VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/22/12 -- Samaranta Mining Corporation (TSX VENTURE: SAX) ("the Company" or "Samaranta ") announces that further to the Company's press release of September 21, 2011 wherein the Company announced it had effectively acquired an 80% interest in the Siguiri property in Guinea West Africa (the "Property"), the Company has entered into an agreement with Siguiri Mining Guinea Ltd. ("SMG") wherein SMG may acquire Samaranta's effective 80% interest in the Property. Samaranta holds its effective 80% interest in the Property by virtue of its 100% ownership of Guinean Global Resources SA ("GGR"), a Guinean corporation that owns an 80% interest in Group Guinea Investment SA ("GGI"), a second Guinea company which in turn owns the Property. SMG is a wholly owned subsidiary of Siguiri Gold Mining Corp. ("SGMC"), a private Ontario corporation.

GGR has 2,000 authorized and issued shares and its sole asset is its 80% shareholding interest in GGI, and therefore an 80% interest in the Property. As such, each GGR share represents a 0.04% interest in GGI and therefore the Property. As set forth below, SMG will acquire ownership of GGR upon making US$125,000 in cash payments, delivering 1,500,000 SGMC shares(2) issued in the name of Samaranta, and completing US$2,500,000 in exploration. SMG's acquisition of the GGR shares is staged in four tranches. To crystallize SMG's earned interest in GGR, Samaranta shall transfer to SMG the required number of GGR shares upon completion of each vesting milestone, as follows:

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                                                      Cumula-
                                         SMG            tive
               SMG         SGMC          US$     GGR     GGR
               US$        Share         Work  Shares  Shares  Cumulative
           Payment     Issuance    Completed  Issued  Issued  ownership
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On signing 125,000(1)   100,000                   70          SMG will own
                                                              3.5% of GGR
                                                              representing
                                                              a 2.8%
                                                              interest in
                                                              GGI/the
                                                              Property
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1st                     200,000      500,000     280     350  SMG will own
 Anniversary                                                  17.5% of GGR
                                                              representing
                                                              a 14%
                                                              interest in
                                                              GGI/the
                                                              Property
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2nd                     200,000    1,000,000     630     980  SMG will own
 Anniversary                                                  49% of GGR
                                                              representing
                                                              a 39.2%
                                                              interest in
                                                              GGI/the
                                                              Property
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3rd                   1,000,000(2) 1,000,000(3) 1,020   2,000 SMG will own
 Anniversary                                                  100% of GGR
                                                              representing
                                                              an 80%
                                                              interest in
                                                              GGI/the
                                                              Property
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           125,000    1,500,000    2,500,000   2,000
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1.  The payment due on signing is US$125,000 plus costs associated with the
    acquisition of the Property, such acquisition costs not to exceed
    US$75,000
2.  At SMG's sole option this payment may be either US$1,000,000 or
    1,000,000 SGMC shares
3.  SMG is also required to complete a technical report that complies with
    NI 43-101

In addition, prior to or concurrent with the final payment, Samaranta will be granted a 2% NSR on the Property, one-half of which (1% NSR) may be purchased at any time by SMG for US$1,000,000.

In the event that SMG fails to make cash payments, deliver SGMC Shares to be issued to Samaranta, incur expenditures or otherwise comply with any requirements (the "SMG option requirements") within the defined time periods, SMG will have 30 days following receipt of notice of default to cure such default, failing which the Option, to the extent of any then-unexercised tranche of the Option, shall automatically terminate. SMG may terminate the agreement by providing written notice of termination. SMG shall be entitled to keep all GGR shares which it has paid for up to the effective date of termination.

"This transaction allows Samaranta to build its asset base while continuing to focus on its core Colombian properties," stated Volkmar Hable, President and CEO of Samaranta.

The Siguiri Property

The Property lies immediately south of Block 4 and just to the east of Block 3, both of which represent two of four concessions that comprised AngloGold Ashanti's Siguiri Mine (the "AGA's Guinea Mine"). AGA's Guinea Mine is located in north-east Guinea approximately 850 km from the capital city of Conakry. Mineralization occurs in Paleoproterozoic Birimian rocks consisting of turbidite and lesser volcanicalstic sequences and is structurally controlled and occurs as sheeted veins or within shear zones. Weathering occurs to depths of 100 metres with two types of oxide mineralization are present: elluvioal or alluvial-hosted laterite mineralization and primary quartz vein related or shear hosted mineralization.

Technical information in this news release has been reviewed by Derrick Strickland, P.Geo., a qualified person as defined in NI 43-101.

SAMARANTA MINING CORPORATION

Volkmar Hable, President

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