Amera Options Cercana Porphyry Copper Property

VANCOUVER, BC - Amera Resources Corporation reported that it has entered into an option to acquire a 100% interest in the 1,075 hectare Cercana porphyry copper project located in Arequipa department, southern Peru. The property is situated within the Paleocene Southern Peru Porphyry Copper Belt, which encompasses major producing copper mines such as Cerro Verde, Cerro Negro, Cuajone, Quellaveco and Toquepala. Although a thin layer of volcanic ash covers most bedrock on the Cercana claims, recent bulldozer trenching and road cuts have exposed copper oxide mineralization grading up 0.22% copper over 24m and up to 2.5% copper from grab samples.
"The addition of the Cercana property to Amera's Peruvian portfolio is an important accomplishment and will add significant value as exploration unfolds," stated Nikolaos Cacos, President & CEO. "This project is located amongst large-scale producing copper porphyry mines."
Amera's immediate exploration plans for this project includes geologic mapping, additional trenching, channel sampling, ground geophysics and drilling. A surface program is currently underway on the project.
In the course of Amera's technical due diligence on the property a total of 47 rock samples were collected, including several long composite chip samples from trenches and road cuts. Values range from less than 0.005 to 0.404 g/t gold, less than 0.02 to 302 g/t silver, 43 ppm to 2.5% copper and less than 1 to 411 ppm molybdenum. The average copper grade for all 47 rocks collected was 0.56% copper.
The company's address is Suite 709, 837 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 3N6, 604.687.1828, fax: 604.687.1858.