On September 10, 2009, Cigma Metals Corp. dismissed Dale, Matheson, Carr-Hilton as its independent registered public accounting firm. The company engaged Peterson Sullivan LLP as its new independent registered public accounting firm as of September 10, 2009.

Augustus Minerals has received a request from Cigma Metals Corp. for an extension to settlement terms on the Dostyk project previously agreed and announced to the ASX on 29th December 2008. Under the terms of this revised agreement, Cigma was due to make a final payment of $1.015 million on March 31, 2009. Negotiations in respect of an extension of this final payment are ongoing and an announcement will be made in this regard in the near future.

Cigma Metals Corp. announced a maiden Inferred Resource for Berezki East prospect in Kazakhstan. HIGHLIGHTS Berezki East Deposit is a part of large-scale gold-copper-porphyry mineralization system. Berezki East Deposit ore resources of 18.6 million tonnes grading at 0.48 g/t for 288,886 oz of contained gold, 1.06 g/t for 636,316 oz of contained silver, 0.1% for 15,835 tonnes of contained copper, During 2008, the Company completed 12 diamond drill holes (DDH) for a total of 3,950 meters with an average drill hole depth of 330 meters. Drilling program targeted the outer zone of a large gold-copper porphyry system. The drilling confirmed over 420 meters of continuity for the mineralization zone along strike with an average width of approximately 50 meters and reaching 80 meters in places (Figure 3). It has been traced down to a depth of 350 meters and remains open both on strike and depth. The oxidation zone extends from surface down to 40 meters and could be suitable for free-milling heap-leach gold-silver-copper extraction.