West Mining Corp has received the analytical results and a summary report from Coast Mountain Geological Ltd for exploration work completed at the Company’s 100% owned Spanish Mountain West gold project in southern-central British Columbia. The program was successful in identifying multi-element and multi-station soil anomalies of key pathfinder elements associated with gold mineralization at the nearby Spanish Mountain deposit.

The 1062 hectare Spanish Mountain West Property lies within the Quesnel Terrain and is predominately underlain by the Nicola Group volcanic and sedimentary rock package. Mineralization in the Spanish Mountain deposit is characterized as finely disseminated gold associated with pyrite in argillites and as polymetallic-gold veins hosted in Nicola volcanic sequences.

The CMG program identified shallow, low grade, pathfinder elements such as arsenic, mercury and bismuth. However, more importantly, base metals including lead, zinc, and copper +/- arsenic and silver were identified in soils across the property, all known indicators of gold in the area. A total of 980 soil samples were collected from three separate grid areas: the Oscar North, Spanish Lake and Spanish Southwest.

The Oscar North Grid shows elevated base metals Cu-Pb-Zn and the shallow indicator element As. Most notable on this grid is a single station multi-element soil location in the center of the claim, exhibiting elevated As-Bi-Pb-Zn and is directly north of the Oscar gold showing. Also notable is the presence of elevated Pb-Zn results throughout the entirety of the grid. At the Oscar gold discovery immediately to the south, Skygold Ventures (BC ARIS #30144) outlined a 150 metre long soil anomaly with corresponding pyritic black argillite/phyllite rock samples assaying up to 2.11 ppm Au.

The Spanish Lake Grid was designed to extend an adjacent Au-in-soil anomaly located west of the grid. A weak As-Ag-Au trend was identified continuing 450 metres to the middle of the grid. A single Au-As anomalous station in the upper NE corner of this grid is in proximity to a structural inflection point defined by an adjacent gully; this station returned the highest gold value of the program.

On the Spanish Southwest Grid soil sampling clearly identified the contact between prospective Nicola basalts and the younger sedimentary rocks. Au-Ag-As values appear to trend for over 2 kilometres along this defined contact. The center of the grid displays a strong single-station multi-element soil anomaly (As-Cu-Zn-Ag), which is surrounded by weakly anomalous As-Au at neighbouring stations, all of which occur near the geological contact of interest. Follow-up work in this area is recommended, due to the strong As-Au correlation found by Bullion Gold to the east and the presence of elevated anomalies adjacent to the contact. Additionally, multiple stations of ~1g/t Ag exist in the southern portion of the grid, with weak Au anomalies and surrounding moderate Cu-Zn anomalies. Work performed by Bullion Gold Corp. (BC ARIS #32720) in 2007 immediately east of the Spanish Southwest area showed a positive gold-in-soil response (with correlative arsenic) on a similar mapped contact.

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