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JNR Announces Drilling Programs for 2008

Wednesday December 19, 9:22 am ET

http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/071219/jnr_resources_2008.html?.v=1

SASKATOON, Dec. 19 /CNW/ - JNR Resources Inc. (TSXV:JNN) (the "Company") is pleased to provide the following update on its 100% owned uranium projects located in the Athabasca Basin of Northern Saskatchewan.

The 2008 winter exploration program will be drill intensive. The Company has budgeted $3.0 million to carry out 15,000 metres of diamond drilling on the Way Lake, Yurchison Lake, Black Lake and Newnham Lake projects. The permitting process is well underway, with drilling expected to begin early in the New Year. Total meterage allocation to each project will be results driven.

At Way Lake the program will target the original Hook Lake showing as well as radioactive showings discovered during the 2007 summer prospecting program and some 60 kilometres of virtually untested EM conductors interpreted over the past two years from airborne and ground geophysical surveys.

Targets at Yurchison Lake include a number of EM conductors identified by an airborne VTEM survey and several surface showings identified by the 2006 summer exploration program.

Drilling at Black Lake will target EM conductors identified over the past three years that are associated with a minimum 40-kilometre long fault zone, which represents the northern strike extension of the mineralized Virgin River shear (Centennial Zone).

At Newnham Lake the program will target a number of conductive and structural trends associated with metasedimentary rocks and radioactive granitic pegmatites, in an area characterized by a large number of surficial geochemical anomalies in lake sediments, peat and soils.

To facilitate the drilling program, the Company recently purchased two Heliportable Diamond Drills (Reference: October 30, 2007 news release) and entered into an agreement with Dynamic Drilling Inc. of Saskatoon to operate the drills and provide the crews. Recent correspondence with all the concerned parties indicates that the drills should be on site by year end.

The Company is still awaiting analytical results from the summer diamond drilling, prospecting and till sampling programs completed this year on the Way Lake and Yurchison Lake projects. The Saskatchewan Research Council Laboratory (SRC) is currently experiencing a 12 to 15 week backlog.

The Company has also recently completed a high-resolution gradient magnetic survey over its Crackingstone project and is in the process of flying the same over Black Lake and Newnham Lake. The results of this survey will be used to better define drill targets.

JNR is well financed with $14.5 million in working capital.

JNR's Vice-President of Exploration, David L. Billard, PGeo, is the qualified person responsible for the technical data presented in this release. All technical information for the Company's exploration projects is obtained and reported under a formal quality assurance and quality control program, details of which are presented on the Company's website at: www.jnrresources.com/i/pdf/JNR-QAQC.pdf. A glossary of the technical terms included in this release can be found on the Company's website at: www.jnrresources.com/s/Glossary.asp.


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

'Rick Kusmirski'

Rick Kusmirski
President & CEO

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