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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(CCNMatthews - July 24, 2006) - Brilliant Mining Corp. (TSX VENTURE:BMC) ("Brilliant") has received encouraging results from a recent airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey at the Company's 100% owned Michikamau Ni-Cu-Co-PGE Project located in west central Labrador. The geophysical results have confirmed and refined several distinct, high-quality nickel targets to be tested with an initial 12-hole 1,000m core drilling program planned for early August.

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Images and details of the geophysical conductors can be viewed on our website at www.brilliantmining.com

About Michikamau Property

The Michikamau Property ("Property") covers 116.5km2 along the southern margin of the Michikamau layered gabbro-anorthosite (troctolite) intrusion. This intrusion is considered to be highly favourable for hosting Ni-Cu-Co-PGE mineralization and represents a conceptual and empirical exploration target for Voisey's Bay type mineralization. Twenty-seven (27) high to medium conductors have been identified on the Property, hosted in troctolite within the interpreted throat "feeder" zone. The largest conductive zone encompasses an 800m x 1000m area. The best exploration targets are near surface, shallow dipping, strong conductors with coincident moderate-high magnetic responses. The Property is proximally situated to existing infrastructure including the Churchill Falls hydroelectric facility.

The project is supervised by Rob Carpenter, Ph.D., P.Geo. a Director of Brilliant, and is the qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101. All pertinent work permits have been approved. Lantech Drilling Services of Dieppe, NB, has been contracted to perform the drilling; InnuEx Resources Ltd., an Innu Business Partnership registered with the Innu Business Development Centre, has been contracted to provide logistical support to the project; and Apex Geoscience Ltd. of Edmonton, AB, has been contracted to oversee the drill program.

I just watched a show on TV where they were upgrading and completing the NWT highway. I've often wondered how they justified the expense of putting that road up there and now I know Diamonds.

I've often wondered why Voisey's bay and the communities that are situated around and in between the existing TLH and the Voisey's bay project didn't lobby for this kind of access to the mining site.

I'll be my own devils advocate here.
-At first the find was supposed to only have enough mineral to support 16 years of operation but since then additional findings have extended the life expectancy to something like 65 years at last discovery.
-The operations of the mine and transport of the ore can only take place seasonally due to the winter freeze up.
-Lack of cheap clean energy in this part of the country to make a smelter possible.
-The distance is to far 150 km in comparison to the distances in comparison with 2000+ KM Inuvik NWT.
-The people in the area didn't want year round access to goods, services and tourism opportunities?
-Seeing as the NWT road is apart of the NHS and was paid for in part if not whole by the Feds and the Feds are run by 60% Ontarians and Quebecers they wanted to ensure the smelters in Sudbury were ensured a prolonged life with this new find.
-The Newfoundland/Labrador Government didn't want to see any more infrastructure developed in Labrador and wanted to continue to have to pay for operating the ferry service to coastal Labrador.
-Nobody thought about putting a road to Voisey's bay and NAin?
-The Newfoundland/Labrador Government wanted to ensure the people of the Island portion of our province benefited from the discovery?
-People and communities of coastal Labrador didn't want access to cheap clean power from the Upper Churchill.

Just some food for thought and discussion.