ADVISORY/Metallica Resources Updates the El Morro Copper-Gold Project - Chile and Presents Drill Hole Location Maps.

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Metallica Resources

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Metallica Resources (TSX: MR and NYSE: MRB) is a Canadian based mineral and gold mining company. Inc. is providing a project update including drill hole location maps for Metallica's El Morro El Morro is a Spanish term meaning "promontory" or "headland."

Some places called el Morro:

El Morro National Monument, in New Mexico
Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, part of San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico.

copper-gold project, located in north central Chile under option to Noranda Noranda: see Rouyn-Noranda, Que., Canada. Chile S.A. To date, drilling at the El Morro property totals 28,226 meters, which consists of 6,685 meters of reverse circulation drilling and 21,541 meters of diamond drill core. Metallica considers the amount of drilling information adequate to calculate and report an estimated inferred mineral resource on the La Fortuna Zone before the end of the third quarter.

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