Cardero Resource Corp. announced results for surface trenching, sampling and mapping at the Ledgend nickel-cobalt property in south eastern British Columbia. Results indicate significant potential for subsurface semi-massive sulphides with the main horizon averaging >1,000ppm nickel for 800 metres of strike length, a width of about 250 metres. Ten trenches were excavated across the Property, testing various soil anomalies including the high-priority Central Zone and East Zone. Sampling was completed over most of the total trench length of 775m, with 205 sample intervals analyzed using a portable XRF analyzer. Most of the trenches uncovered interlayered actinolite-tremolite and talc-carbonate schist with disseminated oxides after sulphides. The actinolite and talc schists are altered remnants of high Ni-Co ultramafic rocks that intruded calcareous sedimentary rocks and are interpreted as the probable host and source of the mineralization. The results obtained to date on the Ledgend property gives Cardero strong encouragement that the metavolcanic and metasedimentary units of the southern Lardeau Group have excellent potential for hosting volcanogenic massive sulphides ("VMS") with potentially economic nickel-cobalt and/or copper-zinc content. The exposures of massive and semi-massive sulphides, their host rock types and associated mineralization, and their apparent subsurface extents, as indicated by the aeromagnetic survey, all warrant further exploration for a Besshi-style VMS deposit fitting the proposed model. Exploration will expand to cover the remainder of the Ledgend property. The western property limits have a strong magnetic response with anomalous nickel from silt sampling, and reconnaissance mapping indicates more potential host rocks there. The northern third of the property remains to be evaluated, and a historical aeromagnetic survey indicates there is good potential on-strike with the mineralized units. Trenches were excavated sub-parallel to previous soil sampling lines. Channel samples, approximately one-metre in length, were collected using a portable angle grinder to cut a narrow slot in the rock. A dust collector was attached to catch the cuttings, which were then transferred to plastic Ziploc© bags with sample tags inserted, and these were then analyzed with a portable Niton XRF analyzer. QA/QC procedures are described below. With the exception of the re-sampled Creek Outcrop and certain narrow intervals, all trench and outcrop exposures were oxidized due to deep weathering and mostly only iron and some chrome oxides indicated mineralization. Four hand trenches from 0.5 to 3 metres in depth and spaced roughly 100 metres apart were completed over the central nickel-cobalt ("Ni-Co") ("Central Zone") soil anomaly, which is 800 metres in length, with peak values up to 8,400 ppm Ni and 250 ppm Co. Trench TR1000N-1300 tested the peak soil anomaly and returned Ni values up to 3.9m of 1,643 ppm. Highly siliceous schist, with abundant fuchsite, crops out east of the end of the TR1000N runs up to 3,750 ppm Ni over one metre (and up to 3,836 ppm Cr and 920 ppm Zn). This is interpreted as an exhalative horizon overlying the talc and actinolite schists that host the sulphides.