Hidalgo Mining International (HMIT) Announces LOI to Expand Fifa Land Project Ownership

Hidalgo Mining International (PINKSHEETS: HMIT), an innovative mining company headquartered in Port Washington, N.Y., announced today that it recently signed a Letter of Intent to expand the Fifa Land Project ownership to encompass the entire Property under that license, a total of 25 square miles.

Mark Daniel Klok, President of HMIT, stated: "I have finished our discussions and negotiated this Letter of Intent to expand and increase our ownership in the Fifa Land Project within Guinea, West Africa. This deal will increase our property holdings, within this Project, to a total of 25 square miles and help ensure long-term sustainability as our commercial mining operation is implemented. This will allow the company to implement production on the 4 mining blocks outlined in the NI 43-101 completed on the Fifa Project and expand that resource with drilling and additional geological work. Our geologist has indicated that the property has the potential of as much as 2 million troy ounces of reserves within the entire area and we look forward to aggressively completing the work needed to update our NI 43-101 and produce within the existing high-grade mining blocks targeted this season. Despite recent difficulties seen within the financial markets, we remain confident that gold and gold mining equities are extremely undervalued and will trade higher over the near and long term. While the price of gold fluctuates daily, it has been rising more or less steadily since 1999. Adjusted for inflation though, we are not anywhere near the all time high for gold as we saw in the early eighties. With gold prices predicted to continue rising, and the fact that gold stocks have outperformed the price of gold since 2004, we are confident that current conditions present a strategic opportunity for the company and its shareholders to pursue active growth."

ABOUT THE FIFA LAND PROJECT

The Fifa land prospecting permit is located in the northwest corner of the Siguiri Basin, approximately 88 kilometres west of the town of Siguiri and approximately 65 kilometres west of the Siguiri gold mine operation that is owned and operated by AngloGold Ashanti. On May 7, 2003, the Guinean Government granted HMM a prospecting permit for gold and associated minerals over an area that forms a rectangle extending north from the Tinkisso River. This permit was issued for a period of two years and is renewable twice for two years, but each time its surface needs to be reduced by half. The permit has been renewed until April 2009. The Fifa land prospecting permit is bound to the south by the Tinkisso River dredging permit. The Fifa permit area is underlain by finely stratified siltites, argillites and minor feldspathic sandstones typical of continental marine platform deposits and filling up most of the Siguiri Basin and is almost entirely covered with laterite duricrust plateaus, pediments and recent alluvial deposits. Outcrops are rare and mostly saprolitic in nature. Immediately south of the Fifa permit area, the pelitic sequences are cut by lenses and larger bodies of monzogranite and granodiorite of the type recognized throughout the Siguiri Basin. Altered and weathered cobbles of a fine to medium grain rock of basic composition (diabase) have also been observed in the area. The ductile deformation affecting the sedimentary sequences is along a general north-northeast axis. East-west attitudes are also noted south of the projects. The linear pattern of some of the streams draining towards the Tinkisso River in and around the area suggests that north-northeast to north-south and east-northeast to north-northeast structures have affected the rocks. The various orientations of quartz veins and some of the ridges observed on the projects and elsewhere are concordant with these orientations. Evidence of hydrothermal activity is obvious on the projects where extensive quartz veining and kaolinite alteration is pervasive. The free gold recovered from the alluvial deposits on the permit area finds its source in the country rocks. Lateritic processes acting in tropical climates have extensively transformed these rocks. Reconnaissance prospecting and soil sampling around the village of Fifa has highlighted the potential of the permit for both lateritic type and primary gold deposits. Several quartz veins related to hydrothermal activities, often associated with gold mineralization, have been found on the permit. Pits and a trench have been excavated to properly sample one of the veins located south of the village of Fifa. The trench revealed that the vein is part of an extensive hydrothermal veining system similar to the one hosting some of the gold deposits at the nearby Siguiri gold mine. Sampling in this trench returned anomalous gold concentration in the altered wall rocks. The highest value obtained was 13.4 grams of gold per tonne over a 60 centimetre section of the trench.

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