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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
$300,000 Non-Brokered Private Placement Completed
March 9, 2007, Vancouver, BC – El Niño Ventures Inc. (“El Niño”) (TSX.V: ELN; OTCBB: ELNOF; Frankfurt: E7Q) ) is pleased to announce that further to its news release of January 29, 2007 the Company has closed its non-brokered private placement and has issued750,000 units at a purchase price of $0.40 per unit for gross proceeds of $300,000.
Each unit consisted of one common share and one-half of one non-transferable share purchase warrant. Each whole warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $0.55 for a period of 12 months from closing.
In connection with this closing, the Company has paid $22,720 as a finder fee.
In compliance with Canadian securities laws, all of the securities issued in connection with this closing are subject to a hold period expiring on July 8, 2007.
About El Niño
El Niño is an exploration stage company in the midst of a 23,500 meter drill program on the Bathurst Zinc/Base Metals Mining Camp. This is the first part of a 50,000 meter drill program that began in Oct 2006 and will continue on until March 2008. This financing will solidify El Niño’s commitment of $5 million, as stipulated in the Option/Joint Venture Agreement signed with Xstrata Zinc Canada in May 2006. Additional proceeds of this financing will be applied to the further acquisition of projects outside of Canada, and position El Niño as an aggressive international mineral exploration company.
On Behalf of the Board Of Directors,
Jean-Luc Roy President and COO
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