ARUMA RESOURCES LIMITED

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ABN 77 141 335 364 ASX: AAJ

ASX ANNOUNCEMENT 30 April 2012

QUARTERLY ACTIVITIES STATEMENT For the quarter ending 31 March 2012

HIGHLIGHTS

 Glandore Project

Fluid Flow Study at Glandore final report received
PoWs submitted to drill targets
Heritage survey planned

 Jundee South Project

First pass drilling has high grade gold intersection
PoW submitted for second phase

 Twin Hills Tenement Package

600m of drilling completed before rain interruption

 Gindalbie Tenement Package

HyVista Survey preliminary interpretation reveals anomalies
PoW approved
Heritage Survey planned

 Regional Exploration

HyVista interpreted and Steeple Hill Ni-Cu anomaly followed up

Aruma Resources Limited ABN 77 141 335 364 ASX: AAJ Suite 33, 18 Stirling Highway, Nedlands WA 6009 Australia I Locked Bag 2000, Nedlands WA 6909, Australia T +61 8 6389 1799 I F +61 8 6389 0112 I W www.arumaresources.com

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EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES

Aruma Resources Limited (ASX:AAJ ) (“Aruma” or “the Company”) is pleased to provide an update to the market on its strategy, progress on and planned programs at the Company’s portfolio of gold projects, covering some 1600km[2] in WA’s Eastern and Murchison Goldfields.

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Figure 1 Aruma Projects in the Eastern Goldfields

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ABN 77 141 335 364 ASX: AAJ Suite 33, 18 Stirling Highway, Nedlands WA 6009 Australia I Locked Bag 2000, Nedlands WA 6909, Australia T +61 8 6389 1799 I F +61 8 6389 0112 I W www.arumaresources.com

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Project Locations

EASTERN GOLDFIELDS	Glandore Hub	Glandore Project - 40km east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Status- Advancedwith FluidFlowtargetsready to drillon PoW
		Gindalbie Project - 60km north-east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Status– Flown with HyVista andPoW readyforsubmission
		Kurnalpi South Project - 100km east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Status – Mt Quin lease dropped and Native Title objections before NNTT
		Bulong Project - 30 km east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Status– DueforgrantinJuly and data base assembled
		Patricia Project - due south of Edjudina line Status–Awaiting grant and data base assembled
	Regional Projects	Twin Hills Project - The Twin Hills belt 25 km north of Menzies Status–Drilling underway
		Carbine Project - In the Kunanalling Belt Status–Awaiting grant and data base assembled
		Jundee South Project - 20km south of Jundee Mine Status-First Pass RAB drilling hits 18 g/t Au over 1m
		Darlot East Project - 20km east of Laverton Status–Granted and drilling targetsidentified
		Laverton East Project - 20km east of Laverton Status- Paul Well(Northern)LeasehasmultipleHyVistaTargets
MURCHISON GOLDFIELDS		Youno Downs Project - 20km west of Gidgee Gold Mine Status–Awaiting grant and data base assembled
		Big Bell West Project - 10km west of Big Bell Mine Status–Leases to be dropped

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Leases Advanced or Dropped

The Company continues to rationalise its landholding in the Eastern Goldfields and Murchison regions – both proven and prolific gold provinces. In line with this strategy, Aruma has relinquished several Exploration Licences that have not given definite responses to exploration. These leases were relinquished at the end of the quarter but were officially received in early April.

Aruma has a clear strategy to efficiently explore the gold mineralisation potential of a strategic landholding in WA’s Goldfields - with a view to developing a gold production hub centred around its flagship Glandore project; as well as satellite projects. To this end, Aruma has systematically expanded its portfolio of prospective gold projects within a 60km radius of the Glandore Project to an area covering some 500km[2] .

Importantly, all of Aruma’s lease holdings have been selected based on the presence of geological structures typically known to host mineralisation.

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Figure 2 The Glandore Hub Leases

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EFFICIENT EXPLORATION OF FLAGSHIP GLANDORE PROJECT

Given the extent of Aruma’s significant project portfolio, the Company is committed to a strategy of efficient exploration to confirm or disprove potential targets. In keeping with this strategy, the Company is deploying new exploration technologies. Most recently CSIRO completed a Fluid Study at its flagship Glandore Project.

The Study, which was completed before year-end, has demonstrated outcomes comparable to a 20,000m pattern drilling program, but in a considerably shorter timeframe and at considerably less cost.

The use of HyVista, proven at Laverton East and Jundee South; has now been interpreted on the other Eastern Goldfields properties at Gindalbie and Laverton East's Paul's Well lease.

Glandore Fluid Flow Modelling

The diagram below shows the areas of high Fluid Flow (warm colours) from the draft CSIRO Report which was finalised in February. The areas circled are of interest as defined by the CSIRO modelling and will be RAB drilled for bedrock alteration. The anomalies are over 4km and 2km in length respectively and on regional structures, making them high order targets.

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Figure 3 Drill targets (Ellipses) at Glandore from CSIRO Fluid Flow Study

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The major anomalies generated are on the mainland adjacent to the lake areas and to date, have not been drilled. This opens a new phase of exploration at Glandore with targets generated by new techniques.

It should be noted that the new areas are outside the known mineralisation areas such as Supergene-Axial Planar and under shallow cover and the western areas are coincident with HyVista responses.

TWIN HILLS NORTH PROJECT OVERVIEW

Background

As previously announced, Aruma has successfully negotiated an option agreement over the exciting Moriarty Shear which hosts the Twin Hills Mine as well as some 15 km of gold bearing greenstone belt. This previously unexplored belt contains thick zones of identified gold mineralisation and large geochemical anomalies that have not been drilled.

Geological Setting

The Twin Hills North Project area is mostly covered by moderate younger sediments consisting of soft sand with minor laterites. The magnetic image below clearly shows the buried greenstone belt running north-south between the two granites under cover.

The Twin Hills Greenstone sequence is a relatively narrow belt between two different granites and extends the full length of the leases over some 15 km. The greenstones are reported by previous workers to be ultramafic, mafic and sedimentary rocks, and are approximately 1.2 km wide. The presence of ultramafic to BIF rocks intruded by granites on structures fits the exploration model used by Aruma for all its tenements.

Table 1 Table of historical intersections

Hole ID	MGA mN	MGA mE	From	To	Interval(m)	g/t Au	ppm Cu
THR 301	6755258	314685	25	47	22	1.04	NA
THR 288	6755208	314757	25	26	1	2.56	NA
THR 331	6755408	314792	50	70	20	0.54	NA
WRC01	6755252	314668	43	55	12	0.84	308
Including	6755252	314668	53	54	1	1.79	2360
WRC03	6755313	314670	32	60	28	0.86	182
WRC04	6755307	314648	24	48	24	0.51	113
WRC06	6755365	314655	24	48	24	0.39	99

The above table shows the thick low grade intersections previously encountered in the northern leases to be followed up in the near future. The Au Cu signature in WRC01 is similar to the intrusive hosted orebodies identified recently at Integra Mining Limited’s Majestic Discovery.

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Figure 4 TMI Map of Twin Hills North Project on the N-S Moriarty Shear. The current drilling area is outlined in black ellipse

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Work Program

In line with the stated program in the last quarterly, drilling commenced in mid-March but after only 3 days the area received a major rain event and some 30 mm of rain occurred. The drilling was stopped after approximately 600m and recommenced in April.

GINDALBIE PROJECT OVERVIEW

At Gindalbie, Aruma has 150km[2] of ground in leases as shown below in blue. The yellow area is the Camel Dam area picked up in the LSA agreement for Twin Hills and surrounds the Mayday mines.

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Figure 5 Map of complimentary area at Gindalbie with E27/397 shaded yellow (excluded Mayday leases red striped)

Geology of the Lease Area

The project area is essentially underlain in the west by a sequence of gabbro, dolerite and basalt. To the east the tenure is underlain by felsic volcanics and sequential arkosic to argillaceous metasediments. Rhyolitic flows and tuffs with interbedded pebble conglomerates and metasediments underlie the eastern edge of the tenure. The project is essentially divided by an east-west trending dolerite-gabbro Proterozoic dyke.

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Nearby gold mining areas include the Mayday Mining Area, located 2km south of the Camel Dam Project, which currently has a resource of 1,019,653t @ 1.89g/t for 62,048oz Au. The Kalpini gold deposit, located 2km east of the Camel Dam Project, currently has a resource of 2,700,000t @ 2.8g/t for 242,000oz Au.

Within the project area, the felsic and conglomerates are not the primary targets as these have been downgraded by previous explorers. Gold potential at the Camel Dam Project remains within the under-explored greenstone sequence in the western half of the project. The greenstone sequence is known to host gold mineralisation, as numerous historical gold workings have been located in the area; rock sampling from around an abandoned shaft (The Lady Lauren) in the northwest of the project returned a best assay of 25.81ppm Au.

Work Program Gindalbie

As detailed in the last quarterly, HyVista was flown and interpreted during the quarter and the PoW approved and the drilling program awaits heritage clearance.

JUNDEE SOUTH PROJECT

The initial assay results at the Jundee South Project were significant in both extent and tenor. This area was drilled to investigate low level soil anomalies with 0.1 to 0.4 g/t Au values and the results suggest that the western anomaly is a WNW stratigraphic zone; and the eastern, larger anomaly is on a major NNE lineament. Covering two areas some 4 km apart the results indicate that extensive mineralised zones defined by structure and alteration which is completely covered by varying depths (5 to 25m) of tertiary cover. All the intersections showed carbonate (limonitic) alteration in mafics (with iron and silica). These results are the highest grade intersections in the area to date including all the historical results.

Table 2: Assays > 0.1g/t Au
Hole Easting Northing From To	Interval g/t Au	Zone
JSR14 275900 7064000 24 25	2 0.14	East
JSR14 275900 7064000 33 39	6 0.43	East
JSR17 276000 7064100 42 43	1 0.17	East
JSR17 276000 7064100 20 21	1 0.14	East
JSR17 276000 7064100 23 25	2 0.83	East
JSR17 276000 7064100	Including 1 1.36	East
JSR22 273000 7064900 26 25	1 0.15	West
JSR22 273000 7064900 21 25	4 4.84	West
JSR23 273000 7065000	Including 1 18.60	West
JSR23 273000 7065000 8 12	4 0.53	West
JSR23 273000 7065000	Including 1 1.03	West
JSR23 273000 7065000 14 20	6 0.45	West

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An extension to the current PoW has also been applied for to do follow up drilling to fully test the mineralisation extent evident from the geochemistry.

The locations of the two anomalous zones are shown below in Figure 6 and are represented by the dashed ellipses.

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Figure 6 Latest drilling results on the geology at Jundee South showing East and West areas

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LAVERTON EAST

Aruma’s Laverton East Gold Project in WA’s eastern Goldfields returned an intersection of 2m at 4.28 g/t Au in drillhole LEAC 31. A total of 20 holes for 667m were completed before the program was halted due to rain. Of the twenty holes, one hole intersected >1g/t Au and 3 other holes hit anomalous (>0.05 g/t) Au values. This was followed by the second phase drilling at the Company’s Laverton East Gold Project in WA’s eastern Goldfields. A total of 40 holes were completed for 1,381m. The drill holes were sited to follow up the previously announced 2m at 4.28g/t Au in LEAC 31 as well as testing the more felsic zone to the east.

The Paul Well EL to the north of this area was approved in the quarter, and flown with HyVista. There are large areas of anomalism similar to the successfully drilled area above, and these are targets in the submitted PoW. As detailed in the last quarterly, HyVista was interpreted during the quarter and the PoW was submitted and the drilling program awaits heritage clearance.

KURNALPI SOUTH-STEEPLE HILL

The first phase of drilling at the Company’s Steeple Hill Gold Project in WA’s eastern Goldfields, was completed in the quarter. A total of 61 holes were completed for 1,980m. The drill holes were sited to follow up the previously announced HyVista, soil and gossan anomalies.

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Figure 7 Steeple Hill Lease showing Geology and drilling results

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The drilling has given low order gold responses but sulphide based Ni Cu anomalism in a mafic intrusive in the SW corner of the lease. These results were submitted for platinoids group metals (PGM) and the results are expected in the coming quarter. Field inspection showed blebby sulphides in a diopside intrusive with good jarosite anomalies on the HyVista. A new PoW was submitted for deeper follow up drilling here.

DARLOT EAST PROJECT

The Darlot Project consists of two lease groups, with Darlot East being situated 4km east of Barrick's multimillion ounce Darlot Mine.

The Darlot leases are now granted and the gold values in the old drilling on a cross fault are quite exciting, with no drilling done along the 7km strike shown in yellow dashes in Figure below.

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Figure 8 Darlot Project geology map showing strike extension and drilling results below

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RW 1 - 1m @ 3.27g/t from 18m
RW 2 - 4m @ 2.1g/t from 18m**
RW 3 - 1m @ 0.75g/t from 25m
RW 4 - 2m @ 0.33g/t from 25m
RW 5 - 1m @ 10.2g/t from 21m
** above 4m stope with 1m @ 0.83g/t below

Proposed Exploration Activities for Q4 2011/2012

GLANDORE

Initial drilling on Fluid flow Model under covered areas

TWIN HILLS PROJECT

New PoW submitted for North Lease
60 RAB holes scheduled in Southern Lease
600m in RC holes over areas of previous thick intersections

GINDALBIE PROJECT

PoW approved for Camel Dam Lease to investigate
240 RAB holes scheduled
New leases to be granted

KURNALPI SOUTH AND SATELLITE PROJECTS

Follow up Cu-Ni anomalies at Steeple Hill
PoWs prepared for Darlot Leases
HyVista interpretation over new leases

LAVERTON EAST

Drilling on HyVista anomalies at Paul Well

REGIONAL ELs

Dropping non prospective areas at Mt Quin and Big Bell West
Looking at new areas and data assembly of new leases

Other Projects

In addition to its current projects in Western Australia, Aruma continues to evaluate potential project opportunities.

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For further information please contact:

Company: Media: Peter Schwann Annette Ellis/ Karen Oswald Managing Director Purple Communications Aruma Resources Limited Tel: +61 (0)8 6314 6300 [email protected] [email protected] Tel: +61 (0)8 6389 1799

The information in this release that relates to Exploration Results, Mineral Resources or Ore Reserves is based on information compiled by Peter Schwann who is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and Chartered Professional (Geology). Mr Schwann is an employee of the Company. Mr Schwann has sufficient relevant experience to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the JORC Code (2004) and consents to the inclusion of this information in the form and context in which it appears.

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