Mr. Alex Bugden reports

SORRENTO RESOURCES IDENTIFIES 2.25KM ANOMALOUS COPPER IN SOIL TREND, LORD BARON PROJECT, NEWFOUNDLAND

Sorrento Resources Ltd. has released the results of the large-scale soil geochemical sampling from its 100-per-cent-owned Lord Baron property located in Newfoundland, Canada.

Alex Bugden, PGeo, chief executive officer, president and qualified person of Sorrento, commented: "We are very excited with the results of our summer soil sampling program. To have a soil anomaly over two km in strike length is very promising and provides us with an area of focus for geophysical surveys and diamond drilling. In addition, the strong correlation between the soil anomalies, geological structures and historical geophysical anomalies validates soil sampling as an appropriate method of exploration for the property. The historic drilling being oriented away from the heart of the soil anomaly is also very intriguing."

Highlights:

• Several trends of anomalous copper mineralization identified (up to approximately 2.25 kilometres in strike length);
• Soil anomalies are coincident with geological structures and historical geophysical anomalies;
• Historical drilling is oriented away from soil anomalies;
• 1,005 soil samples collected over four separate grids;
• Largest soil sample program ever undertaken on the property;
• 101 samples are considered anomalous in copper (greater than 102.6 parts per million copper, 90th percentile);
• 51 samples are considered anomalous in gold (greater than 23.8 parts per billion gold, 95th percentile).

Little Bay head grid

Several trends of anomalous copper mineralization have been identified with one having a strike length of approximately 2.25 km and a width of up to approximately 175 metres. The anomalies identified are coincident with mapped geological structures. Locally, there are also overlapping historical geophysical anomalies. Moreover, the historical drilling appears to be drilling away from the anomalous soil trend. The Little Bay head grid consisted of 667 soil samples at an approximate spacing of 150 by 50 m. This grid completely overlaps four historic soil sampling grids. A total of 77 samples are considered anomalous in copper (greater than 102.6 ppm) with the highest value being 2,140 ppm Cu. There are 34 samples considered anomalous in gold (greater than 23.8 ppb) with the highest value being 223 ppb Au.

Ferndale and Swatridge grid

An anomalous area approximately 750 m by 500 m, which is open to the south and to the east, has been identified. The Ferndale and Swatridge grid consisted of 86 soil samples at a spacing of approximately 100 by 250 m. The grid covers the Ferndale mineral occurrence and is just to the east of the Swatridge mineral occurrence. In addition, it overlaps an east-west fault structure, which locally has anomalous copper in historical stream sediment samples. This was the first soil sampling program in the immediate area. There are eight samples considered anomalous in copper (greater than 102.6 ppm Cu) with the highest value being 731 ppm Cu. There are six samples considered anomalous in gold (greater than 23.8 ppb) with the highest value being 159 ppb Au.

About the Lord Baron project

The Lord Baron project is located on the Springdale peninsula, Newfoundland and Labrador, near the towns of Springdale, Little Bay and Beachside. The region has a rich mining history and is host to a skilled work force, several diamond drilling contractors, a National Instrument 43-101-compliant assay lab, and mining equipment and parts suppliers. In addition, it is adjacent to deepwater ports and an industrial hydroelectric power supply, and is in proximity to the Nugget Pond mill.

The project consists of 15 individual mineral licences made up of 256 individual claims for an area of 6,400 hectares. The project is predominantly underlain by rocks of the Lush's Bight group of the tectonostratigraphic Dunnage zone of the Appalachian orogen. The Lush's Bight group is a Cambro-Ordovician sequence of ophiolitic metavolcanic rocks representing a portion of the oceanic crust of the proto-Atlantic Ocean in the Iapetus Sea. The group has been metamorphosed to greenschist facies, and has undergone extensive faulting related to the initial formation of oceanic crust, as well as the Taconic and Acadian orogenies.

The Lush's Bight group contains more base metal sulphide showings per square kilometre than any other group of rocks in Newfoundland. The showings typically occur in an envelope of chlorite schist.

Qualified person

Alex Bugden, PGeo, a qualified person in accordance with National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this press release.

About Sorrento Resources Ltd.

Sorrento Resources is engaged in acquisition, exploration and development of mineral property assets in Canada. The company's objective is to locate and develop economic precious and base metal properties of merit, including Wing Pond, Lord Baron, the PEG lithium project and the Harmsworth (volcanogenic massive sulphide) project, all located in Newfoundland.

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