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June 11, 2004

Vancouver, British Columbia, June 11, 2004 (TSX Venture: EMX) - Eurasian Minerals Inc. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Altyn Minerals LLC, has acquired 100% of Kyrgyz-registered company Kichi Chaarata and its exploitation license for the Kuru Tegerek copper-gold deposit. The Kuru Tegerek deposit is located in the Chatkal valley in northwestern Kyrgyzstan at an elevation of 2,900 meters, and is approximately 780 kilometers west of the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek.

The Kuru Tegerek deposit was discovered by Soviet geologists in 1963, and has undergone multiple campaigns of exploration, including surface sampling, mapping, geophysical surveys, trenching, drilling, and underground sampling. The deposit is a series of steeply dipping copper-gold skarn mineralized bodies that occur at the contact of a Carboniferous porphyritic diorite intrusion and lower Carboniferous carbonate units.

The “Southern”, “Northwestern”, and “Northeastern” copper-gold mineralized bodies comprise the main zone of mineralization. The Southern zone is the principal mineralized body, with dimensions of 400 meters along strike, variable thickness ranging from 100 meters to a complete wedging out, and 900 meters in down-dip extent. The upper portions of the deposits are oxidized, transitioning to mixed oxidesulfide and sulfide material at depth. The vertical extent of oxidation is variable.

The Southern and Northwestern mineralized bodies were explored during the Soviet era by various governmental agencies with over 7,200 meters of trenching, 16,000 meters of underground development and sampling, and 40,000 meters of core drilling. Exploration on the Northeastern zone was limited to surface exploration work. In 1980, the Central Asian Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals performed detailed studies of Kuru Tegerek and further exploration was discontinued in 1983. Further studies were conducted in 1995 by Mitsui Mining Company, and by a Kyrgyz-Russian joint venture in 1996.

The Kyrgyz Republic State Commission for Mineral Reserves reported the mineralized oxide material using the Soviet defined C1 and C2 resource categories (“Protocol Number 24, minutes of the session on the Upper Portion of the Kuru Tegerek Deposit”, unpublished government document, June 28, 2000). The Company is reporting the historical C1 and C2 estimates as originally stated in Table 1 below. Also reported were 1.71 million tonnes of “uneconomic” material with grades of 0.54 % copper and 0.69 g/t gold.
Table 1. Historical resources reported by Kyrgyz State Commission for
Minerals Reserves. (a)

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Zone Category Tonnes Cu % Au g/t
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Southern C1 2,610,000 1.00 2.69
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Northwestern C2 196,000 1.25 2.41
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(a) Assumptions: open pit mining of oxide material, $275/ounce gold
price, 70% gold recovery, $0.54/pound copper price, 60% copper
recovery, 2 g/t gold equivalent cutoff, and a minimum mining thickness
of 4 meters.

Although there is no exact correlation between CIMM and Soviet categories of resources, usually, the C1 category is adequately delineated to approximate the CIMM guidelines for an “indicated resource”. Similarly, the C2 category usually complies with CIMM guidelines for an “inferred resource”. However, the Company does not consider any of the above historical resource estimates to be better defined than an “inferred” category until independent verification and confirmation can be completed. The historical estimate summarized in Table 1 is judged to be relevant, and the reliability of the estimate is assumed to be representative of the grades and tonnages stated. However, the estimate has not been independently verified by the Company, and must not be relied upon until verification by the Company has been performed.

Between 1998 and 2000, Hemmco-Kyrgyzstan Corp. conducted additional work on Kuru Tegerek. Hemmco-Kyrgyzstan focused their work exclusively on the upper oxide zone of the Southern mineralized body. They drilled 115 in-fill core holes in 1999 at 25 to 30 meter spacing and contracted Pincock, Allen and Holt (PAH) to produce an updated study of Kuru Tegerek. From the Soviet era and Hemmco-Kyrgyzstan drilling and sampling PAH produced an updated “mineable resource” estimate that is summarized in Table 2 below (“Kuru Tegerek Deposit, Conceptual Project Analysis”, unpublished company document, May, 2001).Table 2. Historical “mineable resource” reported in 2001 by PAH. (b)

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Zone Tonnes Cu %(c) Au g/t
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Southern 2,100,000 0.53 2.88
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(b) Assumptions: open pit mining of the oxide material, $275/ounce gold
price, 80% gold recovery, $0.80/pound copper price, 85% copper recovery
(acid soluble content(c)), and a five year production schedule.

PAH’s “mineable resource” estimate summarized in Table 2 is relevant, but does not meet NI 43-101 or CIMM resource reporting standards. PAH’s historical “mineable resource” has no CIMM equivalent resource definition, but most closely approximates an “inferred resource” that has had various mining, metallurgical, and economic parameters imposed to report the “in-pit” material. The PAH historical estimate has not been verified by the Company and should not be relied upon until it can be confirmed by the Company. An additional 26 core holes were drilled in 2000, but to the Company’s knowledge were never incorporated into an updated resource estimate.

The Kuru Tegerek deposit has a long-lived and extensive history of exploration work and mining studies spanning over forty years. The Company is currently in the process of field verification and technical due diligence in preparation for filing a NI 43-101 Technical Report on the property in the upcoming months. The Company’s plan is to evaluate the exploration potential of the deposit and the surrounding area as well as to complete a scoping study to reevaluate the economics of the oxide portion of the Southern zone. This reevaluation is particularly important in light of current metal prices and improved extractive metallurgical processes for deposits of this nature. Kuru Tegerek represents a significant copper-gold mineralized deposit, and the Company looks forward to updating our understanding of the deposit’s resource potential during the current field season.

Mr. Dean Turner, P.Geo., a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and consultant to the Company, has reviewed and verified the technical mining information contained in this news release.

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For further information contact:

David M. Cole
President and Chief Executive Officer
Phone: (303) 979-6666
Email: dave@eurasianminerals.com
Website: www.eurasianminerals.com

Kim C. Casswell
Corporate Secretary
Phone: (604) 688-6390
Email: kcasswell@eurasianminerals.com
Website: www.eurasianminerals.com

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Forward-Looking Statement
Some of the statements in this news release contain forward-looking information that involves inherent risk and uncertainty affecting the business of Eurasian Minerals Inc. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements.

Acquisition of Kuru Tegerek Property in Kyrgyz Republic

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