Aura Minerals Inc announced an additional 20 drill holes from the ongoing infill and extension drilling program at its wholly owned copper, gold and silver Aranzazu Mine in Zacatecas State of Mexico.

These results consist of assays from drilling, which targeted the following:
1. Zones southeast along strike from the Glory Hole Zone to the Cabrestante Zone;
2. Deeper drilling to further test for down-dip extensions and
3. The new Zona CC to the south of the Cabrestante Zone.

Assay results from additional drill holes targeting Zona CC are also pending. Zona CC has not been included in any resource calculation to date. Of the 18 reported drill holes, 14 have intercepts of greater than 1.0% copper with significant gold and silver values. Holes AZC-101, AZC-102 and AZC-128, highlighted below, targeted deeper down dip extensions of known mineralization.

Hole AZC-219 from Zona-CC is a follow up to the first reported intersection from drill hole AZC-179 from this zone which returned 45.0 metres of 1.05% Cu, 0.86 gram per tonne Au and 28.83 gram per tonne Ag. This new hole highlights the possible high grade nature of Zona CC and the potential for this zone to grow the overall resource base at the Aranzazu Mine.

Mr Patrick Downey president and CEO of Aura Minerals said that "We continue to receive exceptional drill intercepts at the Aranzazu Mine. We are now expanding the resource along strike and at depth. Zona CC was discovered late in 2010 and we continue to believe that further drilling on this zone could add significant high grade tonnes to the resource and this area is wide open to another new zone called the Esperanza target. These zones will likely form part of our plans for project expansion as they are along strike and could likely be accessed by a new adit from the open pit which is currently being mined."