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Ventana In-Fill Results Continue to Demonstrate Continuity of Gold

Published: 18:41 28 Oct 2009 GMT

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Ventana Gold Corp. (TSX: VEN) announces drill results from eight additional in-fill drill holes at the La Mascota zone on the La Bodega gold project in Colombia. The in-fill holes have increased drill density within the first 800 metres of strike and extended the drilled depth along dip. The results highlight several higher grade intersections including 20.94 metres with a grading of 7.32 grams per tonne of Gold.


Ventana has also accelerated the exploration program at La Mascota with the addition of a tenth rig.


Ventana is a Vancouver-based mineral exploration and development company with mineral rights to 4,573 hectares of exploration property in north-eastern Colombia. The 2009 drill program is part of Ventana's ongoing gold exploration program in the California-Vetas gold mining district of northeast Colombia. Ventana's exploration activities are currently concentrated on the high grade La Mascota zone.


The eight hole phase of the drilling programme returned many intersections with varying intervals and grading.

Intersections include several higher concentrations across 4-5 metres with grading between 20 and 30 grams per tonne of Gold, and broad lower intersections including 45 meters at 4.27 grams per tonne of Gold. The reported holes continue to demonstrate continuity along strike and extend the deposit down-dip.


The La Mascota initial resource calculation, interpretation of the mineralized structure is ongoing with independent consultants Warren Pratt, Rob Sim and Bruce Davis.


Ventana President and CEO Steve Orr commented on the stepping up of the drilling operation at La Mascota project:


"Ventana currently has eight core drills conducting infill and extension drilling on the La Mascota deposit. Another two drills are expected to arrive by the end of October and we then plan to begin drilling on Las Mercedes, a parallel mineralized zone adjacent to and east of La Mascota. Exploration is also continuing with one drill on the step-out drilling along the additional 1.3 kilometres of tenements we control along the mineralized trend."

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