Aurania Resources Ltd. reported that the first drill hole at the Tsenken N1 target intersected sediment-hosted copper in the Company's Lost Cities ­ Cutucu Project (‘Project’) in southeastern Ecuador. The first drill hole at Tsenken N1 (TSN1-001) reached a depth of 722 metres (‘m’) and native copper was intersected within 2m of the maximum depth that the small-format drill could reach. The second drill hole on the target is now underway. Mineralization is immediately beneath a 75m thick lava layer that constitutes an impermeable barrier within the permeable sedimentary strata. Though the intersection was modest with grades below economic levels, the occurrence of native copper beneath the impermeable layer within the red beds is a key piece of evidence supporting the exploration model that the Company is using for sediment-hosted mineralization. The next step is to drill through the impermeable layer near the crest of a fold where the model predicts that more robust mineralization should be located. The second scout drill hole at Tsenken N1 is aimed at just such a target. Planned Work on Sediment-hosted Copper at Tsenken - It has become apparent that sediment-hosted copper is leached by present-day weathering from the near-surface in the Project area, except where it occurs with carbonized, fossil plant fragments. Elements that occur with the sediment-hosted copper, such as silver, rhenium and molybdenum, that are not as intensely leached by today's tropical weathering, are being used as proxies for copper in soil sampling data to define the extent of potential copper-bearing layers. Field data is being used to identify folds in the impermeable lava that would have constituted trap sites for oil and sour (sulphur-bearing) gas that is likely to have provided sulphur for the accumulation of copper sulphide mineralization. Evaporites associated with salt also contain sulphur-bearing minerals (sulphates) and specific faults have been identified as features along which salt has risen to form reactive walls against which copper-bearing basin fluids would accumulate and reacting with sulphur to form copper sulphide mineralization. One of these salt-bearing faults. Rationale for Drill Hole 2 - Sediment-hosted copper accumulates in sedimentary basins; depressions into which sediments accumulate over millennia. Copper is gradually stripped from sedimentary particles in the basin, as well as from porphyries that intrude the basin. The copper is dissolved in saline water within the basin. Also in the basin, oil and gas can be generated from shale and limestone that contain abundant organic matter. Hydrocarbons can efficiently strip copper from the saline fluids that circulate in the basin ­ and hence their exploration model focuses on where copper-bearing fluids are likely to have been channeled into oil and gas traps. The first drill hole at Tsenken N1 intersected the lava seal near the bottom of a fold, well away from the crest where oil and gas are likely to have accumulated. The elemental copper intersected is the footprint of a copper-bearing fluid that flowed through the permeable red-beds until it was trapped beneath the impermeable lava layer. Hole TSN1-002 is aimed to drill through the lava seal higher in the arch-shaped fold where there should have been more gas and oil, providing a larger trap site for the copper-bearing brine to have interacted with the hydrocarbon, potentially precipitating copper sulphide mineralization. The hole is planned to be drilled to a depth of approximately 450m with the lightweight rig.