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Dia Bras Announces Closing of the Last Tranche of CA$558,280 Million Non-Brokered Financing

11:31 EDT Thursday, June 18, 2009

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - June 18, 2009) - Dia Bras Exploration Inc. (TSX VENTURE:DIB) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced private placements (see press releases dated May 9, June 4 and June 11, 2009). The closing of the second tranche consists in 11,165,600 units ("Unit") at a price of $0.05 per Unit.

The second tranche is part of a larger offering of units for an aggregate of 29,676,000 units at $0.05 per unit and gross proceeds to the Company of $1,483,800. Each Unit consists of one common share of the Corporation ("Common Share") and one purchase warrant ("Warrant"). Each Warrant entitles the holder thereof to subscribe to one Common Share at a price of $0.10 for a period of thirty months following closing.

In connection with the placement, the Corporation's major shareholder, Arias Resource Capital Fund L.P. subscribed for a total consideration of $184,280 and purchased 3,685,600 Units, Matterhorn Investment Management LLP subscribed for a total consideration of $200,000 and purchased 4,000,000 Units and Mr. Philip Renaud subscribed for a total consideration of $108,000 and purchased 2,160,000 Units.

After completion of the placement, Arias Resource Capital Fund L.P. holds 89,324,727 Common Shares and 78,781,227 Warrants, representing approximately 38.40% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares. Matterhorn Investment Management LLP holds 28,470,300 Common Shares and 11,500,000 Warrants, representing approximately 12.14% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares and Mr. Philip Renaud holds 16,608,146 Common Shares and 8,637,378 Warrants of the issued and outstanding Common Shares.

A number of insiders of the Corporation participated in the Private Placement by subscribing for Units. Participation of these insiders constituted a "related party transaction" within the meaning of Regulation 61-101 - Protection of Minority Securityholders in Special Transactions (the "Regulation"). However, the Private Placement is exempt from the formal valuation and majority of the minority shareholders approval set out in the Regulation since, at the time the transaction was agreed to: (i) the securities of the Corporation were not listed or quoted on one of the exchanges or markets specifically identified in the Regulation; (ii) neither the fair market value of the securities to be distributed in the Private Placement nor the consideration to be received for those securities, insofar as the transaction involves interested parties, exceeds $2,500,000 and (iii) the Corporation has several independent directors who are not employees of the Corporation; and, at least, two thirds of said independent directors approved the transaction, as per sections 5.5 and 5.7 of the Regulation. The Corporation will not be able to provide a notice of material change within a minimum of 21 days before the closing of the proposed Private Placement, as stipulated in the Regulation; the proceeds of the Private Placement will address immediate working capital needs of the Corporation.

All securities issued under the placement are subject to a four-month hold period which expires on October 9 or 19. After taking into consideration this private placement, the Corporation has a total of 232,640,087 common shares issued and outstanding.

The net proceeds will be used to finance the operations of the Corporation