Challenger Exploration Limited announced the results from a series of three drillholes at Cerro Norte, which were designed to step-out to the west and test a target generated by the Company's recent geophysics program. The drill holes are located in an area of no outcrop and no previous drilling 200 metres west and 500 metres north of the currently defined mineralisation in the Gap Zone. The holes were targeted using the Company's recent surface magnetics and IP (Induced Polarisation) test lines at Cerro Norte. The IP and magnetics indicated a possible second trend of intrusives under cover with the same north-south orientation as the Gap Zone mineralisation where recent drilling has returned intersections of 227.0 metres at 1.0 g/t AuEq, including 84.0 metres at 2.0 g/t AuEq (GNDD113A) and 209.0m at 1.1 g/t AuEq, including 49.0m at 3.0 g/t AuEq (GNDD-155). Drillholes GNDD-163 (45m at 0.5 g/t AuEq), GNDD-164 (117m at 0.5 g/t AuEq) and GNDD-169 (125.5m at 1.1 g/t AuEq including 71.0m at 1.8 g/t AuEq) all intersected significant widths of mineralisation hosted predominantly in intrusives. This is interpreted as a new trend of mineralisation that appears to have the same north-south orientation as, and is approximately 200 metres west of, the known zone of intrusive-hosted mineralisation in the Gap Zone.