Atico Mining Corporation announced that ongoing underground drilling at its El Roble mine project in Colombia has discovered a significant new massive sulfide body at the north end of known mineralization, which now extends 360 meters along strike and 250 meters below level 2,000, the lowest production level at the mine. The company also reports results of seven new diamond drill core holes (ATDHR-20 through ATDHR-26), which included 119 meters of 6.9% copper and 6.3 g/t gold. The ongoing underground drilling program is adding high-grade copper-gold massive sulfide mineralization lateral to and below El Roble mine workings.

Atico's latest drill results have extended the mineralization 130 meters to the north of the recently discovered Goliath body and at least 250 meters below the 2,000 meter level, the lowest production level at El Roble. New mineralized drill intercepts in holes ATDHR-23, ATDHR-24 and ATDHR-26 are interpreted as comprising two separate massive sulfide bodies, Aquiles and Zeus. Atico's interpretation of these bodies is based on mineralized intercepts, characteristics of the massive sulfide mineralization, known strike and dip of the host black chert unit and structural controls of mineralization at the El Roble mine.

Textures and metal content in the mineralized lenses discovered to date are consistent with zoning patterns found in other VMS (volcanogenic massive sulfide) systems and suggest that further mineralization remains to be discovered in the near mine vicinity. Zeus is located at the northern extremity of the 360 meter strike of the mineralized system at the El Roble mine at a depth of 350 to 450 meters below the surface. This body has been intersected in one drill hole (ATDHR-26), which encountered 119 meters of high-grade mineralization, and has the potential to be as large as the mined-out Main Body, which measured 100 meters down dip by 80 meters along strike by 45 meters thick and produced over 700,000 tonnes of ore.

Diamond drill core hole ATHDR-27 has intersected massive sulfide mineralization approximately 30 meters to the north along strike, which is interpreted as part of Zeus. Assays for this intercept are pending.