Lucky Minerals Inc. announced it continues geological mapping, trenching and channel sampling at the Wayka epithermal gold discovery at its 100% owned 55,000 hectare Fortuna Property in Ecuador. Wayka lies along an elevated ridge that trends northeast with elevations ranging from approximately 3,600 metres to 3,700 metres above sea level and is bound to the East by the El Buitre Porphyry and to the West by the Emma Porphyry. Interpreting the upper portion of the high sulfidation system.

Approximately 188 metres north of Trench 14, a hydrothermal breccia 5 metres wide, comprised of silicified meta-granite and schist fragments in a silica matrix was sampled. Assay results returned anomalous gold. This trench was excavated near the bottom of a partially eroded lithocap comprised mainly of silica, which is exposed as a silicified ridge.

The interpreted schematic cross section below, shows the remnant silica cap in relation to trenches and channels sampled. Mineralization exposed by erosion in Trench 14 returned 8.02 g/t gold across 9 metres and in Trench 21 returned 5.24 g/t gold across 14 metres. Both trenches lie below the interpreted silica cap, whereas Channel 8 and Trench 31 lie within and at the base of the silica cap and returned mainly anomalous gold values.

The current interpreted lithocap appears to be present at an elevation from approximately 3,697 m to 3,643 m while the higher grades trenches are located at an elevation of approximately 3624 m. Lithocaps associated with high sulphidation epithermal systems typically occur as silicic altered rocks with pyrite, either as stratabound replacements, veins and/or breccia cement. Silica caps are erosional remnants of what were once extensive lithocaps and may be considered the upper sections of epithermal systems. Silica caps are mostly barren and/or weakly anomalous of significant gold mineralization. Current field work is focused on surface trenching around the discovery zone.

There are another 35 assays pending from an area in the discovery zone and 7 assays from an area NE of this zone. All exploration work is completed following QA/QC protocols and include the insertion of a coarse blank, a standard and duplicate sample on every batch of 25 samples. Samples are being submitted to ALS Chemex Labs in Quito for preparation work, and the analytical work is completed at their lab facility in Lima, Peru.

ALS Chemex is an ISO certified and accredited laboratory. Results will be released as they are received.