INTERNATIONAL MONTORO RESOURCES INC. - TSX: IMT

#600 - 625 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2T6
 

NEWS RELEASE

January 20, 2004

$126,800 FINANCING CLOSED

Montoro Resources Inc. (TSX Venture Exchange – “MNQ”) announces that further to its news release of November 27, 2003, the Company is pleased to announce that it has closed its non-brokered private placement in respect of 918,000 flow-through units and 350,00 non flow-through units, at a price of $0.10 per unit for total gross proceeds of $126,800. Each unit will consist of one share plus one share purchase warrant exercisable for two years at an exercise price of $0.12 per share. After three months of the warrant issue date it will take two warrants to purchase one additional common share of the Company at a price of $0.12 per share until the expiration of two years from the original issue date of the warrant.

The shares and warrants issued are subject to a hold period of four months expiring May 19, 2004.

Proceeds of the private placement will be used to finance exploration on the Company’s cobalt/copper prospect in Bathurst, New Brunswick; gold prospects in the Red Lake Mining Division and gold-silver-copper-zinc-lead polymetallic prospect in Northern British Columbia and for general working capital.

In addition, the Company announces it had granted incentive stock options to directors/officers subject to approval of the TSX Venture Exchange for the purchase of up to 700,000 common shares for a period of two years at a price of $0.12 per share.

 

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Roger Agyagos, Secretary/Director

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