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February 18, 2009 -- El Ni�o Ventures Inc. (TSX.V:
ELN) ("El Ni�o " or "the Company") is pleased to announce it has retained the services
of AGORACOM Investor Relations ("AGORACOM") (http://www.agoracom.com) to provide
online investor relations services, a Web 2.0 social network for
current shareholders and Tier-1 awareness through the world's biggest
websites for the purpose of attracting new shareholders.
Online Investor Relations Maximizes Speed, Transparency and Access to
Company
In response to overwhelming data representing the online research and
communications habits of small-cap investors, El Ni�o has turned the
primary focus of its investor relations to the web via the AGORACOM
system to facilitate faster, better and more accessible communications
with both current and prospective shareholders around the world.
Effective immediately, a customized and monitored El Ni�o IR HUB will
be available on AGORACOM at (http://agoracom.com/ir/elnino
). The IR HUB will allow El Ni�o to communicate with all investors
simultaneously, anytime and in near real-time. This HUB will provide El
Ni�o management with the ability to extend communications beyond text
via audio messages, video presentations, webcasts and podcasts. In
addition to traditional e-mail, investors will also have the ability to
receive all communications via RSS feed.
The "AGORACOM 100"
On January 19th AGORACOM launched a Canadian TV, web and search engine
marketing campaign to drive small-cap investors to the "AGORACOM
100", an elite and exclusive group of great Canadian small-cap
companies in which El Ni�o will be included. This marketing campaign
will target main stream media including daily spots on BNN, CNBC TV,
Bloomberg TV, Globe & Mail's GlobeInvestor.com, Google, Yahoo, MSN,
AOL, Facebook, AGORACOM and an array of other Tier 1 properties.
Launch of El Ni�o Ventures Community
The El Ni�o IR HUB propels the Company into the forefront of Web 2.0
community building by providing investors with two very important
functions. First, a monitored discussion forum for the purposes of
constructive and high-quality discussion amongst investors that is free
of spam, profanity and misinformation. Second, a social network that
provides investors with the ability to create extensive profiles that
include photos, bios, video messages to fellow investors, a rating
system and other important items to create a closer bond between our
shareholders.
Tier-1 Exposure and Awareness
As an exclusive provider of "Small-Cap Centres -- Powered by
AGORACOM" to Globe Investor, Yahoo Finance Canada, AOL Finance
Canada and every Blackberry device, AGORACOM will provide Tier-1
financial coverage of all newsworthy El Ni�o press releases for the
purposes of attracting new and prospective shareholders.
El Ni�o President & CEO Jean Luc Roy states, "I believe the
time has now come to significantly increase our communications with
both existing shareholders and the massive online small-cap community
of investors that are searching for solid and proven companies with
real projects. I strongly encourage our shareholders to begin taking
advantage of our new online IR system, which demonstrates we are a
fully accessible organization. Our 2008 exploration efforts, in the
Democratic Republic of Congo ("DRC") has been a true success
and we look forward to moving forward our Kasala copper project and
also to start working on our other prospective projects in the DRC".
For all future El Ni�o investor relations needs, investors are asked to
visit our IR Hub at http://agoracom.com/ir/ElNino
where they can post questions and receive answers within the same day,
or simply review questions and answers posted by other investors.
The terms of the agreement are as follows: Duration - 12 months.
Monthly Cash Compensation of $2,500 plus GST. Stock Options - 200,000
stock options granted at an exercise price of $0.10 per common share
for a period of two years, subject to regulatory approval. This
agreement has been negotiated entirely at arm's length. There is no
market making arrangements. AGORACOM is located in Toronto, Ontario.
About AGORACOM
AGORACOM Investor Relations (http://www.AgoracomIR.com)
is North America's largest online investor relations firm for small-cap
companies. We have partnered with the world's biggest internet
companies, including Yahoo, Globe Investor, AOL, Google and Blackberry
to market our clients to a massive audience of new small-cap investors.
We have served over 300 companies since 1997.
AGORACOM Investor Relations has displaced the telephone and e-mail as
primary IR communications devices. Our IR HUB delivers two-way investor
relations in near real-time that is 24/7/365 accessible to shareholders
around the world and goes far beyond text by offering both audio and
video communications.
AGORACOM (http://www.Agoracom.com)
is North America's only small-cap community built to serve the needs of
serious small-cap and micro-cap investors. No rumours, profanity, stock
bashing or hyping. Our traffic ranking is above the top 0.5% of all
websites around the world.
About El Ni�o Ventures Inc.
El Ni�o Ventures is a junior exploration company, focused on exploring
for Copper/Cobalt in the DRC. El Ni�o has an option to acquire a 70%
interest in over 350 square kilometers in the world renowned copper
belt in the Democratic Republic of Congo ("DRC"). In addition
to our Copper and Cobalt projects in the DRC, the Company has zinc
properties in Ireland and holds a 50 percent interest on an extensive
land package in the Bathurst Mining Camp with Xstrata Zinc
Canada.
The focus of the Company going forward will be the development of its
Kasala Copper Project in the DRC and working on its other very
prospective research permits in the DRC. El Ni�o Ventures reported
earlier the following results from its Kasala Project. The Company
anticipates drilling a minimum of 5,000 meters on the project this year
and also intends to do exploration drilling on their research permit
they acquired with Phoenix Mining. Following is the highlights of the
2008 drill program on the Kasala Project:
- Numerous intercepts
with widths from 50 metres to 91 metres of over 1% Cu
mineralization
- High grade intercepts:
- 7 metres @ 7.07% Cu
(Hole MDB-DD-019)
- 10 metres @ 6.07% Cu
(Hole MDB-DD-011B)
- 11 metres @ 3.68% Cu
(Hole MDB-027)
- 21 metres @ 2.42% Cu
(Hole MDB-026)
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