Major Gold Producers Reported Reserves of 719.7 Million Ounces (Over 22,000 Tonnes) in 2005; AZHA-ZNXT Mining Briefly Discusses Gold Mining & Production

Market Wire, April, 2009

AZHA Mining (formerly ZNext Mining Industries, Inc.) (PINKSHEETS: ZNXT) (OTC Preferred: ZNXPP) received its CUSIP # 05477T 109 & ISIN # US05477T 1097. Stock Symbol will soon follow when all the required documents by FINRA MDI NASDAQ have been fully submitted.

Please note that Dividends Distribution are given only to ZNXT Mining Common Shareholders of April 20, 2009 Record date. These AZHA Mining Dividends are NOT a Forward Split nor are they a REVERSE Split. The ratio is that for every 50 ZNXT Common, a total of 75 AZHA Common shares are to be issued to the ZNXT beneficial common shareholders of record as of April 20, 2009. The 75 AZHA Mining Common Shares are appropriated as follows: 25 Un-Restricted (Free Trading) and 50 Restricted of AZHA Common Shares; this is in addition to their ZNXT holdings that will be converted automatically to AZHA common stocks.

AZHA is hopeful that as soon as the dust settles during this re-organization, the shareholders should start receiving or seeing the dividends to show within 2-3 weeks and that all updates on the PINKS OTC information will soon be posted in a timely manner.

CEO George Carpio understands the immense challenges ahead as he assures optimism that he can steer the ZNEXT Mining out of its mining dormancy due to various obstacles such as environmental factors, permitting issues and most of all the economic meltdown in which the company has been stalled. He further believes that the new management team members have plenty going to get the job done. The shareholders need to be reassured that to restructure this governance of the mining operation plans with AZHA's preferred approach are applied. AZHA will do whatever it can to bring this mining company into production and profitability. AZHA is hopeful that the company's ultimate goal would be just at hand.

Mining can be a wonderful and profitable business when it's on the upside, particularly when the business plan is properly structured. To start with, AZHA discusses a brief overview and understanding of gold mining and production.

--  HOW GOLD IS PRODUCED?  Gold mining is an intensive process that
    requires careful and responsible management The process of
    producing gold (from both underground and surface operations) can be
    divided into six main phases: (1) finding the ore body; (2) creating
    access to the ore body;(3) removing the ore by mining or breaking the
    ore body; (4) transporting the broken material from the mining face to
    the processing plant for treatment; (5) gold processing; and (6)
    refining to 99.999%. For further details, please visit
     www.trustingold.com 
--  SMALL SCALE MINING -- PANNING  Wide shallow pans are filled with sand
    and gravel that may contain the rock and other material (because gold
    is denser than rock, it quickly settles to the bottom). The silt is
    usually taken from a stream bed, often at the bend of the stream, or
    from the bedrock, where the weight of gold causes it to settle out of
    the water flow.
--  LARGE SCALE MINING: Finding the ore body -- global or regional,
    geological exploration programme identifies targets and undertakes
    exploration.
    (1)  OPEN PIT MINING: In open-pit mining, drilling and blasting is
         generally needed to release the gold bearing rock. Excavators then
         load the material onto the ore transport system.
    (2)  UNDERGROUND MINING:  In underground mining, holes are drilled in
         the ore body, filled with explosive and blasted. The blasted
         'stopes' or 'faces' are cleaned before the ore is released, ready
         for transportation out of the mine. Underground mining methods are
         far more variable than open pit mining. The approach used must be
         the most cost effective one that fits in with the configuration of
         the ore zones, the strength of the ore, and the surrounding rock.
--  GOLD PROCESSING: The most common means of recovering gold is the
    cyanidation process. Cyanidation involves the leaching of ore in a
    strictly controlled alkaline cyanide leach solution, after which the
    gold is then re-dissolved, and subsequently smelted into dore bars that
    are shipped to the gold refineries. The residual waste rock is then
    generally recycled in land-fill landscaping projects, processing and
    refining. The dore U bars are further refined to become as close to
    pure gold OF 99.99% as possible, in the form of gold bullion bars.
    They are then given 'gold' delivery status, the international standard
    for quality, providing assurance that they contain the quantity and
    purity of gold that has been stamped on them.

COMMON Q & A

WHAT IS THE AVERAGE COST OF MINING PER OUNCE?

The average cost of replacing and producing an ounce of gold rose to $428/oz in 2005, a ten-year high, according to Metals Economics Group, based on a study of 18 major gold producing companies. However, costs vary widely between companies and the mines themselves.

 

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