said April 12 thatthe government of the Dominican Republic has re-granted the 330.25-hectare La Tachuelaconcession, to the south and adjacent to the company's mining application over theRomero gold-copper deposit.

The Romero depositforms part of the company's Tireoproperty.

In addition,the company noted that its induced polarization survey continued to yield positiveresults, with the trend of strong chargeability anomalies expanded to at least 7kilometers, from the northern end of the La Tachuela concession to the current southernlimit of the survey.

Upon completionof this phase of geophysics, the company will review the complete data set and ranktargets for drilling.