Initial Assay Results Of The Infill Drilling
Program At Panoro's Antilla
Project Joint Venture, Peru
- Vancouver, B.C. and Lima, Peru -- Panoro Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: PML, Lima: PML, Frankfurt: PZM)
("Panoro") is pleased to announce the assay
results from the first four drillholes from the 2010
infill drilling program at the East Block at the Antilla
Copper-Molybdenum Project in Peru. The results were provided by Panoro's JV partner, Chancadora Centauro SAC (Centauro), the
operator of the project and are as follows:
|
Drillhole
|
From (m)
|
To (m)
|
Thickness (m)
|
Cu (%)
|
Mo (%)
|
|
ANT-68
|
35
|
82
|
47
|
0.83
|
0.012
|
|
|
102
|
122
|
20
|
0.47
|
0.012
|
|
ANT-70
|
50
|
112
|
62
|
0.54
|
0.004
|
|
|
134
|
146
|
12
|
0.33
|
0.005
|
|
ANT-71
|
22
|
96
|
74
|
0.66
|
0.006
|
|
including
|
22
|
54
|
32
|
0.74
|
0.004
|
|
and
|
68
|
96
|
28
|
0.75
|
0.008
|
|
ANT-72
|
12
|
40
|
28
|
0.52
|
0.017
|
One of the holes, ANT-71, is located within the previously delineated high
grade zone while the other three are either on its margin or outside of it. The
results received so far are consistent with expectations and continue to
confirm the Company's resource model. The locations of all completed and
proposed holes are shown on Figure 1 on the Antilla
page of the Company's website.
To date, 19 drillholes totaling 2,243 metres have been completed. Logging and sampling of the
core is underway and additional assay results will be made public as they are
received.
The Antilla JV agreement with Centauro
was signed in April 2010 and based on that agreement Centauro
was due to make a payment to Panoro of $US 4 million
on July 16, 2010. As of the filing of this press release, that payment has not
been received and Panoro is working to resolve the
matter as quickly as possible.
About the Antilla Project
The Antilla Project NI 43-101 resource includes a
high grade zone of 70 million tonnes at 0.56% copper
and 0.011% molybdenum. The resource is contained within the East Block where
mineralization consists of a tabular blanket of supergene sulphide
mineralization dominated by chalcocite and molybdenite. The East Block mineralization is open to the
north and northeast and similar mineralization has been identified in the West
Block but is yet to be drilled. Infill drilling of the high grade zone has the
potential to increase its grade.
About Panoro
Panoro's strategic focus is to move its advanced
stage copper and copper/gold projects to feasibility and development and to
explore its other projects. Panoro has a large
portfolio of exploration projects in Peru, of which the Cotabambas
and Antilla Projects contain NI 43-101 Inferred level
resources of:
Cotabambas Project 114 million tonnes
at 0.68% copper and 0.38 g/t gold
Antilla Project 154 million tonnes
at 0.47% copper and 0.009% molybdenum.
The 9.900 hectare Cotabambas Project contains the Ccalla and Azulccacca
porphyry-copper gold deposits which are separated by approximately 900m.
Mineralization in both deposits is open to depth and laterally as well as in
the area between them. Panoro is planning magnetometric and induced polarization geophysical surveys
to confirm targets before commencing exploration drilling.
The Company is also planning geophysical surveys followed by Phase 1
exploration drilling targeting skarn and porphyry
copper mineralization at its 100% owned Kusiorcco
Copper Project elsewhere in the region.
Drilling at the Antilla project is being carried out
by Centauro and all samples were assayed by ACME
Analytical Laboratories (Chile) S.A. The information provided by Centauro and contents of this news release were reviewed by
Fred Tejada, P.Geo., the
Company's VP-Exploration, a Qualified Person as defined in NI43-101.
On behalf of the Board of
Panoro Minerals Ltd.
Luquman Shaheen, M.B.A., P.Eng., P.E.
President, CEO and Director
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Panoro Minerals Ltd.
Luquman Shaheen, President
& CEO
Phone: 604.684.4246
Fax:604.684.4200
Email: info@panoro.com
Web: www.panoro.com
Investor Relations
Jim Glass, Ascenta Capital Partners Inc.
Phone: 604.684.4743 ext. 225
Phone: 866.684.4209
Email: jim@ascentacapital.com
This release
was prepared by management of the Company who takes full responsibility for its
contents. Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as
that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.