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SACRE-COEUR MINERALS SETS DRILLING PROGRAM FOR MILLION MOUNTAIN

November 23, 2005

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – SACRE-COEUR MINERALS, LTD. (the "Company") is pleased to announce that core drilling is scheduled to commence in early December 2005 on its Million Mountain Project located in the Lower Puruni Region in central Guyana. Initial focus will be to test strike and dip extensions of the high grade Northwest trending shear zone which was trench sampled by the Company and by its third party QP in March of this year. The trench program tested the structure for 65.9 meters along strike and across a true width of at least 25 meters. The average grade of the continuous trench samples was 14.69 g/t Au. Included within this zone was a continuous sample 46.4 meters in length grading 20.69 g/t Au. Historic shallow drilling to the Southeast of the Company's trenching program, generally along the projection of the known structure, reported similar grades in some holes in excess of 10g/t Au.

Phase I drilling will consist of 3000 meters of HQ and NQ core and is designed to confirm the historic results and extend the data further along strike and to much greater depth. Holes will be drilled from the Northeast side of the structure in vertical fans to intersect the down dip projection of the structure at three or more pierce points for each fan, with pierce points spaced 25 meters apart vertically. This will provide data to approximately 100 meters below surface. Fans will initially be spaced at 50 meter intervals along the structure and will later be infilled during development drilling.

Phase II drilling will be to test the extent of the stock-work vein complex abutting the shear zone on its Southwest side and continuing for an unknown distance to the South and Southwest. The March 2005 trenching program sampled a portion of this stock-work system yielding a total of 236.1meters of trench sample at an average grade of 3.07 g/t Au. Included in the stock-work zone are continuous trench samples of 29.3 meters grading 4.17 g/t Au and 34.1 meters grading 7.23 g/t Au. A part of this component of the drilling program will also be aimed at examining the potential for other shear structures with similar orientation and tenor to the known Northwest trending high grade shear zone.

Drilling will begin in early December 2005 utilizing Kanuku Explorations Inc. ("Kanuku") under contract to the Company. Kanuku is the Guyana affiliate of Fry International, an international drilling company with more than 20 years experience in Guyana. The Company has made a strategic decision to purchase a new Atlas Copco Exploration Products CS 14 wireline core drill with all attendant equipment. The drill is currently being manufactured at Atlas Copco's plant in Marsta, Sweden and will be in the field ready to drill by the end of January 2006. Kanuku will continue drilling until the Company's drill is operating and may continue thereafter to expedite the initial phase of the drilling program.

The Company has hired Mr. Anthony Sudholz as its head driller. Mr. Sudholz has more than sixteen years of wire line core drilling experience with major international drilling contractors. His experience includes drilling environments similar to Million Mountain. Much of this experience has been on a Christiansen CS 1000 P6L drill, the predecessor to the CS 14 purchased by the Company. Irwin Olian, CEO, adds "the Board has made a strategic decision to invest in a Company owned drill as the 'lead drill' to be followed up with contract drills doing development drilling. We have concluded that given the volume of drilling we have slated in Guyana, owning our own drill will substantially expedite our programs, give us maximum operating flexibility, and save the Company more than 30% over prevailing contract drilling rates."

About Sacre-Coeur

The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of properties for the potential mining of gold, metals and diamonds in South America, initially focussing on exploration for gold on its properties in Guyana. The Company presently has an interest in approximately 850 square miles of mineral properties in Guyana, including the Million Mountain Property. The Company has offices in Vancouver, Canada and Georgetown, Guyana. More information about the Company is available at (www.scminerals.com).

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
SACRE-COEUR MINERALS, LTD.

Irwin Olian
Chief Executive Officer and President

For further information, contact:

Irwin Olian, President and CEO
Email: tigertail@scminerals.com
Phone: 604-899-0100
Fax: 604-899-0200

Mark Hatton
Email: mark@scminerals.com
Phone: 250-748-2144
Fax: 604-899-0200

The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the content of the information contained herein. The statements made in this press release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ from the Company's expectations.