Artha Obtains Community Agreement in Argentina

Artha Resources Corporation (TSX VENTURE:AHC) is pleased to announce that its
wholly owned subsidiary in Argentina, Minera Crosby S.A, has received approval
from the local Coyaguayma Aboriginal Community to continue with exploration,
including drilling, at the Pirquitas properties in Jujuy Province, NW Argentina.


This approval is a vital step in Artha continuing its exploration on the highly
prospective properties which surround the currently operating Pirquitas
silver-zinc mine, which has proven and probable reserves of 84 million ounces of
silver as of December 2011. Exploration on Artha's properties was stalled in
2011 when the Company sought local community approval, which is the key step in
obtaining the permits from the Provincial Government. Artha views this agreement
as an important milestone in its plan to drill the initial high propriety
targets generated from work completed in 2010 and 2011 at the Pirquitas
properties. Further target generation will commence to assess new prospects as
well as refine initial drill targets at the Noeila Breccia and Pirquitas NW
zones (Map 1).


Artha has defined two priority-one targets by coincident multi-metal
geochemistry and induced poloraization (IP) chargebility at the Pirquitas NW and
Noeila Breccia prospects. Of particular note is a large circular feature at the
Noelia Breccia target (Map 2) north-east of the Pirquitas mine. The feature is
1000m wide in an east-west direction and over 1200m long in a north-south
direction. The geology at Noelia Breccia consists of sandstones and shales
(Acoite Formation) arranged in strongly folded, 1m to 2m thick beds, with a N-S
axes and high angle dips, unconformably overlaid by moraine deposits and debris
flow breccias. Noelia Breccia is interpreted as a low sulphidation epithermal
system, related to quartz veinlets and silicified structures, controlled by E-W
and NW-SE faults and fractures, sub-parallel to the Pirquitas Mine structural
system. The anomaly forms a halo of quartz-sericite and silicification in an
area of approximately 1200 x 1000m in size; the sets of veinlets have lengths
between 100 to 500m and widths from 1.0 to 5.0m. Mineralization consists of FeOx
hosted in the moraine matrix and in fractures. The geochemical sampling shows an
anomalous halo of Cu, Zn, Pb As, Sb, Hg. This anomaly has been interpreted as a
distal or higher level expression of a Pirquitas-type Ag-Zn-Sn mineralized
system which is hosted by the Ordovician Acoite Formation.


The Pirquitas NW target consists of a clastic and pelitic sequence of
greenish-gray to yellowish-brown sandstone, limolite and slates from the
Arenigian-Llanvirnian (Upper Ordovician) with sericite- clay alteration and weak
disseminated pyrite. The main structural trending is N-S to NNE-SSW, with mainly
high-angle faults, fractures and folds, originated during the Ocloyic tectonic
phase (Ordovician). In addition, WNW-ESE / NE-SW shear fractures, some of them
mineralized, have been observed in areas of structural convergence. A good
correlation between mineral occurrences and the intensity of the fracturing and
folding is evident at this prospect.


A prospective area (1.7km x 1.0km) has been identified 2.6km NW from the
Pirquitas mine where a quartz-sericite core with breccias, veins and stockworks,
E-W and NNE-SSW oriented and partially covered by Quaternary material, have been
mapped. The mineralization consists of FeOx (hematite and limonite) in quartz
veins, fractures and breccia matrix. The presence of sulphides as pyrite,
chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite has been observed in quartz stockworks,
veins and some old exploration workings. Artha's geological interpretation
suggests that geochemical anomalies in Pirquitas NW could be part of the same
hydrothermal system responsible for mineralization at the Pirquitas Mine.
Therefore, this target could represent a satellite ore body with superimposed
Au-Ag mineralization.


Artha remains fully committed to exploring its property suite in Argentina and
further updates on progress on the Organullo project will be released this week.


Charles Straw, B.Sc., is the qualified person under NI 43-101 responsible for
the technical information in this news release.


Artha was founded by a team of mining industry professionals with a proven track
record in project generation, exploration, mining and finance. The team's
primary goal is to build Artha into a world class mining company, focused on the
discovery, development and mining of economic minerals deposits globally.


On Behalf of the Board of Directors,

Todd McMurray, President 

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