Dorato Expands Anomalous Gold Zone at Lucero Discovery 

VANCOUVER, BC - Dorato Resources Inc. reported the receipt of gold-in-soil and rock assay results received from Minera Afrodita relating to the high priority Lucero discovery located in the Condor Gold-Copper Belt of north-western Peru. Preliminary ridge and trail soil sampling has returned highly anomalous results from 225 soil samples, ranging from below detection to 9.7 g/t gold in soil, with coincident copper, zinc and silver anomalies.

Highest-grade gold and copper anomalies are clustered and broadly coincident with a magnetic anomaly and the southern portion of the electromagnetic (EM) anomaly. Geochemical anomalies are related to mineralized and intensely altered sandstone and adjacent intrusive bodies. Most of the anomalous mineralization thus far is located north of an interpreted fault. This interpretation is supported by a continuous series of samples taken over approximately 500-metres strike length, which grade greater than 0.5 g/t gold. These levels of gold-in-soil are exceptionally high, being measured in grams per tonne (g/t) rather than parts per billion as is normally the case. Copper anomalies are broadly coincident with gold anomalies with a large proportion of samples assaying greater than 1,000 ppm (greater than 0.1% copper). Initial prospecting revealed gold and copper anomalies from rock sampling in the area. In particular, 10 adjacent rock samples from 30 metres of continuous surface sampling contained grades of up to 11.17 g/t gold and averaged 2.85 g/t gold and 0.37% copper. The additional soil sampling results presented here are interpreted, together with the geophysics, to define a significant mineralized system. The company's address is 1920, 1188 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 4A2, 604-638-5817, fax: 604-408-7499.