Metminco Limited announced the results of the assays received for the final two diamond drill holes (plus partial results received for the TS-DH-05) from its Tesorito gold prospect in the Quinchia district, Colombia. The Quinchia district occurs in the mid Cauca Belt, host to large gold deposits such as Buritica (10Mozs), Marmato (8.1Mozs), La Colosa (28Mozs) and Nuevo Chaquiro (5.7Mozs Au & 3.6Mt Cu). The Tesorito prospect occurs 800m southeast of the Company's Miraflores deposit and approximately 3km southeast of the Company's Dosquebradas deposit (0.92Moz gold Resource estimated under NI 43-101 - as disclosed in the Company's announcement dated 7 March 2016). It is also located approximately 2km north of the undrilled Chuscal porphyry target (currently under negotiation). The Company's 1,500m diamond drilling program, was designed to confirm and expand along strike the gold mineralisation intersected in drilling by a previous operator. Particularly, hole TS-DH-02 which reported 384m at 1.01g/t Au from surface to end-of-hole. The program also tested a previously undrilled geophysical anomaly located approximately 300m to the northwest of TS-DH-02. Next Steps at Tesorito: Consolidate the new drill information with historical data including recently sourced geophysical studies. Design a program of drilling to both scope the known high grade mineralisation at surface; and investigate potential repetitions of the high grade zone within the broader intrusive porphyry complex. Investigate the depth potential of mineralised porphyry by considering a deep drill hole to test the depth extension of the high grade gold zone into what is thought to be higher grade base metals at depth. From the results of the Tesorito drilling: all seven holes drilled into Tesorito have returned gold mineralisation from a multi-phase andesitic porphyritic intrusive complex; higher gold grades (TS-DH-02 and TS-DH-07) are continuous and occur within a much broader mineralisation envelope of approximately +0.5 g/t Au envelope; the localised controls on higher order gold mineralisation traversed by TS-DH-02, TS-DH-04 and TS-DH-07 are thought to be NW orientated early phase hydrothermal pulses injected within a NNW ellipsoid dilatational zone. At Tesorito, similarly shaped geochemical anomalies have been interpreted from the soil geochemistry to the north of the mineralisation identified in this drilling potentially representing additional repetitions of similar early phase structurally controlled pulses; to date, porphyry mineralisation has been intersected down to 380m below surface (TS-DH-02). Copper and molybdenum grades are seen to broadly increase with depth in the deeper hole (TS-DH-02); intense phyllic alteration is mapped by the significant induced polarisation (IP) geophysical anomaly on the western edge of the Tesorito porphyry complex and is seen in the surface mapping, soil geochemical sampling and in the drill core (TS-DH-05 and TS-DH-06). This suggests a major hydrothermal system exists approximately 200-300m to the northwest of the locus of the Tesorito prospect. TS-DH-04 was collared from the same platform that was used to drill TS-DH-02 and was drilled at a steeper angle (70 degrees) to test the well-mineralised stockwork veining developed in porphyritic sub-volcanic (shallow depth) dacitic and andesitic intrusives. TS-DH-05 was drilled to test for lateral and upward extensions of the well-mineralised stockwork veining traversed by drill hole TS-DH-02. In addition, TS-DH-05 was designed to test the nature and extent of the mineralisation beneath the >100 ppb gold in soil geochemical anomaly and the high grade gold assays returned from sampling in trenches. TS-DH-06 was drilled principally to test the nature and extent of what has caused the strong IP geophysical response over a north-northeast trending 1,000m long x 300m wide zone developed to the northwest of the gold in soil geochemical anomaly. It was designed to traverse the zone which was modelled to have the strongest coincident chargeability and conductivity readings. TS-DH-07 was designed to test the three-dimensional geometry of the higher-grade mineralisation returned from TS-DH-02 and any mappable controls which could assist in determining the extent and frequency of the higher-grade zones within the porphyry complex. TS-DH-05 confirmed the presence of stockwork veining developed in porphyritic sub volcanic dacitic and andesitic intrusives from 0 to 293m depth down hole, after which it passed into a less veined but increasingly sericite-altered porphyry for the remainder of the hole, which was terminated at 390.5 m. TS-DH-05 returned intercepts of 140.3m at 0.44 g/t Au, 0.58 g/t Ag and 0.05% Cu from 1.7m; 38.7m at 0.40 g/t Au, 1.25 g/t Ag and 0.05% Cu from 179m and 75.8m at 0.60 g/t Au, 0.71 g/t Ag and 0.04% Cu from 259.9m. The extent and tenor of the mineralisation, resembles the results obtained from TS-DH-01 located approximately 100m towards the northeast. TS-DH-06 returned core exhibiting similar lithologies to those encountered in the lower hundred metres of TS-DH-05, comprising increasingly sericite-altered porphyritic dacitic and andesitic intrusive rocks. The intense sericite alteration, commonly referred to as phyllic alteration, is an important component of porphyry-style precious and base metal systems and is considered the likely cause of the strong IP geophysical response. The fact that this significantly intense anomaly extends for nearly 1km along the western limits of the porphyritic intrusive complex is indicative of a large zone of intensive phyllic alteration likely to be associated with a porphyry-style hydrothermal system of significant scale and intensity. TS-DH-06 returned intercepts of 130m at 0.31 g/t Au, 0.48 g/t Ag and 0.03% Cu from 2m including 18.0m at 0.77 g/t Au, 0.96 g/t Ag and 0.07% Cu from 78m. TS-DH-07 drilled through significant intervals of well-veined porphyry similar to that encountered in TS-DH-02 and the upper parts of TS-DH-04 and returned an intercept of 253.1m at 1.01 g/t Au, 0.87 g/t Ag and 0.07% Cu from 2.9m. This includes five intervals of at least 10 meters returning over 0.9 g/t Au, with the most significant being 64.0m at 1.67 g/t Au, 0.91 g/t Ag and 0.11% Cu from 144m.