East Africa Metals Inc. provided an update on the progress of the engineering work and the development plan for the hard-rock mining operation on the 1M ounce Magambazi gold deposit in Tanzania, which will ramp up as the tailings processing operations wind down. With the successful commissioning of the tailings processing, project owner/operator PMM Mining Company Limited ("PMM") has turned its attention to the planning of the hard-rock mine development program. Engineering work has commenced to develop detailed plans for mining operations and surface equipment installations. Once complete, the first-year production is targeted to be 10,000 ounces, scaling up to 40,000-ounces annually over a period of 48 months. This work is being completed by PPM engineers and consists of establishing a haul road to the main open pit at Magambazi South, followed by pit clearance and topsoil removal. PMM has advised EAM that grade control drilling is expected to start early next year prior to hard-rock mining. Resource geologists and mine engineers are reviewing the existing resource in the context of processing, grade and recovery data gained from the tailings operation. This work is being completed by local geological consulting firm with in-depth experience in preparing resource estimations for Tanzanian gold projects. This work will closely study the structural controls on mineralization that appear to be an important element of the mineralizing system that were not considered in the original mineral resource disclosed by EAM in a NI 43-101 report in 2012. Other elements of the mineral resource review will include developing a new block model that incorporates rock density data from a total of 468 drill holes rather than 400 diamond drill holes reported earlier.