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VMS VENTURES PROPOSES TO SPIN OFF NICKEL ASSETS
12 June 2008
Vancouver, BC – June 12, 2008. VMS Ventures Inc.
(TSX-Venture: VMS) (“VMS” or the “Company”) In order to maximize shareholder
value, the board of directors have decided to pursue a spin off of the Company’s
nickel assets. As proposed, the relevant properties would be transferred to a
new company which would carry out an IPO and seek to list separately on the TSX
Venture Exchange, with VMS as the largest shareholder of the new company.
The spin off is being proposed as it is felt that the Company’s nickel assets
are currently undervalued within the present structure and that having those
assets in a separate well capitalized, well managed vehicle is a better way in
which to develop the properties and realize a proper valuation of the assets for
the benefit of VMS and its shareholders.
The Company is currently in discussions with various brokerage firms to act as
the Company’s agent in conducting the IPO and will provide further disclosure
once the terms of the spin off are settled upon.
About VMS Ventures Inc.
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
Rick Mark
CEO and Chair
For further information contact:
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Keith Patey,
Director of Communications
Telephone: (604) 986-2020
Toll Free: 1-866-816-0118 |
Dale Paruk
Coal Harbor Communications
Telephone: (604) 662-4505
Toll Free: 1-877-345-3399 |
The TSX Venture exchange does not accept responsibility for the
adequacy or
accuracy of this release.
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