American Cordillera Mining Corporation Announces the Execution of a Letter of Agreement With Kent Exploration, Inc.

SPOKANE, WA -- (Marketwired - Nov 12, 2013) - American Cordillera Mining Corporation ("AMCOR") (OTCQB: AUAG) today announced the signing of a Letter of Agreement (the "Agreement") with Kent Exploration Inc. ("KENT") (TSX VENTURE: KEX), a Canadian mineral exploration company, whereby KENT can acquire an Option, subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange, ("TSX-V"), (the "Option") to earn an 80% interest in the historic Bayhorse Silver Mine ("Bayhorse") in east-central Oregon State.

The Bayhorse property consists of 3 patented claims and 10 lode claims totaling approximately 250 acres. The property is readily accessible, being approximately 7 miles by County road from Huntington, Oregon, on the BN rail line, with road access and power at the property boundary, approximately 500 feet from the main adit entrance.

Mining has been conducted intermittently at Bayhorse since the early 1920s and the mine last closed after the price of silver dropped to under US$6/oz in late 1984. The property has remained dormant since. The Bayhorse mine has two existing accessible adits, the upper extending about 800 feet westward into the hill and the lower extending about 500 feet into the hill. A middle level is reached only by raises from the lower level and winzes from the upper level. Three areas have been stoped in the ground between the upper and middle level.

The terms of the Agreement call for the payment of US$5,000 on execution of the Agreement (paid) and a further US$20,000 on execution of the Option Agreement. To earn the 80% interest, KENT is required to conduct a minimum of US$100,000 per year on exploration expenditures on the property on or before each of the first two anniversaries of the Agreement, US$300,000 on or before the third anniversary of the Agreement and expend US$500,000 on or before the fourth and fifth anniversaries respectively of the Agreement. In addition, KENT will issue 500,000 shares on execution of the Option Agreement, 500,000 shares on the third anniversary of the Agreement and 500,000 shares on the fifth anniversary of the Agreement. KENT will assume the obligations of the underlying lease agreement.

AMCOR's interest shall be a Carried Interest until such time as a Definitive Feasibility Study has been produced or a Decision to mine has been made. A Definitive Feasibility Study ("DFS") is defined as a detailed report prepared by, or prepared under the supervision of, an Independent Qualified Person in accordance with the Canadian National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for evaluating the feasibility of placing any part of a Property into commercial production as an operating mine and shall include a reasonable assessment of the various categories of ore reserves and resources and their amenability to metallurgical treatment, a detailed description of the work, personnel, equipment and supplies required to bring such part of the Property into commercial production and the estimated cost thereof, a description of the mining and processing methods to be employed and a financial appraisal of the proposed operations. At such time as a DFS is generated or a decision to mine has been made, of which there is no assurance, a joint venture shall automatically be formed between the AMCOR and KENT, whereby AMCOR shall hold 20% of the joint venture interest and KENT shall hold 80% of the joint venture interest, in and to the Lease. All expenditures from the date of the formation of the joint venture shall be apportioned between the parties as to their percentage of ownership interest.


Historic Information:

The Company advises that information of a historic nature is presented in this news release and historic production, estimates, drill information and grades reported have not been verified; A qualified person has not done sufficient work to verify the historical estimates nor classify the historical estimates as current mineral resources or mineral reserves and the Company is not treating the historical estimates as current mineral resources or mineral reserves. (ounces/grams conversion is one ounce/short ton = 34.2857 grams/metric ton)

As stated in the "Minerals Production Yearbook" (Jacobsen, 1959), total reported historic production from the Bayhorse Mine through 1959 was 286,000 ounces of silver from 8,300 tons of ore for an average of approximately 35.5 tr oz/ton Ag (1,217 g/t Ag) while Herdrick (1981) estimated remaining shipping ore at a 7.5 tr oz/ton Ag cutoff to be 166,208 tons, and on-site mill ore at a 3 tr oz/ton Ag cutoff to be 473,350 tons. Historic records do not identify whether any of this ore was produced between 1981 and 1984.

According to other more recent reports in 1984, 90 underground drill holes totaling approximately 15,000 feet reportedly delineated approximately 26,000 tons of silver bearing mineralization of which 5,718 tons were reported being produced at an average grade of 16.7 tr oz/ton Ag (572.5 g/t Ag) while approximately 20,000 tons at an average of 15 tr oz/ton Ag reportedly remained unmined. The historic records also indicate that of the 5,718 tons produced, approximately 23% reportedly graded between 21 - 100 tr oz/ton Ag, 71% reportedly graded between 6 tr oz/ton - 20 tr oz/ton Ag and 6% reportedly graded less than 6 tr oz/ton Ag. Ancillary copper produced reportedly averaged 1% Cu. The highest reported grade from the 1984 drilling, sampling and mining program was a round that reportedly assayed 691 tr oz/ton Ag (23,691 g/t Ag) and 15.72% Cu from a tetrahedrite-tennantite rich vein.

Both adits on the property are open, but the workings are not entirely accessible at present due to safety issues. Historic reports indicate that the mineralization, consisting mainly of tetrahedrite/tennantite, occurs in a 60-80 ft. wide in a zone along an andesite and rhyolite contact. Minor copper, arsenic, and vanadium are associated with the silver. Azurite and malachite coatings are common in oxidized parts of mineralized ground on the walls of the excavated stopes. Additional minerals include enargite, dufrenoysite and cuprodescloizite. Gold values of up to 0.30 tr oz/ton Au have also been reported in the mineralization.

Frank H. Blair, CPG, AMCOR's CEO stated that, "AMCOR is very positive about reaching an agreement with KENT. Predicated on reviewing many historical professional papers, prior drilling results and old smelter reports related to the Bayhorse silver mine, combined with the current price of precious metals, we are hopeful that the future work to be undertaken by KENT will confirm the existence of commercial mineralization in the Bayhorse silver mine." Blair further stated that, "AMCOR's arrangement with KENT is a prime example and consistent with AMCOR's original business strategy to acquire high quality mining properties or abandoned producers, undertake its own early exploration and then seek competent companies who will earn a working interest in AMCOR's properties and leases by contributing cash and participating as a joint venture partner." Blair also stated that, "AMCOR has 6 additional projects under its control and will attempt to use the same business model as accomplished with KENT."

This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy shares of common stock or any other securities of AMERICAN CORDILLERA MINING CORPORATION and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.


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