NEW YORK, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ESM Refiners, Inc., a subsidiary of Casey Corp.

Latin American Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: LAT) announces that it has retained Hedenquist Consulting, Inc. and Smee & Associates Consulting Ltd. to provide advise in the Paso Yobai Gold Project in Paraguay. Dr. Jeffrey W.

Latin American Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: LAT) is encouraged by assay results from 43 samples of 17 tailings ponds on its Paso Yobai gold property in Paraguay. The tailing ponds are dry, coarse grained rejects from gravity plants and average 55m in diameter.

Latin American Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: LAT) has excavated the first of ten large pits on the Paso Yobai Discovery Zone for detailed channel and bulk sampling, exposing coarse visible gold in a new zone not previously recognized in diamond drilling.

Latin American Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: LAT) announces that the recently completed Phase I drilling program on its Paso Yobai Gold Project in Paraguay has almost tripled the strike length of the Discovery Zone from 700 metres to 2,000 metres.