TORONTO, May 8 /CNW/ - Anatolia Minerals Development Limited ("Anatolia" and "Company") (TSX:ANO) will hold its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) at the 53rd floor of Stikeman Elliott LLP, 5300 Commerce Court West, 199 Bay Street, Toronto, Canada.
Immediately following the meeting, Mr. Edward Dowling will make his first presentation to shareholders since joining Anatolia as President and CEO on April 1, 2008. Mr. Dowling's presentation will highlight progress and development plans for the Cöpler Gold Project and outline the Company's strategic direction and opportunities.
The presentation will be posted to Anatolia's website at www.anatoliaminerals.com immediately following the meeting. Access will be available through the Investor Relations Section, under "Other Reports and Presentations".
About Anatolia
Anatolia is developing its 100%-owned Cöpler Gold Project in Turkey. The initial phase of development anticipates mining the open-pittable oxide portion of the deposit. Concurrently, Anatolia is progressing studies for a potential second phase expansion to include future development of the sulfide portion of the deposit.
As one of Turkey's leading minerals exploration companies, Anatolia continues to seek aggressive growth through new discoveries as it targets numerous potentially large-scale base and precious metals opportunities.
Anatolia currently has 83.1 million common shares issued and outstanding, 100.4 million fully diluted. Anatolia trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange as ANO.
Cautionary Statements
Certain statements contained in this news release constitute forward-looking information, future oriented financial information, or financial outlooks (collectively "forward-looking information") within the meaning of Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking information may relate to this news release and other matters identified in Anatolia's public filings, Anatolia's future outlook and anticipated events or results and, in some cases, can be identified by terminology such as "may", "will", "could", "should", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "intend", "estimate", "projects", "predict", "potential", "continue" or other similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts and include, but are not limited in any manner to, those with respect to commodity prices, mineral resources, mineral reserves, realization of mineral reserves, existence or realization of mineral resource estimates, the timing and amount of future production, the timing of construction of the proposed mine and process facilities, the timing of receipt of permits and authorizations including forestry leases, completion of optimization studies and mine construction, capital and operating expenditures, which are qualified by any and all other timing, development, operational, financial, economic, legal, regulatory, and political factors that may influence future events or conditions. Such forward-looking statements are based on a number of material factors and assumptions, including, but not limited in any manner, those disclosed in any other Anatolia filings, and include the ultimate determination of mineral reserves, availability and final receipt of required approvals, licenses and permits, sufficient working capital to develop and operate the proposed mine, access to adequate services and supplies, commodity prices, foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates, access to capital markets and associated cost of funds, availability of a qualified work force, and the ultimate ability to mine, process and sell mineral products on economically favorable terms. While we consider these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available to us, they may prove to be incorrect. Actual results may vary from such forward-looking information for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to risks and uncertainties disclosed in other Anatolia filings at www.sedar.com and other unforeseen events or circumstances. Other than as required by law, Anatolia does not intend, and undertakes no obligation to update any forward looking information to reflect, among other things, new information or future events.