Mill flotation plant start up

Vane Minerals PLC
21 November 2007



21 November 2007



                          VANE Minerals Plc (AIM:VML)



                      Start-up of Mill and Flotation Plant

                                       &

             Option to Purchase Agreement on Silver /Gold Prospect





VANE Minerals Plc (the 'Company') and its 100% owned Mexican subsidiary,
Minerales VANE SA de CV, are pleased to announce the startup of its 120 tonnes
per day mill/flotation plant located at San Dieguito de Arriba, some 30 km NNW
of the Company's underground Diablito silver/gold mine.



As a result of operating its own mill, the Company has been able to reduce the
ore cut off grade at the Diablito mine and there is now over 15,000 tonnes of
ore stockpiled awaiting processing. It is planned to utilize the lower grade
material first in the 2 to 4 week start up period during which the mill will be
fine tuned to optimize recovery.



An 'Option to Purchase Agreement' on the Bonanza silver/gold prospect, located
15 km SE of the mill at San Dieguito de Arriba has been finalized. The blocked
portal has been reopened and underground sampling of the steeply dipping quartz
vein is in progress to confirm old rib sampling which indicated approximately
18,000 tonnes of readily available vein material between the surface and the 355
metre elevation. Historic data available to the Company indicate the vein
material sampled and drilled by Industrias Penoles S.A. de C.V. in 1986 averaged
350 g/T Ag and 3.0 g/T Au. The vein material appears to be ideally suited for
supplemental feed to the mill in San Dieguito de Arriba.



Dependent on the confirmation of the old sample results, a drilling program to
confirm and expand this potential resource will be initiated in Q1 2008. The
agreement consists of staged payments up to April 2009 and can be terminated by
the Company at any point with no further payments required.









 Enquiries:


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For further information, please review: www.vaneminerals.com.




About VANE Minerals:



VANE Minerals was founded by the former international exploration team of
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., one of the world's largest producers of
copper and gold. The Company has assembled a highly qualified and experienced
management team with a proven track record in exploration and development, who
have spent their entire careers searching for and defining large-scale mineral
deposits.



The Company is using the silver/gold production at its Diablito Mine in Mexico
to help fund exploration work across its attractive portfolio.



Since December 2004, VANE has built up a substantial uranium portfolio of
properties in the Colorado Plateau region, initially targeting the Arizona strip
which holds the highest grade deposits in the US, contained in breccia pipes.




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