Latin American Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: LAT)(OTCQX: LATNF) (the "Company") announces positive gold results from trenching and drilling along the northern extension of the Discovery Trend of its Paso Yobai gold project in Paraguay. The Company's Independencia Mine pilot operation, located in the central Discovery Zone sector of the Discovery Trend, shipped its first gold bar last week (Press Release August 29, 2012).