TORONTO, ONTARIO -- Midlands Minerals Corporation is pleased to announce the commencement of additional soil sampling on its Sian and Praso projects in Ghana.

The soil surveys are designed to tighten the spacing on existing soil grids to allow further definition of drill targets, to extend known open-ended zones, and to explore new areas, as part of the Company's on going exploration program. The newly released soil geochemical data from the adjacent Newmont property (Nkooko Concession) supports and adds confidence to Midlands' findings to date and moves the Company closer towards discovering additional gold mineralization on both Sian and Praso.

Sian and Kwahu Praso are located on the prolific Ashanti Gold Belt, just 30 km north east of Newmont Mining's +8.7 million oz Akyem gold deposit.

Sian has a 30 year mining lease, and is a fully permitted past open pit gold producer (2001-2004) with existing infrastructure including a CIL plant and a recently upgraded NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimate (see news release dated April 4, 2008).