Aurelio Resource Corp (fka AULO)

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Aurelio Announces Details of 2008 Exploration & Development
Program at Hill Copper-Zinc Project

LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 05, 2008 Aurelio Resource Corporation (OTCBB: AULO)(FWB: F3RA) is pleased to announce plans for further exploration and development of the Company's wholly-owned Hill Copper-Zinc Project, located in Cochise County, Arizona.

Significant Drilling Planned For The Remainder Of 2008 At Hill Copper Leach Project

The Company has received approval from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for a 47,000-foot core drilling program on the MAN unpatented mining claims. Additional drilling is planned for 2008 on patented mining claims elsewhere in the Turquoise Mining District that are also wholly-owned by the Company.

Approximately 20,000 feet of the planned and permitted drill program has been designed to further delineate the extent of the leachable chalcocite resource, and provide additional drill and assay data for an independent NI 43-101 resource estimate to be completed by the end of the year. The drilling results will also be incorporated into a pre-feasibility study, planned for 1Q 2009.

The Company has signed a comprehensive drilling services agreement with Wilcox Professional Services LLC of Scottsdale, AZ for core drilling, road and site preparation, surveying and reclamation. The Company anticipates that drilling should begin within the next sixty days, subject to drill rig availability.

Further Metallurgical Test Work To Be Completed

Based on the very encouraging sequential leach test results reported on April 28, 2008 (see news release #08-11), which confirmed that secondary (chalcocite) copper mineralization at Hill is amenable to extraction of copper using industry-standard acid leach solution methods, the Company has decided to proceed with Phase II metallurgical test work.

Mountain States Research & Development International ("MSRDI") will conduct bottle roll tests on minus 1/2-inch size feed (representing a potential heap leach operation), and develop time versus recovery curves for this mineralized material. Using new drill core (approximately 5,000 feet of core from the permitted program), MSRDI will conduct a series of 6-inch diameter by 6-foot high column tests (using crush size that is yet to be determined) over a 60- to 90-day period.

At the conclusion of these work programs, MSRDI will provide the Company with preliminary flow sheets and initial engineering recommendations, including estimated operating and design parameters.

Log, Sample and Assay of 15,000 Ft. of Historic Drill Core in Chalcocite / Oxide Zones

In July 2007, the Company reported that it had successfully acquired 76,780 feet of drill core from 95 holes drilled by Santa Fe Minerals, Inc. (now part of Newmont Mining), Bear Creek Exploration and Great Gray Resources between the late 1960s and the mid 1990s on land within the Turquoise Mining District that is now 100% controlled by Aurelio (see news release #07-11).

Over the next seven months, the Company plans to log, assay and sample approximately 12,000 feet of this historic drill core, focusing on the upper (leachable) intervals of each core hole. The extensive chalcocite blanket identified by Aurelio was essentially ignored by all of the companies who previously drilled in the district.

This program will provide geologic information and assay data where none existed before, and the Company anticipates that the net result will be a significant increase in the size of the leachable copper deposit. Assay results will be released as information becomes available.

Additional Work Planned For MAN Sulfide Zone at Hill Copper-Zinc Project

Lastly, the Company plans further work on the high-grade copper-zinc-gold-silver sulfide mineralization that underlies the Hill Copper Leach Project.

Of the 47,000 feet of drilling planned and permitted on the MAN claims, approximately 22,000 feet will be in-fill and step-out drilling within the MAN Area sulfide zone, with limited additional drilling into sulfide targets at Courtland and South Courtland. Priority exploration targets will also be sampled and analyzed.

The Company also plans to log, sample and assay approximately 8,000 feet of sulfide zone intercepts from the historic drill core (primarily in the MAN Area). In many of the holes drilled by Santa Fe and others, zinc, gold and silver were ignored (because of then-prevailing metals prices), but will now be examined and assayed.

The 2008 work program on the sulfide zones at the Hill Copper-Zinc Project will culminate in a separate NI 43-101 resource estimate.