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2ND DRILL PROGRAM PLANNED AT REED LAKE DISCOVERY ZONE,
SNOW LAKE, MANITOBA
October 15, 2007
Vancouver, B.C. October 15, 2007. VMS Ventures
Inc. (TSX.V: VMS) (the "Company")
is pleased to announce that a drill has been sourced for its second core
drilling program on and around its recent Reed Lake VMS discovery. A program
consisting of up to 3,000 metres in 13 core holes is planned. The Company
anticipates drilling will begin within 10 days.
This drill program is designed primarily to determine the extensions,
orientation and geometry of the copper-rich mineralization discovered in RD
07-02 and to explore for its extension as suggested by the VTEM geophysical
anomaly that extends to the west and south on to the Company’s Mineral
Exploration License 268A (MEL 268A).
In addition, core holes will test conductors in the areas of RD 07-04 and RD
07-05, which are approximately 1,000 and 1,400 metres respectively east of RD
07-02. Drillholes from both these sites encountered alteration that is
considered distal to VMS deposits and additional drillholes are required at both
sites.
The mineralization and alteration assemblage intersected in RD 07-01, RD 07-02
and RD 07-03 is typical of other VMS deposits found in the Snow Lake area. As
previously reported, each of the three drill holes intersected chlorite altered
felsic volcanic rocks along the south side of a VTEM conductor. Holes RD 07-02
and RD 07-03 intersected a solid sulphide interval with a pyrite-sphalerite cap
that is stratigraphically overlain by layers of magnetite and chert. Drill hole
RD 07-01 appears to have been stopped short of the target VTEM conductor in
chlorite altered volcanic rocks. These VMS deposits characteristically consist
of multiple lenses of mineralization that are associated with a single
time-space horizon.
These additional holes should also assist in determining the extent of the
mineralization on the Company’s Mineral Exploration License 268A and on the
HudBay optioned Reed Lake property (HudBay Minerals: HBM-TSX). The map posted on
the Company’s website shows the location of drill holes RD 07-01, RD 07-02 and
RD 07-03 in relation to the property boundaries and to the VTEM anomalies in the
area.
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VMS Ventures Inc. is focused primarily on acquiring, exploring and developing
copper-zinc properties in the Flin Flon-Snow Lake VMS Belt. The Company also
holds the largest land package considered prospective for nickel-copper
mineralization at Lynn Lake, which is to date Canada’s third largest nickel
producing camp. The Company’s project portfolio consists of the Snow Lake VMS
project, the Lynn Lake Gabbros nickel-copper project, the Nickel Belt project,
the South Bay nickel-copper-cobalt PGE property, and the Eden Lake Carbonatite
Complex, Specialty Metals property. All VMS Ventures Inc. properties are located
in the mining friendly province of Manitoba, Canada.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
John Roozendaal,
President
For further information contact:
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Keith Patey,
Director of Communications
Telephone: (604) 986-2020
Toll Free: 1-866-816-0118 |
Steve Kubota
Coal Harbor Communications
Telephone: (604) 662-3237
Toll Free: 1-866-405-3955 |
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accuracy of this release.
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