya Road, Sedi Gaber Alexandria, Egypt. Telephone: (203) 54 11259 Facsimile: (203) 52 26350 Email: pgm@centamin.com.au

Capital Number of securities on issue - 877,419,163

Annual General Meeting November

Year End June 30

Nominated Brokers Ambrian Partners Limited 128 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4BJ Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7776 6417 Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7748 7602 76 Thomas Wiesel Partners 17 Old Park Lane 7th Floor London W1K 1QT Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7290 9700 Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7290 9708

Nominated Advisors Ambrian Partners Limited 128 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4BJ Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7776 6417 Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7748 7602 76

Broker/Analyst Reports

26/04/07 - Westwind Partners

Major Shareholders

CDS & Co	(35.70%)
El-Raghy Family	(9.02%)
Pershing Keen Nominees Limited	(4.04%)
Chase Nominees Limited	(3.11%)

Related News

18/11/08 - Centamin’s Unique Position In Egypt Puts A Potentially Greater Value On It Remaining Independent
06/05/08 - Delays At Sukari Unlikely To Put Off The Majors Eyeing Centamin Egypt
22/10/07 - Centamin Goes For Grade At Depth
03/05/07 - Centamin Egypt Uses Old Plant For New Mine

Most Recent Statement

31/10/08 - Quarterly Report
15/10/08 - Resource Upgrade Drilling Report
15/08/08 - CHANGES TO BOARD COMPOSITION
30/07/08 - QUARTERLY REPORT FOR THE QUARTER ENDED JUNE 30, 2008 AND RESOURCE UPGRADE
21/07/08 - FORMER AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR TO EGYPT APPOINTED TO BOARD
20/05/08 - APPOINTMENT OF NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR