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Gold/Mining/Energy : Corriente Resources V.CTQ Junior Exploration Co.
CTQ 25.450.0%Sep 6 5:00 PM EST

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To: ogi who wrote (1365)5/2/2000 7:23:00 PM
From: jerry janko  Read Replies (1) of 1416
 
Corriente receives Warintza drilling results

Corriente Resources Inc CTQ
Shares issued 21,387,832 May 2 close $3.05
Tue 2 May 2000 News Release
Mr. Kenneth Shannon reports
Results have been received from the initial drill program on the Warintza
project, which is one of the copper targets in the Corriente copper belt in
southeast Ecuador. A man portable diamond drill completed 16 drill holes
totalling 2,300 metres. This drill rig allows Corriente to complete scout
testing from small drill sites that are accessed by a network of light
trails instead of the more normal large drill pads and access roads.
Results of the drilling confirm the presence of a high-grade (>1 per cent
Cu) supergene blanket at Warintza and also indicate the local presence of
high-grade (>1 per cent Cu) primary sulphide mineralization. Results are as
follows:

From To Width Copper Moly
Hole m m m % ppm

1 63 145 82 1.37 251

145 213 end 68 0.28 299

2 45 62 17 1.16 283

62 103 end 41 0.42 190

3 58 84 26 0.93 250

84 90 6 0.32 27

90 100 10 1.09 180

100 184 end 84 0.14 410

4 102 114 12 0.66 396

114 136 22 0.50 375

136 251 end 115 0.25 309

5 124 153 end 29 1.19 328

6 50 68 18 0.47 286

68 152 end 84 0.18 418

7 63 158 95 1.20 444

158 182 24 0.53 483

182 217 end 35 0.15 415

8 0 8 8 0.73 137

8 42 34 0.41 239

42 60 18 0.64 129

60 76 16 0.64 176

76 138 end 62 0.78 358

9 52 110 58 0.84 226

Leached
110 119 9 0.21 133

119 146 end 27 0.70 197

10 95 106 11 0.63 116

106 135 end 29 0.55 161

11 46 72 26 1.04 225

72 150 end 78 0.52 148

12 35 55 20 1.13 159

55 75 end 20 0.11 26

*13 0 92 end 92 0.18 41

*14 11 88 end 77 0.21 12

15 125 155 end 30 1.07 395

*16 37 138 end 101 0.27 15

* Holes 13, 14 and 16 are drilled outside the main anomaly. Intervals
outside the zones noted above have been leached of copper. A standard
exploration procedure to convert molybdenum analyses (in parts per million)
to copper equivalent (in per cent) is to multiply the molybdenum values by
six. As can be noted on the table of results, there are a number of
intersections above 0.9 per cent Cu, the threshold set by Corriente as a
minimum exploration target. In addition, there are several intersections of
primary mineralization above the target grade, which was unexpected. These
drill holes test the central part (approximately 700 metres long) of a
copper-molybdenum geochemical anomaly which extends over four kilometres.
The deposit is also open at depth as all drill holes were stopped in copper
mineralization.
J. David Lowell had the following comments regarding the drilling results:
"I believe it is significant that the supergene enrichment blanket is well
defined, continuous and subhorizontal with probable extensions to the south
and west. These facts, combined with the relatively high primary grades
improves the possibility that minable tonnage and grade will ultimately be
delineated at Warintza or one of our other porphyry copper targets. There
is a reasonable chance that the Corriente copper belt may ultimately become
one of the world's significant copper districts."
Work will now shift to the Chancho project approximately 80 kilometres to
the south as part of the company's continuing program to complete scout
drilling on a number of copper targets within the belt. Drill sites are
being prepared and work should start approximately mid-May. Surface
sampling, completed as part of the preparation for drilling, has confirmed
the presence of strong supergene chalcocite mineralization in the area
planned for the first phase of the program.
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