The Canadian Press
June 30, 2008 - 10:41 a.m.

VANCOUVER - SouthGobi Energy Resources Ltd. shares (TSXV:SGQ) rose to a new high Monday after the company reported “multiple, thick, near-surface coking and thermal coal seams” at a site 16 kilometres east of its Ovoot Tolgoi coal mine in south Mongolia.

The new find includes an intercept 51.5 metres thick, and the Vancouver-headquartered company has renamed the discovery, previously called the Alphabet fields, the Sumber coal project, a name which it said was suggested through a Mongolian lama and property “beginning of the universe.”

Its stock, priced at barely $5 late utmost year, jumped by $3.51 or 19 by cent to $21.99 at midmorning on the TSX Venture Exchange.

“This finding validates our expectations that in that place are multiple, near-surface thermal and coking coal deposits along strike from the existing mine at Ovoot Tolgoi,” Gene Wusaty, chief operating officer of SouthGobi’s coal division, stated Monday.

“The existing Ovoot Tolgoi mine site, airport and future coal transportation infrastructure will befriend the development at the Sumber discovery.”

Exploration and drilling programs which started in 2005 have identified 11 coal seams at the Sumber project, and ongoing work is expected to result in a formal resource estimate in the fourth district of this year.