Mercer Gold Commences Drilling at Guayabales Gold Project, Colombia

DENVER, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercer Gold Corporation ("Mercer Gold" or the "Company") (OTCQB: MRGP, Frankfurt:AN4) announces that drill equipment has been mobilized and is on site at its Guayabales gold project. The contractor for the drill program is Logan Drilling Colombia S.A.S and the program is expected to continue until January 2011.

Drill holes MGDH 01 and 02 are scheduled to drill from the same pad with proposed depth to 150 meters at 45 degrees azimuth and 290 meters at 70 degrees azimuth, respectively. The first five holes scheduled are to test the known Encanto zone and specifically the structures in the Cacica mine.

"We are excited to have mobilized the equipment and finally have it onsite," said Rahim Jivraj, President and CEO of Mercer Gold Corporation.  "After a lot of basic work and based on our encouraging exploration results to date, I look forward to results from this program.  We anticipate leveraging the results from this program toward a significantly larger, more comprehensive 25,000 meter program early next year."

Approximately 2,000 meters of drilling was completed on the Guayabales property in 2008 by its previous option holder with work primarily focused on the Encanto Zone.  

Mercer Gold acquired the option in April 2010. Since that time, a program of mapping, soil sampling and rock chip sampling has led to several new interesting targets. The Company reported a 1 meter channel sample in an area previously unexplored, which yielded a 57 ounce per tonne Ag value. The recent assay results from geochem soil samples returned up to 4.89 ppm Au confirming and delineating previous anomalies, and significantly broadened the original zone of interest at the Encanto Zone. The results also indicated three new targets: the Parallel Zone, Porphyry Target and SW Epithermal Target (click here for map.)

The objective of the current program is to drill 5,000 meters to investigate epithermal and porphyry targets at Guayabales. Subject to its results, a 25,000 meter drill program is scheduled to commence in early 2011.

About Mercer Gold Corporation

Mercer Gold Corporation is focused on gold exploration and resource definition in Colombia.  The Company acquired the prospective Guayabales Gold Project, located in the Marmato Gold District, Department of Caldas, in early 2010. Mercer is exploring the Guayabales property and is seeking to acquire additional prospective gold properties in Colombia.

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The Company is an "OTC Reporting Issuer" under BC Instrument 51-509, Issuers Quoted in the U.S. Over-the-Counter Markets, promulgated by the British Columbia Securities Commission.  Accordingly, certain disclosure in this news release or other disclosure provided by the Company has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of securities laws in effect in Canada, which differ from the requirements of United States securities laws. In Canada, an issuer is required to provide technical information with respect to mineralization, including reserves and resources, if any, on its mineral exploration properties in accordance with Canadian requirements, which differ significantly from the requirements of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") applicable to registration statements and reports filed by United States companies pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. As such, information contained in this news release or other disclosure provided by the Company concerning descriptions of mineralization under Canadian standards may not be comparable to similar information made public by United States companies subject to the reporting and disclosure requirements of the SEC.  This news release or other disclosure provided by the Company may use the terms "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources".  While these terms are recognized and required by Canadian regulations (under National Instrument 43-101,Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects), the SEC does not recognize them.  United States investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits in these categories will ever be converted to reserves.  In addition, "inferred resources" have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence and economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category.  Under Canadian securities legislation, estimates of inferred mineral resources may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies, or economic studies, except in rare cases.  U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that part or all of an inferred resource exists, or is economically or legally mineable.

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Symbol:  OTCQB – MRGP; Frankfurt AN4, WKN NO. A0MUN4.

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SOURCE Mercer Gold Corporation