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(PRS.H) Miranda Gold (MAD-V) acquires Cerro Oro project from Prism Resources (PRS.H-V) Jan 31, 2013 - News Release Miranda Gold Corp. has acquired through lease the Cerro Oro project in Colombia and has signed an agreement in principle with Prism Resources Inc. to earn an interest in the project. Cerro Oro covers approximately 700 hectares and lies within the Caldas department approximately 120 kilometres south of Medellin or approximately midway between the Gran Colombia's historic epithermal Marmato project and Batero Gold's porphyry gold-epithermal Quinchea projects in the prolific Middle Cauca gold belt. The Cerro Oro acquisition is the result of careful screening of third party properties in selected areas compatible with Miranda's in-house generative model within the Cauca gold belt. The generative model focuses on identifying large epithermal and porphyry-epithermal gold systems. Project details The Cerro Oro project is currently in application stage and an exploration financing agreement with Prism will take effect and is contingent upon the application being converted to a licence. Miranda expects the licence to be granted by the end of the second quarter of 2013. At Cerro Oro gold-silver mineralization is hosted in sericitic and argillically altered 2-3MA volcanic tuffs and flows of the Combia formation associated with extensive multidirectional hematitic fractures zones. This formation overlies porphyry systems elsewhere in the Cauca belt. Gold has a geochemical association with arsenic, mercury and antimony and generally low or background base metal values. Discreet veining is restricted although inferred late-stage quartz-stibnite-gold veins occur locally. Outcrop exposure is limited to creek beds but these exposures suggest alteration and mineralization occurs over two or more square kilometres. Alteration seems controlled predominantly along a northwest-trending structural zone up to 600 metres wide. Notably it is common to recover fine free gold by panning crushed outcrop samples and artisanal miners are locally recovering free gold from in situ rock by small-scale hydraulic mining. Surface exposures are intensely weathered and oxidized but one subcrop exposes mineralization that is typified by close-spaced, pyritic, generally open fractures with minor silica selvages. Miranda infers that alteration and mineralization style at Cerro Oro represent a fracture-controlled to disseminated, low-sulphidation epithermal gold system and an initial bulk-tonnage target is presented. Limited reconnaissance mapping and prospecting suggest alteration is zoned from argillic to siliceous alteration with depth and that the alteration cell at Cerro Oro may have a spatial and structural relationship to porphyry-style mineralization several kilometres away. Twenty surface rock samples returned maximum assay values of 3.3 grams per tonne gold (g/t Au) and 28 g/t silver (Ag). Early exploration work will include prospecting and mapping to define the limits of the mineralized system and identify structural controls. Soil grids will be initiated from areas of artisanal mining to be followed up by trenching to advance drill targets. Agreement details The underlying lease agreement on Cerro Oro required payment of a $10,000 (U.S.) on signing and a subsequent payment of $80,000 (U.S.) upon conversion of the application to a licence. To maintain the lease, annual escalating payments that total $525,000 over five years will be required and thereafter annual payments of $135,000. The project is also subject to a 1.2-per-cent production royalty and a per ounce bonus for measured and indicated National Instrument 43-101-compliant resource and reserves. The agreement in principle with Prism takes effect and is conditional upon the execution of definitive documentation, the Cerro Oro applications being converted to a licence and applicable regulatory and stock exchange approvals. Upon satisfaction of the foregoing conditions, Prism will reimburse Miranda for all underlying lease payments paid by Miranda and Prism will be obligated to finance exploration-related expenditures of $4-million (U.S.) to earn a 51-per-cent interest and through additional financing can earn an additional 19 per cent for a total interest of 70 per cent. Data disclosed in this press release have been reviewed and verified by vice-president of exploration Joseph Hebert, CPG, BSc, geology, and qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. We seek Safe Harbor.