VANCOUVER, June 9, 2011 – Sona Resources Corp. (the “Company” or “Sona”;

TSX-V:SYS, Frankfurt-QS7) is pleased to announce the start of a 4,500-metre

underground diamond drill program at its 100 percent owned Elizabeth Gold Deposit

Property (“Elizabeth”), located in the Lillooet Mining District of southern British Columbia.

The initial drilling will target the West Vein gold mineralization via drill bays being cut into

the Upper Adit’s east and west walls. The program will test an area along strike and

down dip from the West Vein mineralization. The Company will also drill to confirm the

Southwest Vein’s position along strike to the northeast of the known gold mineralization.

In July, the Company plans to commence surface diamond drilling programs of

3,000 metres at Elizabeth, and 5,000 metres at the formerly producing Blackdome Gold

Mine (“Blackdome”).

“We’ll be drilling aggressively at both properties to expand the known resources and

increase our confidence in them,” says John P. Thompson, Sona’s President and CEO.

The drilling at Elizabeth will target the southwestern extension of the Southwest gold

zone mineralization, along strike and down dip. The most southwesterly drill section has

already intersected true-width composite assays of 109.5g Au/t over 1.1 metres

(E10-67), 20.0g Au/t over 0.7 metres (E04-11A), and 77.9g Au/t over 2.2 metres

(E10-69), at depths below surface of 30 metres, 55 metres, and 70 metres, respectively.

This high-grade gold mineralization is open along strike and down dip. The entire

Southwest Zone, which now extends approximately 350 metres along strike, has not yet

been drilled below 200 metres depth.

The drilling at Blackdome will target the untested southern extension of the Giant Vein

for over one kilometre of strike length, between the known gold resource and an outcrop

of gold mineralization that was sampled in 2007 and returned values between 0.30 and

9.32g Au/t (news release dated September 11, 2007).

The content of this news release has been reviewed by John P. Thompson, a Qualified

Person for the purposes of NI 43-101, with the ability and authority to verify the

authenticity and validity of the data herein.

Since its inception in 1990, Sona has engaged in exploration activities at its mineral

properties in Canada and the United States, as well as small-scale gold production at its

flagship property, the 100 percent owned Blackdome Gold Mine, in south-central British

Columbia, 250 kilometres north of Vancouver. At Blackdome, the indicated mineral

resources are estimated at 144,500 tonnes, grading 11.29g Au/t and containing

52,600 ounces of gold; and the inferred resource is estimated at 90,600 tonnes, grading

8.79g Au/t (news release dated May 4, 2010). At its 100 percent owned Elizabeth Gold

Deposit Property, 30 kilometres south of the Blackdome Gold Mine, Sona has outlined

an inferred gold resource of 522,900 tonnes, grading 12.3g Au/t and containing

206,100 ounces of gold (news release dated June 8, 2009).

Sona aims to bring its permitted Blackdome mill back into production over the next two

years at a rate of 200 tonnes per day, with feed from the formerly producing Blackdome

Gold Mine and the Elizabeth Gold Deposit Property. A positive Preliminary Economic

Assessment by Micon International Ltd. (news release dated May 28, 2010), based on a

gold price of $950 per ounce over eight years, has estimated a cash cost of $208 per

tonne milled, or $686 per gold ounce recovered.

Sona also holds a 100 percent interest in the Montgolfier Project, located in Quebec,

40 kilometres east of the multimillion-ounce Casa Berardi Mine gold deposit.

802–1166 Alberni Street

Vancouver, BC, Canada V6E 3Z3

Tel: +1 (888) 236-5200

Fax: +1 (604) 684-6678

E-mail: info@sonaresources.com

Media Inquiries

Victor Webb/Madlene Olson

Marston Webb International

Tel: +1 (212) 684-6601

Fax: +1 (212) 725-4709

E-mail: marwebint@cs.com

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