Resource Drilling Commences at Firawa Uranium Project in Guinea, West Africa

    MURCHISON UNITED NL
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                                                                               ASX, AIM and Media Release
                                                                                         28 October 2008

             Resource Drilling Commences at Firawa Uranium Project in Guinea, West Africa

                                              HIGHLIGHTS

*   Follow-up drilling underway at the Firawa Uranium Prospect in Guinea, following on from the maiden
    drilling undertaken in 2007.

*   Current programme to comprise approximately 50 holes of diamond core drilling of up to 200m  in
    length for 4,000m in total.

*   Drilling  designed  to delineate a JORC-Code compliant resource, following previously  reported
    drilling assay results of up to 1,325ppm Uranium.
    
International  uranium company, Murchison United NL ("Murchison United" or the "Company") (ASX:  MUR,  AIM:
MUU),  is pleased to announce that a program of follow-up resource drilling has commenced at its 100%-owned
Firawa uranium prospect in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa.

The  current follow-up drilling programme follows recent successful drilling campaigns carried out  by  the
Company  at  the  Bohoduo prospect in Guinea and the Bir En Nar prospect in Mauritania. It is  designed  to
build on the Company's initial drilling campaign carried out at Firawa in May 2007.

Preparations including topographic surveys and bulldozing were completed earlier this year prior to the wet
season.  This drilling programme is expected to take approximately one month to complete and will  comprise
approximately 50 holes of diamond core drilling of up to 200m in length for a planned total  of  4,000m  of
drilling.

The  drilling programme is being carried out by Amco Construction, with assay samples to be dispatched  for
multi-element analysis by ALS Chemex in Canada.

The  programme  was  designed  to  follow up previous drilling undertaken  in  May  2007  within  a  highly
prospective 2km section of a previously identified uranium anomaly which extends more than 5km  within  the
Firawa exploration licences.

It  is expected that the additional results from the current drilling programme will enable calculation  of
an initial JORC Code compliant uranium resource for the Firawa prospect.
Figure  1  below  shows the planned drill-hole locations as well as the locations of the holes  drilled  in
2007.

Fig.1    Firawa drilling programme, October 2008 (to view image, please open the following link  in  a  new
window): http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/muu1028fig1.pdf.

The  previous  drilling  undertaken in May 2007 comprised 29 RC drill holes for  a  total  of  1,809m.  The
drilling  was undertaken in a deep laterite weathered soil profile. The uranium mineralisation  follows  an
East - West tectonic structure, interpreted as a fault zone, over a distance of five kilometres.

Highlights from the assay results for the 2007 campaign follow:

Drill Hole       Intersection        Section            U3O8    Maximum 1m Section U3O8
RC                  Length (m)            (m)           (ppm)                      (ppm)
FRW12                      10        39 - 49             652                      1,325
FRW30                       5        30 - 35             749                      1,020
FRW35                      12        13 - 25             771                        995
FRW31                       5          1 - 6             678                        983
FRW14                       6        39 - 45             715                        883
FRW34                       4        53 - 57             615                        840
FRW33                      20        22 - 42             524                        726
FRW33                       2        48 - 50             630                        680
FRW3                        6        66 - 72             480                        716
FRW15                       8        20 - 28             409                        693
FRW9                       14        20 - 34             555                        680

Murchison  United  has  secured  an  extensive portfolio of uranium exploration  projects  comprising  some
15,458km2  of  highly  prospective tenements in Mauritania and Guinea, West Africa.  Its  objective  is  to
delineate significant new uranium deposits within these under-explored terrains.

Fig.2  Location of Murchison United's Guinea Projects (to view image, please open the following link  in  a
new window): http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/muu1028fig2.pdf.

Murchison  United  NL  is  an Australian-based no liability company whose principal  activity  is  minerals
exploration.  The  Company has uranium exploration projects in Mauritania and Guinea  in  West  Africa  and
copper  interests  in  the Millennium copper/cobalt leases in Cloncurry, Queensland  and  the  Maroochydore
copper/cobalt project in Western Australia.

Shares in the company are listed on both the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX - MUR) and the AIM market  (AIM
- MUU) of the London Stock Exchange.

Please call Mark Reilly with any queries.

..........
Mark Reilly
Managing Director

RFC Corporate Finance - Nomad
Stuart Laing Tel: +618 9480 2506

Fairfax I.S. PLC - UK Broker
Ewan Leggat / Laura Littley Tel: +44 207 598 5368

The  information in this announcement that relates to exploration results is based on information  compiled
by  Mr.  Bosse  Gustafsson, who is a member of the European Federation of Geologists a Recognised  Overseas
Professional  Organisation  ("ROPO"). Mr Bosse Gustafsson is a full time Technical  Director  of  Murchison
United  NL  and  is  responsible for exploration activities in Mauritania and  Guinea.  Mr  Gustafsson  has
sufficient  experience,  which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and the  type  of  deposit  under
consideration and to the activity, which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as  defined  in
the  2004 Edition of the 'Australian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources  and  Ore
Reserve'.  Mr Gustafsson consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on their information
in the form and context in which it appears.

                                                                
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