PATRICIAN DIAMONDS INC. (TSX-V: PXC) Diamond Drilling Starts: Doctor Lake (Sahtu) Project

Ottawa, ON: Patrician Diamonds Inc. ("Patrician") is pleased to announce that the Company has started its diamond drilling program near Doctor Lake in the Sahtu District of the Northwest Territories. The first hole is situated on the northern part of the Northside Anomaly, which has a bedrock magnetic signature of over 100 hectares. The program of core drilling will further evaluate the Hillside Kimberlite and will test other large magnetic anomalies in the vicinity of Hillside. The other magnetic anomalies that lie along two structural corridors east and southwest of Hillside are circular, oval and elongate in shape and range in area from about five hectares to over 20 hectares. Several have widths in excess of 500 metres. At least six targets will be tested with a total of eight to ten holes in this phase of drilling. Mr. C. Stewart Wallis, P.Geo. is the qualified person for Patrician under National Policy 43-101. More information on the Project can be found on the Company’s website or by contacting: