SA Southern Arc Minerals Inc

Southern Arc Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SA) ("Southern Arc") is pleased to
announce that drilling is underway at its Sabalong Project on Sumbawa Island,
Indonesia. The property is being advanced in partnership with a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Vale S.A. ("Vale") under an option and joint venture agreement.
Southern Arc is managing the exploration program, and Vale is funding all
project expenditures. Full details about the option and joint venture agreement
are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on Southern Arc's website at
www.southernarcminerals.com.


During 2011 Southern Arc completed a detailed ground magnetic survey covering a
15.5 square km area over the property to identify potential buried porphyry
targets. Magnetic anomalies identified on the western and southern margins of
the Lito lithocap were recently covered by a deep-penetrating induced
polarisation (IP) survey, which covered an 8.2 square km area. Inversion
modeling and 3D visualization of the magnetic and IP data has revealed a
chargeable zone over a 1.3km by 1.5km area possibly related to buried sulphides.
Southern Arc and Vale plan to drill this target with a series of deep holes to
test for the presence of a mineralized porphyry system. The first three planned
drill hole locations are shown in Figure 1; drilling of the first hole commenced
on October 21 (to view Figure 1, visit the following link:
http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/sa1024Figure1.pdf).


The 9,950 hectare Sabalong Project is located in the Miocene volcanic belt of
the Sunda-Banda Arc, 30km north-northeast of Newmont's Elang copper-gold
porphyry deposit, a "consolidated 25 Moz gold and 16 Blb copper target" (Newmont
Mining Corporation News Release, February 24, 2011) and 75km northeast of
Newmont's Batu Hijau copper-gold mine.


The technical information in this press release has been reviewed by Andrew
Rowe, B. App. Sc. Geology, MAusIMM, Chief Geologist of Southern Arc and a
Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.


On behalf of the Board of Directors

John Proust, Chairman and CEO

About Southern Arc

Southern Arc Minerals Inc. is a Canadian mineral exploration company with an
aggressive exploration, acquisition and growth strategy. The Company's portfolio
includes four exploration projects with epithermal gold and gold-copper porphyry
prospects on the Lombok and Sumbawa islands in Indonesia, three of which are
being advanced in partnership with major mining companies Vale and Newcrest. The
Company's key exploration property is its West Lombok project, with several
gold-rich copper porphyry and epithermal gold vein prospects. Southern Arc is
listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol SA. More information is
available at www.southernarcminerals.com or by emailing
info@southernarcminerals.com.


Forward-looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements relating to expected or
anticipated future events and operations, timing of projects and anticipated
results that are forward-looking in nature and, as a result, are subject to
certain risks and uncertainties, such as general economic, market and business
conditions, the regulatory process and actions, technical issues, new
legislation, competitive and general economic factors and conditions, the
uncertainties resulting from potential delays or changes in plans, the
occurrence of unexpected events, and the company's capability to execute and
implement future plans. Actual results achieved may vary from the information
provided herein as a result of numerous known and unknown risks and
uncertainties and other factors. There is no representation by the company that
actual results achieved during the forecast period will be the same in whole or
in part as that forecast.

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