Orofino Gold Corp. - Gold samples run over 200 grams per tonne (that is 6.25 ounces)

HONG KONG, April 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Orofino Gold Corp. (PINK OTC: ORFG) ("Orofino Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the results from mineralized and un-mineralized material samples, as well as selected representative samples collected from its Colombian projects that ran higher than expected in gold, silver and copper have been re-assayed, these results are attached below. These results give the company four very strong targets and two extremely rich structures to target for Gold and Copper. The company will now implement an airborne magnetometer program as well as begin site preparation for the diamond drilling planned to take place in the second quarter of 2010.

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            Method      WGHT          G6          G6         7AR         7AR
           Analyte       Wgt          Au          Ag          Mo          Cu
              Unit        kg       gm/mt       gm/mt           %           %
               MDL      0.01        0.01           5       0.001       0.001
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                                                            less     greater
    l. Rock             0.27        3.91         149  than 0.001     than 10
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                                                            less     greater
    2. Rock             0.28        1.75          97  than 0.001     than 10
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                                                            less
    3. Rock             0.47       253.1         255  than 0.001       1.272
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                                                            less
    4. Rock             1.88       11.61          86  than 0.001       0.009
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                                                            less
    5. Rock             0.39       97.94         226  than 0.001       0.600
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            Method       7AR         7AR         7AR         7AR         7AR
           Analyte        Pb          Zn          Ag          Ni          Co
              Unit         %           %       gm/mt           %           %
               MDL      0.01        0.01           2       0.001       0.001
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                                                            less        less
    l. Rock             0.36        0.58         237  than 0.001  than 0.001
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                                                            less        less
    2. Rock             0.04        0.27         106  than 0.001  than 0.001
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                     greater                                less
    3. Rock           than 4        7.83         188  than 0.001       0.002
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                        less        less                    less
    4. Rock        than 0.01   than 0.01         171  than 0.001       0.002
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                     greater                                less
    5. Rock           than 4        5.11         203  than 0.001       0.003
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            Method       7AR         7AR         7AR         7AR         7AR
           Analyte        Mn          Fe          As          Sr          Cd
              Unit         %           %           %           %           %
               MDL      0.01        0.01        0.01       0.001       0.001
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                        less                                less
    l. Rock        than 0.01       29.84        0.03  than 0.001       0.005
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                        less                    less        less
    2. Rock        than 0.01       13.07   than 0.01  than 0.001       0.001
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                        less                                less
    3. Rock        than 0.01       12.06        0.10  than 0.001       0.083
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                        less                                less        less
    4. Rock        than 0.01       39.40        0.01  than 0.001  than 0.001
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                                                            less
    5. Rock             0.01        8.07        0.05  than 0.001       0.060
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            Method       7AR         7AR         7AR         7AR         7AR
           Analyte        Sb          Bi          Ca           P          Cr
              Unit         %           %           %           %           %
               MDL     0.001        0.01        0.01       0.001       0.001
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                                    less        less        less        less
    l. Rock            0.002   than 0.01   than 0.01  than 0.001  than 0.001
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                        less        less                                less
    2. Rock       than 0.001   than 0.01        0.01       0.004  than 0.001
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                                    less                                less
    3. Rock            0.003   than 0.01        0.07       0.001  than 0.001
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                        less        less        less                    less
    4. Rock       than 0.001   than 0.01   than 0.01       0.002  than 0.001
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                                    less                    less        less
    5. Rock            0.002   than 0.01        0.12  than 0.001  than 0.001
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About Orofino Gold Corp. (PINK OTC: ORFG)

Orofino Gold is a precious metals acquisition, exploration, and development company. The Company acquires and explores strategically-located precious metals properties in the historically rich gold bearing jurisdictions of Colombia and Mexico. To this end OROFINO has signed an option agreement to acquire several properties in Colombia. The Company is listed on the Pink Sheets under the symbol ORFG.

Forward-Looking Statements

The statements by our officers, and other statements regarding optimism related to the business, expanding exploration and development activities and other statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the Company's business. Words such as expects, anticipates, intends, plans, believes, sees, estimates and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Actual results could vary materially from the description contained herein due to many risk factors that affect the industry the Company operates in and other risk factors listed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings under "risk factors" and elsewhere. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they are made, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this.

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