El Capitan’s Geological Consultant Gives Positive Status Report to the Company’s Board of Directors

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--El Capitan Precious Metals, Inc. (OTCBB:ECPN) reports: Last week the Geological Consultant for ECPN, Clyde L. Smith, Ph.D., P.Eng., gave a verbal report to the Company’s Board of Directors. The report was put on video and may be viewed on the Company website: www.elcapitanpmi.com. In addition there is a 3-D Animated view of the El Capitan Gold-Silver project also on the website.

“Based on currently available assay results, the El Capitan property in New Mexico has a very significant resource potentially producible at today’s metal prices and has a considerable upside opportunity in terms of exploration and discovery of additional deposits.”

A summary of the pertinent parts of the report are:

Dr. Smith summarized by saying, “Based on currently available assay results, the El Capitan property in New Mexico has a very significant resource potentially producible at today’s metal prices and has a considerable upside opportunity in terms of exploration and discovery of additional deposits.”

He discussed the determination that based on assay results from Auric Metallurgical Laboratory on over 12,000 feet of diamond drill core and reverse circulation drill cuttings completed in 2005-6, the El Capitan deposit has a measured resource of 141 million tons. The resource calculation was conducted at GemCon Software International, an internationally recognized software company providing services to the mining industry.

Dr. Smith reviewed a reflected light and electron microscope study conducted in 1996 at the Missouri Bureau of Mines, a nationally recognized lab, that indicated the presence of gold as well as a platinum-bearing mineral on the El Capitan property.

Dr. Smith also reviewed the regional geological setting of the El Capitan deposit within the state of New Mexico and noted that El Capitan is one of 16 significant gold prospects and past producers situated within a north-south-trending belt of over 300 miles in length.

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