NEWS RELEASES May 15, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA PRIVATE PLACEMENT OVERSUBSCRIBED American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that it has increased its previously announced best-efforts private placement from $6,050,000 to $8,140,000 due to strong investor demand. May 12, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA ANNOUNCES DRILL RESULTS AT LA MARTINIERE American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX:BZA) (“Bonanza”) announces positive results from recent drilling at its 100% owned La Martiniere gold property located in northern Quebec. May 11, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA ANNOUNCES PRIVATE PLACEMENT American Bonanza Gold Corp. is pleased to announce it has negotiated, subject to regulatory approval and formal documentation, a best-efforts private placement of flow-through shares and units with Dundee Securities Corporation and Haywood Securities Inc. May 10, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA DEVELOPS NEW COPPERSTONE EXPLORATION MODEL AND DRILLING TARGETS American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce significant progress at its 100% owned high grade Copperstone gold project in Arizona. Apr 25, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA IDENTIFIES MASSIVE SULFIDE POTENTIAL AT FENELON American Bonanza Gold Corp.(TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that recent drilling and geophysics near the Fenelon Gold drilling campaign in northern Quebec has discovered a volcanic-hosted, massive sulfide occurrence (VMS). Apr 21, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA ANNOUNCES HIGH GRADE GOLD IN DRILLING AT LA MARTINIERE American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce important new gold intercepts at its wholly owned La Martiniere gold property located 35 km east of the two-million-ounce Detour Lake gold mine... Apr 6, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA BEGINS EXPLORATION AT LA MARTINIERE American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that it has commenced drilling at its 100% owned La Martiniere gold project located 600 kilometers northwest of Montreal in Northern Quebec. Mar 1, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA EXPLORATION SUCCESS AT FENELON American Bonanza Gold Corp.(TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that it has now completed 11,890 meters of drilling as part of its planned 22,000 meter drill program at the 100% owned Fenelon Gold Property in northwestern Quebec. Feb 16, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA RETAINS ASCENTA CAPITAL PARTNERS INC. TO PROVIDE INVESTOR RELATIONS SERVICES American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that it has retained Ascenta Capital Partners Inc. (“Ascenta”) of Vancouver, British Columbia to provide investor relation and financial communication services. Feb 9, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA CORPORATE UPDATE AND MINERAL RESOURCES UPDATE American Bonanza Gold Corp.(TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce updated resources for properties controlled by the Company. Feb 8, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA REPORTS MINERAL RESOURCE AT COPPERSTONE American Bonanza Gold Corp.(TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce preliminary results of a National Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”) compliant resource estimate for it’s Copperstone underground gold project in Arizona. Feb 2, 2006: RESTATEMENT OF TAURUS RESOURCE ESTIMATE American Bonanza Gold Corp.(TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) has been informed by Wardrop Engineering Inc. (Wardrop) that a restatement is necessary of their original calculation of the resource estimate for Bonanza’s 100% owned Taurus Project... Jan 23, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA INTERSECTS MINERALIZATION BELOW KNOWN GOLD RESOURCES AT FENELON American Bonanza Gold Corp.(TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that it has completed 4,060 meters of core drilling to begin the planned 22,000 meter drilling program at its 100% owned Fenelon Gold Property in northwestern Quebec. Jan 19, 2006: AMERICAN BONANZA ANNOUNCES EXPLORATION PROGRAMS FOR MARTINIERE GOLD PROJECT American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that exploration programs at the 100% owned Martiniere Gold Project in northern Quebec have resumed. Dec 29, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA ANNOUNCES FLOW-THROUGH PRIVATE PLACEMENT American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) announces that it has entered into a non-brokered private placement with Northern Precious Metals 2005 Limited Partnership pursuant to which it has agreed to issue 500,000 flow-through common shares at $ Dec 7, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA COMMENCES FENELON DRILLING American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that Phase I drilling for the 2005-2006 exploration program at the company's 100%-owned Fenelon project in Quebec commenced on December 5th. Dec 1, 2005: NEWS RELEASE CORRECTION - AMERICAN BONANZA INTERSECTS 24.6 METRES OF 2.4 G/T AT GOLD BAR, NEVADA American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) would like to announce a correction to its November 30, 2005 press release. The final interval of drill hole BZGB-8 should read from 655 feet to 665 feet and is corrected... Nov 30, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA INTERSECTS 24.6 METRES OF 2.4 G/T AT GOLD BAR, NEVADA American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that Phase 1 drilling was completed at the company’s 95% owned Gold Bar property on the southern half of the Cortez Trend in Nevada. Nov 23, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA SETTLES FENELON CONTRACTOR LAWSUIT American Bonanza Gold Corp.(TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce a favorable settlement to a lawsuit filed in December, 2004 by a mining contractor against International Taurus Resources Inc. Oct 31, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA - COPPERSTONE AND FENELON PROJECT UPDATES AMERICAN BONANZA GOLD CORP. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that the Pre-feasibility Study on its 100% owned Copperstone Project in Arizona has advanced significantly towards completion. Sep 20, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA EVALUATES LARGE GOLD RESOURCE AT TAURUS American Bonanza Gold Corp. is pleased to announce the commencement of a study to complete a resource estimate and preliminary economic scoping study, pursuant to National Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”), at the Company’s 100% owned Taurus Project. Aug 31, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA DRILLS CORTEZ TREND PROPERTY American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that a drill rig is being mobilized to the company’s 100% owned Gold Bar property on the southern portion of the Cortez Trend in Nevada. Aug 11, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA INITIATES EXPLORATION PROGRAM AT FENELON American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce the commencement of an advanced exploration program at the Company’s 100% owned Fenelon Project... Aug 8, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA CLOSES PRIVATE PLACEMENT TOTALING $4.4 MILLION AMERICAN BONANZA GOLD CORP. is pleased to announce that it has closed the previously announced brokered private placement totaling $4.4 million with a syndicate led by Desjardins Securities Inc. and including Canaccord Capital Corporation. Aug 3, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA REPORTS EXCELLENT METALLURGICAL RESULTS FOR COPPERSTONE American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce excellent metallurgical testwork results from representative drill core composites taken from both the D and Highwall mineralized zones… Jul 21, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA ANNOUNCES PRIVATE PLACEMENT AMERICAN BONANZA GOLD CORP. (TSX: BZA) (“Company”) is pleased to announce that it has negotiated, subject to regulatory approval and formal documentation, a brokered private placement with a syndicate led by Desjardins Securities Inc. and including Canacc Jun 17, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA INITIATES PRE-FEASIBILITY FOR COPPERSTONE American Bonanza Gold Corp. is very pleased to announce that the Pre-Feasibility Study has officially commenced with initial on-site meetings recently held at the Company’s 100% owned high grade gold project, Copperstone in Arizona. Jun 8, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA REPORTS HIGH GRADE DRILLING WITH 32.5 G/T GOLD OVER 4.2 METRES American Bonanza Gold Corp. has confirmed continued very impressive high-grade drilling results from its underground drilling program at its 100-per-cent-owned high-grade Copperstone gold project in Arizona. Jun 2, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA CLOSES RESTRUCTURING OF LOAN FACILITY AMERICAN BONANZA GOLD CORP. is pleased to announce that it has closed the previously announced restructuring of its loan facility with Stonegate Management Limited. May 13, 2005: AMERICAN BONANZA RESTRUCTURES LOAN FACILITY AMERICAN BONANZA GOLD CORP. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with an effective date of April 1, 2005 with Stonegate Management Ltd., a company operating at arms length to Bonanza... NEXT >>> ©2004 American Bonanza Gold Corp. All rights reserved. // // [email protected]