Batero Gold Reports Up To 94 Percent Mineralization At La Cumbre

Batero Gold Corp. (TSXV:BAT) reported additional metallurgical test results from the La Cumbre deposit, at the Batero-Quinchia project in Colombia.

As quoted in the press release:

Positive metallurgical testing yielded gold recoveries of 93% and 94% within 24 hours for mineralization in the oxide zone and recoveries from 82% to 86% within 48-72 hours in the Transitional Zone at La Cumbre. Column leach testing is scheduled to commence in August, 2012.

Brandon Rook, President and CEO of Batero, commented:

In addition to confirming the high recovery of 94% reported from our preliminary testing of the oxide zone at La Cumbre, we are pleased to report new recoveries of up to 86% in the Transitional Zone. We had no previous testing of the Transitional Zone and these results are consistently above the 80% average recovery used in our initial resource estimate reported February 2012. The results of these and additional bottle roll tests will be compared and correlated with the results of future column tests in order to estimate recoveries throughout the volume of high grade mineralization at the La Cumbre deposit.

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