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April 13, 2012                                                                                                           TSX-V: AMK             

American Creek Resources Ltd. (“American Creek”) is pleased to announce the final assay results from the last five holes of the 2011 exploration program conducted on its 100% owned Electrum Property near Stewart, B.C

In 2010 American Creek had planned a 10,000m program to advance the Electrum project.  This program was updated and refined by SRK Consulting and Frank O’Grady, P. Eng. to use the first 5,000m in identifying a potential open pit area crosscutting epithermal veins.  This open pit model has been used at the Big Missouri and Premier mines located 14 and 18km down the haul road from the Electrum.  This modified program also employs a more efficient use of limited drilling given that only 2,105m of the planned 5,000m were completed due to budgetary constraints.

The significance of continuing to intercept the stockwork (porphyry) previously found on the Electrum is due to the exceptional logistics of the property.  A well-developed 40km road directly links the property to the bulk tonnage shipping terminals in Stewart.  Electrical power lines come within 18 km of the property and can be continued along the existing haul road.

The historically mined epithermal vein on the property (East Gold Mine) produced 3,816 oz of gold and 2,442 oz of silver from 45 tons of hand selected ore (pre NI 43-101).  In surface sampling and in previous drilling American Creek has intercepted similar high-grade veins that would significantly add value to a low-grade bulk tonnage resource.

Program Objectives

With this in mind, the objectives of the 2011 program designed by SRK Consulting and Mr. O’Grady were to:

  1. Determine if the lower grade gold values present in a quartz stockwork similar to that found in Hole EL06-17 drilled in 2006 are present over a significant portion of the property.  Hole EL06-17 returned assays of 0.42 g/t Au and 2.10 g/t Ag over 142.5 meters.
  2. Determine if the higher grade gold values in epithermal veins are present along strike and down dip from their surface showings. 

These two objectives were pursued by geological mapping and diamond drilling.

Drill Results

Significant results from the last five holes of the 2011 program are reported below:

In hole EL11-759 the weighted average of gold over the entire 278.59 meters length of the hole is 0.31 grams per tonne gold.  There were sections of higher values as follows:

Sample # From To Interval(m) Augrams/tonne Aggrams/tonne
L624696 28 30 2 1.06 2.8
L624722 78 80 2 1.66 4.1
L624796 203.37 204.15 0.78 1.21 96.0
L624805 217.66 218.53 0.87 1.46 147.0

In hole EL11-762 the weighted average of gold over the entire 175.26 meters length is 0.39 grams per tonne gold.  There were sections of higher values as follows:

Sample # From To Interval(m) Augrams/tonne Aggrams/tonne
L624983 19 19.2 0.2 1.15 2.1
L625010 62.6 63.6 1 1.17 7.5
L625069 161 163 2 1.19 3.0
L625072 167 169 2 1.19 4.4

In hole EL11-761 the weighted average of gold over the entire 230.73 meters length is 0.23 grams per tonne gold. There were sections of higher values as follows:

Sample # From To Interval(m) Augrams/tonne Aggrams/tonne
L624871 64.22 64.61 0.39 2.18 4.0
L624889 93 94.45 1.45 1.27 5.1
L624909 124 126 2 1.65 4.2

Hole EL11-761 and hole EL11-759 were drilled from the same collar location as EL11-756; hole EL11-762 was drilled from a location 20 meters north of the EL11- 756 collar.

The three most recent holes (EL11-759, EL11-761 and EL11-762) were drilled to determine if the quartz stockwork encountered in EL11-756, and carrying sections of open pit grade values, was present in the immediate vicinity.

The results, as referenced from above are:

HOLE HOLE LENGTH (m) WEIGHTED AVERAGE
EL11-756 263.50 0.36 grams/tonne
EL11-759 278.59 0.31 grams/tonne
EL11-761 230.73 0.23 grams/tonne
EL11-762 175.26 0.39 grams/tonne

While the grades encountered in holes are probably sub economic when compared to other disseminated gold deposits around the globe they indicate the quartz stockwork containing gold values is extensive.  It can be concluded that systematic drilling stepping out from this area may result in expanding the known stockwork zone that will contain higher grade gold values.

Hydrothermal Veins

As discussed in the news release of December 14, 2011, the hydrothermal veins may play a significant role in adding value to the property.

A brief summary of the hydrothermal veins is as follows:

  1. East Gold Mine vein.  Historically produced 118,719 grams of gold (3,816 ounces) and 75,985 grams (2,442 ounces) of silver from 45 tonnes of handpicked ore (pre 43-101).
  2. Reported in the December 15, 2011 press release, a hydrothermal vein was encountered in hole EL11 -746 which is situated approximately 300 meters south of the East Gold Mine zone and is a parallel structure.  This vein assayed 3.85 g/t gold and 342.31 g/t silver over 1.57 meters.
  3. The Shiny Cliff hydrothermal vein, reported in a press release on September 28, 2011, was intersected in hole EL11-748.  Because of the possible nugget effect of the gold values in a hydrothermal vein this intersection was re-assayed.  The averaged results are 2.26 g/t gold and 286.44 g/t silver over 2.26 meters.

Summary

The results of the 2011 exploration program indicate that there is potential for expanding the bulk mining gold grades exemplified in the quartz stockwork type of mineralization.  It further indicates the potential of expanding the hydrothermal veins on the Electrum property by delineating known veins and the possibility of encountering further veins during future drilling and mapping of the property.

Frank O’Grady, P.Eng., is the Qualified Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 for the Electrum Project. Mr. O’Grady has verified and approved the contents of this news release.

American Creek Resourced Ltd. is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition and development of mineral deposits within the Province of British Columbia, Canada.

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