Atico Mining Corporation reported on the last results of its 2020 drilling program at the La Plata precious metals-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide project in Ecuador. These results continue to report very encouraging intercepts of volcanic massive sulfides while the new 2021 drill campaign begins in Ecuador. True widths are dependent on uncertainties in the local strike and dip of the mineralization and are estimated to be between 76% and 83% of the drill intercept. Drill holes CMLP-20-146 & CMLP-20-150 were both drilled outside of the existing resource polygon. Drilling was performed to test the “Guatuza extension” of the North Block as it shows continuity of the mineralization of the North block in the direction of the Guatuza zone. Drill holes CMLP-20-165 & CMLP-20-167 which were exploratory holes drilled between the South and the North Block, reported additional intercepts which demonstrates the continuity of massive sulfides mineralization between the two known blocks. Diamond drill holes CMLP-20-146 and CMLP-20-150 confirmed continuity of high-grade intercepts as the drilling progressed in the North Block towards the Guatuza zone. This newly discovered continuity is now called the “Guatuza Extension” of the North Block. Even though these latest results are less remarkable than what are used to seeing at this project, they still confirm that mineralization within the VMS lenses continue and repeat as progress north. The Guatuza zone will require more drilling during the 2021 campaign to fully understand the scale and geometry of this discovery. Hole CMLP-20-146 shows two long intercepts of 10.3 and 13.7 meters of volcanic massive and semi-massive sulfides which represents the much larger footprint of the northern block that is fragmented by a post-mineral dyke. Each of these intercepts host a core zone of high-grade polymetallic VMS mineralization. This hole started reporting interesting mineralization at 35 meters from surface and confirmed continuity of the North Block lens as the mineralized body approaches the surface towards north. Hole CMLP-20-150 hosts a high-grade gold-copper interval, reporting 34 g/t Au and 11% Cu over 3 meters within a larger 10.55-meter intercept. This intercept also represents strong copper and gold continuity as progress northward towards the Guatuza Extension zone.