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MGNU News Magnus International Resources Inc. Closes on Mangshi Property Acquisition

On July 26, 2005, Magnus entered into a Letter Agreement (the "Letter Agreement") with First Fortune Investments Inc. to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Golden River Resources Corp., a private British Columbia company ("Golden River"), which is participating in a co-operative joint venture pursuant to an agreement dated August 29, 2003 (the "Mangshi Joint Venture"), between Golden River and Brigade 209 of the Nuclear Industry of Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China ("Team 209").

Under the Mangshi Joint Venture, Golden River and Team 209 formed the sino-foreign joint venture company, Yunnan Western Mining Ltd. ("Western Mining"). The Mangshi Joint Venture gives Golden River the right to earn a 90% interest in a mineral exploration license comprising approximately 113.96 square kilometers. The license is located in the Luxi Gold Belt in the western part of Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China.

Within the Mangshi exploration area are two smaller mining permits where small scale heap leach mining operations are conducted. On October 29, 2005, the Company agreed to purchase these mining permits from Team 209 (from a division of Team 209 known as 209 Geo-brigade of Yunnan Provincial Nuclear Industry, Mangshi Gold Mine) (the "Transfer Agreement"). The existing heap leach operations will continue to be operated by Team 209 under the Transfer Agreement, but only to a maximum depth of 15 meters from the current depth, and only for a maximum period of 2 years (plus 1 year for transition) from the date of execution, and only for resources as defined under the agreement (gold in loose unconsolidated red soil). Magnus maintains an option to purchase the existing estimated resources within the mining license at any time.

The Company will now assume all of Golden River's obligations and benefits under the terms of the Mangshi Joint Venture. The terms of the Mangshi Joint Venture will require the Company to expend, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Golden River, a total of $3,010,000 on the area covered by the Exploration License over a period of roughly four years. The amended Mangshi Joint Venture capital contribution schedule, which was approved by the Yunnan Provincial government, will require the following capital contributions by the following dates: $500,000 by December 31, 2005; an additional $1,000,000 by December 31, 2006, and; an additional $1,510,000 by December 31, 2007. Increments of 30% interest in Western Mining shall be earned for every aggregate of $1,000,000 contributed by the Company. Team 209 will retain a carried interest of 10% in Western Mining upon the completion of the contributions by the Company of the aggregate total of $3,010,000. Further contributions by the Company beyond $3,010,000 will not dilute the 10% carried interest of Team 209.

The Mangshi Property

There is an abundance of geological information already available about the property, and a report on the property, pursuant to Canadian National Instrument 43-101, is available on the Company's website located at www.magnusresources.com. The report was prepared by Ruben S. Verzosa. Mr. Verzosa is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 in Canada and is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia. Mr. Verzosa has also been hired by the Company to assist with the immediate exploration of the Mangshi Property.

The 113.96 square kilometer Joint Venture exploration license comprising the Mangshi Property includes gold prospects within the Luxi Gold Belt. The Luxi Gold Belt is characterized by numerous gold occurrences along a 40km northeasterly geological trend in western Yunnan Province. The Mangshi Property is located 25km southwest of Luxi City, a regional center of approximately 300,000 people and accessible by road and air transportation from several major destinations in China.

The Mangshi Property is chiefly underlain by a Permian dolomitic limestone and Triassic to Jurassic sedimentary units juxtaposed by northeasterly and generally west-dipping normal and reverse faults. There appear to be two styles of gold mineralization at the Mangshi Property. The gold at the two heap leach operations on the property occurs as fine particles in silicified and clay-altered clasts in a breccia-like flat-lying unit at the contact of Permian dolomitic limestone and Jurassic sandstone. The thickness of the breccia unit ranges up to 30 metres. The other style of mineralization comprises pyrite and gold in dominantly silicified and clay-altered fine grained Jurassic sandstone. This latter style of gold mineralization is deemed more significant as it bears resemblance to similar sedimentary rock-hosted gold deposits in neighboring Gizhou Province, which are considered of the "Carlin type" gold deposition model. The Maiwoba and the Guoyan mining leases are inside the Mangshi Property where the Company has the exploration rights below the 1060m and 1110m elevations, respectively.

Exploration Plans for the Mangshi Property

The Company has begun its exploration program at the Mangshi Property. This includes geological mapping, rock sampling, geochemistry, trenching, and test-pitting along with systematic geophysical Induced Polarization surveying. Magnus intends to commence 7,500 meters of diamond drilling in the main identified gold shear zone of the Mangshi Property in December 2005. To date, there has been a great deal of geological testing, of various types, conducted on the Mangshi Property, and thus the Company has a great deal of existing information to draw from.

An environmental baseline study has been initiated, and is planned for completion in December 2005 to establish the environmental status upon commencement of Magnus exploration activity at Mangshi.

The exploration plan for the Mangshi Property comprises three scales of exploration of the property:

-- Local scale exploration along the identified gold shear zone

-- Intermediate scale follow-up trenching

-- District-scale follow-up of stream drainage anomalies in the entire exploration license

Local scale exploration is designed to test the known gold trend within the exploration area defined by gold-mineralized rock and greater than 100 ppb gold in soil. The identified gold trend is covered by the 113.96 sq km exploration license (covered by the Mangshi Joint Venture) and the mining permits within the Mangshi exploration area (the two smaller permits within the exploration area recently acquired by Magnus).

Testing along the identified gold trend will comprise of additional detailed mapping and sampling of mineralized rock and identified breccia zones, as well as the pit floors from the small-scale oxide ore mining operations. A 30 line kilometer dipole-dipole Induced Polarization (IP) geophysical survey of the gold trend is currently being executed by the Yunnan Institute of Geophysics and Geochemistry. The IP survey is being utilized to identify zones of sulphides (pyrite) and zones of silicification along the depth extent of the northwest-dipping fault and shear zones believed to control gold mineralization in the area. Initial drill targets have already been identified based on the mapping, sampling, and geophysical surveying completed to date. The 7,500 meter diamond core drill program is expected to test the depth extent of the Maiwoba - Guoyuan - Mulingba gold trend.

Drill core sawing and core sample preparation equipment has been purchased to support the core drilling and sampling program, and facilities are in the process of being set up on site for the work.

Intermediate and district scale exploration programs involve trench sampling in other target areas where gold soil geochemical anomalies have been identified, and soil survey follow-up of stream drainage gold anomalies within the exploration license area.

ABOUT MAGNUS INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES, INC.

Magnus International Resources, Inc. is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties, focusing primarily on gold and copper properties in China. Magnus retains a potential earn-in 90% interest in two joint venture companies with its Chinese partner Yunnan Province Nuclear Industry Brigade 209 ("Team 209"): Yunnan Long Teng Mining Ltd. which holds the Huidong property and Yunnan Western Mining Ltd. which holds the Mangshi property.

Huidong is a gold-copper prospect in Sichuan Province northwest of, and on trend with, Southwestern Resources' Boka gold project in Yunnan Province. Southwestern Resources has recently reported a preliminary combined indicated and inferred resource at the Boka project of 5.4 million ounces of gold. Investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent properties are not necessarily indicative of mineral deposits on Magnus' properties. Infill sampling, trenching, and tunneling are being conducted at Huidong to follow up three highly anomalous gold zones identified by comprehensive soil and rock geochemistry surveys.

The Mangshi property is located within the Luxi Gold Belt, a 40km geological trend in western Yunnan province. Work-to-date has outlined a potentially large gold-mineralized zone with simple geology and near-surface mineralization allowing for the near-term commencement of a 7,500m drilling program. The confirmation of the downward extension of the gold mineralization already outlined at the surface would strongly indicate an emerging model of a potentially large sediment-hosted gold deposit of the "Carlin" type.

For further information please refer to the Company's filings with the SEC on EDGAR or refer to Magnus' website at www.magnusresources.com.

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FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This news release may include "forward-looking statements" regarding Magnus International Resources, Inc., and its subsidiaries, business and project plans. Such forward looking statements are within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and section 21E of the United States Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are intended to be covered by the safe harbor created by such sections. Where Magnus expresses or implies an expectation or belief as to future events or results, such expectation or belief is believed to have a reasonable basis. However, forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed, projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks include, but are not limited to price volatility of gold and other metals; currency fluctuations; political, operational, and governmental approval and regulation risks in China. For a more detailed discussion of such risks and other factors, please see "Risk Factors" in our Form 10-K for our most recently completed fiscal year, on file with the SEC at www.sec.gov. This document also contains information about adjacent properties on which Magnus has no rights to explore or mine. Investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent properties are not necessarily indicative of mineral deposits on Magnus' properties.