Berkeley Eng Share News (BKY)

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Berkeley Resources Limited (BKY.LN) Monday announces the start of the first phase of Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling at the Salamanca Uranium Project in Spain. MAIN FACTS: -Three rigs have been mobilized to site and are drilling with another rig to start shortly. -This new program aims to achieve the following objectives: * To upgrade the current resource classifications from Indicated to Measured and from Inferred to Indicated * To test for lateral and depth extensions of the current resource in areas where recent diamond drilling has shown the deposits are open * To test a number of high priority targets identified by surface mapping and ground radiometrics that are proximal to the existing resource * To complete sterilization drilling of the area to the north of Sageras where the conceptual waste dump and crushing facility have been located. -Shares at 0727 GMT unchanged at 67.0 pence. -By Iain Packham, Dow Jones Newswires; 44-20-7842-9269; iain.packham@dowjones.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires June 28, 2010 03:29 ET (07:29 GMT)