Endeavour Completes Ouaré Drilling and Commences Resource Update for Pea

VANCOUVER, June 27, 2012 /CNW/ - Endeavour Mining Corporation ("Endeavour") (TSX:EDV, ASX:EVR, OTCQX:EDVMF) today announced drill results from its recently concluded program on its Ouaré gold deposit in Burkina Faso and commencement of an updated resource estimate in preparation for a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA). The Ouaré gold deposit is located 40 kilometres northwest of Endeavour's Youga plant (Figure 1), which currently produces in excess of 80,000 ozs of gold annually.

Highlights of the infill drilling program on Ouaré Main include (Table 1);

• BITDDH-11-024 with 9.2m @ 6.6g/t including 0.8m @ 20.2g/t gold
• BITDDH-12-027 with 7.2m @ 4.9g/t including 1.8m @ 9.0g/t gold

Results from infill RC drilling on Ouaré East include (Table 2);

• BITRC-12-421 with 8m @ 4.1g/t including 2.4m @ 9.2g/t gold

Step-out RC drilling along the western extension of the Ouaré trend has also yielded positive results including (Table 3);

• BITRC-12-380 with 6m @ 6.4 g/t including 2m @ 18.1g/t gold
• BITRC-12-389 with 5m @ 2.6 g/t including 1m @ 11.3g/t gold and 3m @ 10.9g/t gold including 1m @ 31.0g/t gold

Ouaré currently has an inferred mineral resource of 4.738 Mt at 2.1 g/t gold for 323,000 ounces at a 0.5 g/t gold cut-off (K. Woodman, 2009).  During 2011 and the first four months of 2012 an infill and step-out drilling program was undertaken on the Ouaré gold deposit that included 56 core holes (6,968 metres) and 192 reverse-circulation (RC) holes (21,759 metres).  This drilling consists of both RC and core on the Ouaré Main and Ouaré East zones with the objective of improving the geological model and upgrading the resource classification. In addition, step-out drilling was undertaken on three targets in the Ouaré West zone. Results are pending for approximately 40% of these holes.

Figure 1: Youga Belt Location Map

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Ouaré Main and East Infill Drilling

The deposit is over two kilometres long and had been nominally tested on 50 metre spaced sections to a maximum depth of 100 metres.  The current program has reduced the drill hole spacing to 25 by 20 metres (Figure 2) and tested depths down to at least 150 metres depth on selected sections of the Ouaré Main and Ouaré East zones.

Based on the RC drilling there is also potential to add resources in the area between Ouaré Main and Ouaré East, which was not included in the 2009 estimate.

The completion of the core drilling has led to a much better understanding of the style and controls on mineralization at Ouaré. Gold is intimately associated with fine pyrite, although the sulphide content is relatively low and rarely exceeds 2%.  Mineralization is also associated with quartz-veining, silicification and a pervasive carbonate alteration. The host rock varies between fine-grained sedimentary and volcanic rocks.  A petrographic study has been initiated to improve the understanding of the character of the gold and the controls on the mineralization.

Soil geochemistry (Figure 2) and ground geophysics (IP) supports the known mineralized trends and highlights several of the structural features that control mineralization or displace the deposit (Figure 3).

Figure 2: Ouaré Drill Plan on Gold in Soil Geochemistry

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Figure 3: Ouaré Main and Ouaré East Drill Plan on IP Chargeability

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Table 1: Ouaré Main Infill Core and RC Drilling Highlights

Table 2: Ouaré East Infill RC Drilling Highlights

Ouaré West Step-out Drilling

Step-out RC drilling along western extensions of the Ouaré trend has yielded positive results in several locations that are not fully delineated. The southern-western zone is over is over 1.5 km long and has been drilled at a wide spacing; portions of the mineralization is this area will be included in the upcoming resource estimate while the other areas require additional drilling.

Table 3: Ouaré West Exploration RC Drilling Highlights (True widths unknown at this time)

New Targets

The region surrounding Ouaré shows good potential for discovery of additional gold mineralization. Accordingly, the drill program included stepping out and testing zones located on two adjacent permits, two targets on Bitou Est and two targets on Bitou Nord.  All four targets are within six kilometres of Ouaré Main (Figure 1).

Airborne Geophysical Survey

An airborne geophysical survey was recently completed over the Youga greenstone belt, northeast of the Nakambe River, covering the Bitou 2 permit and the adjacent Endeavour permits. The coverage includes both aeromagnetic and radiometric data using a flight line spacing of 100 metres with a tie-line spacing of 500 metres at a nominal altitude of 45 metres. The survey was flown by Terrascan Airborne with the purpose of providing the same level of information that has proven useful over the Youga permits.

The new data will be utilized in conjunction with soil geochemistry and prospecting to follow up structural and geochemical targets for the remainder of the Youga belt.

Resource Estimation

Drilling is now complete and work is underway to complete logging, sampling, assaying, data compilation and QAQC review to prepare for an independent resource estimation by AMEC Americas Limited (AMEC), a leading international engineering and project management company. This resource estimate is planned to begin in early July, following the receipt of the remainder of the assay results.

Metallurgical Testwork

Initial metallurgical studies were completed on 6 composites from three areas of the Ouaré Main and Ouaré East zones.  The testwork was carried out by SGS Vancouver ("SGS") in preparation for commencement of the PEA.  The results were reviewed by AMEC process specialists.  The composites include oxidized and fresh mineralization as well as sedimentary and volcanics as host rock to mineralization.  Testwork included screen metallics, work indices (Crusher Work Index, Bond ball mill, Bond rod mill), gravity recoverable gold, and leachability by bottle rolls.  The samples were prepared to P80 of 150 micron and the recovery of gold to gravity concentrate ranged from 2 to 37%.  Bottle roll leach results yielded recoveries of 75 to 90% of the gravity tails gold content.  A second round of samples was reground to P80 of 75 micron and the calculated recovery was 84 to 95% of the gravity tails gold content.  The preliminary interpretation of the testwork indicates the amenability of the mineralization as a feed to a conventional gravity/CIL plant such as at Youga.  Leach tests on coarse material suggest that the mineralization is not amenable to heap leaching.

Additional testwork is underway to examine use of High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR) to improve the leaching of gold from coarse material.

Next Steps

A PEA will be contracted shortly and is planned for completion by late 2012.  The updated resource estimate and the metallurgical testwork will be used in the PEA.

Qualified Persons

Lynton Gormely, P.Eng. Principal Process Engineer with AMEC has reviewed and approved the technical information related to metallurgy included in this news release.

K. Kirk Woodman, P.Geo., General Manager Exploration is the Qualified Person overseeing Endeavour's exploration projects in Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire and Mali has reviewed and approved this press release.

All Ouaré sample preparations and standard 50 gram gold fire assays were performed by SGS Laboratories, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Endeavour consistently employs a rigorous quality control and assurance program comprising regular insertion of certified reference standards, blanks and duplicates.

About Endeavour Mining Corporation

Endeavour is a gold producer delivering growth. Endeavour owns two gold mines producing approximately 180,000 ozs per year in Ghana and Burkina Faso that are generating significant operating cash flows to fund exploration and development growth. In addition to upside potential at its current operations, Endeavour's third gold mine has entered the construction phase for an additional 100,000 ozs per year starting in Q1 2014. Endeavour's strong financial base encourages investments in long-term operational growth, exploration to replace and increase reserves, and funding for acquisitions.

Endeavour Mining Corporation is listed on the TSX (symbol EDV) and ASX (symbol EVR), and also trades on the OTCQX (symbol EDVMF).

On behalf of Endeavour Mining Corporation
Neil Woodyer
Chief Executive Officer

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Appendix of Collar Locations for Reported Holes

(Northing and Easting reported in WGS 84 UTM Zone 30N)

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