Mr. Robert Seitz reports

WEST RED LAKE GOLD RESUMES DRILLING AT ROWAN LAKE MINE

West Red Lake Gold Mines Inc. is resuming drilling at its 60-per-cent-owned Rowan Lake mine property, held in a joint venture with Red Lake Gold Mines, an affiliate of Goldcorp Inc.

The 2013 winter/spring drilling program will consist of two phases and focus on further extending the Rowan-NT zone high-grade mineralized structural corridor and the Rowan Main zone structure along strike. The Rowan-NT structural corridor remains open to the northeast for an indicated 1,100 metres in addition to the 900 metres currently outlined on the property. It possibly conjugates with the previously discovered porphyry Hill/Creek zones to the northeast. Together with the Newman Todd mineralized structure (located on the Confederation Minerals/Redstar gold property to the southwest), the total strike length of the zone is outlined over a distance of greater than 2.5 kilometres, with the true width varying from 25 metres to 110 metres. In addition, recent drilling by Confederation Minerals indicates the Newman Todd structure hosts gold mineralization at over 800 metres below surface and remains open at depth (see Confederation Minerals news release of Jan. 18, 2013). West Red Lake Gold's Rowan-NT structure has not been explored below 300 metres to date and remains open at depth.

The first phase of the 2013 program, totalling 3,050 metres, will focus on the Rowan Main zone structure. The drilling program will consist of drilling two pairs of holes of 450 metres and 600 metres each, north of the 2010 collar locations and northeast from the 2011 collar locations. Drilling will target both the high-grade, gold-bearing Rowan Main zone breccias and the five Rowan Main zone vein systems to the south. Additionally, four holes of 250 metres each are planned to the east and north from 2011 collar locations. These holes will target possible strike extensions of both the breccias to the east-northeast and the Rowan Main zone vein systems to the east for an additional 100 metres to 150 metres. This program follows up on the 2010 and 2011 drilling campaign, the best result being 69.3 grams over six metres.

The second phase of 2013 drilling will focus on the Rowan-NT zone breccias. This phase of drilling is designed to further delineate the Rowan-NT zone to the northeast for an additional 750 metres. Further details of the program will be released upon completion of the first phase.

Previous drilling at the Rowan Lake mine property

In 2011, the company conducted a 3,880-metre drill program at the Rowan-NT zone and a 1,694-metre drill program on the Rowan Main zones.

The Rowan-NT zone represents a 2010 discovery on the Rowan Lake mine property on trend with the Confederation/Redstar Newman-Todd structure. The structure continues to produce impressive results with the 2012 drilling program, including bonanza-grade gold mineralization (see Redstar news release of July 31, 2012).

During the 2011 drilling program, this subvertical mineralized corridor was delineated on the Rowan Lake mine joint venture property and extended along strike by an additional 900 metres. Highlights from the 2011 program include intercepts of one metre of 28.7 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, 13.7 g/t gold, 12.8 g/t gold, 12.3 g/t gold, 10.2 g/t gold and 10.1 g/t gold in several holes. Composited values include 7.67 g/t gold over two metres, 5.96 g/t gold over two metres, 4.36 g/t gold over three metres and 2.17 g/t gold over 11 metres.

At the Rowan Main zone, the drilling focused on further delineation of a series of several subparallel, high-grade gold zones to the east-northeast of the Rowan Lake mine shaft.

Highlights of the Main zone drilling include three high-grade, one-metre-wide intercepts of 362 g/t gold, 34.5 g/t gold and 16.9 g/t gold. Also intercepted were a three-metre-wide zone with a one-metre-wide intercept of 73.6 g/t gold and a three-metre-wide zone with a one-metre-wide intercept of 7.76 g/t gold.

The main geological result obtained by the Main zone drilling was the discovery of a second breccia corridor that trends east-west and was intersected by all four of the 2011 holes drilled in this area. The structure shares striking lithological and structural similarities with the Rowan-NT zone breccias. This crosscutting zone of quartz-carbonate breccias, often with strong sulphide (mainly pyrite and pyrrhotite) mineralization, is hosted by felsic/mafic/ultramafic volcanics and quartz porphyry. The breccia corridor is quite wide at 90 metres to 250 metres along the hole trace and may occur split into several breccia subzones, separated by considerably less deformed units of 10 metres to 30 metres wide.

Vadim Galkine, vice-president of exploration, commented: "Our exploration concept suggests that the Newman Todd/Rowan-NT zone breccia corridor curves to the northwest and continues as the Rowan Main zone breccias. Alternatively, these two zones possibly cross each other and stretch further to the northwest and southwest as independent mineralized corridors. Both scenarios hold huge potential in terms of the length and width of the subvertical mineralized breccias, with only shallow depths tested to date."

Mr. Galkine, PhD, PGeo, who is a qualified person under the definition of National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed the technical information contained in this press release.

Drilling operations at the Rowan Lake mine property will be carried out by Chibougamau Diamond Drilling Ltd. of Chibougamau, Que. Drilling equipment has been mobilized to West Red Lake Gold's exploration camp at the Mount Jamie mine property.

Core samples from the Rowan Lake mine property program will be cut in half using a diamond cutting saw and will be sent to ActLabs, an accredited mineral analysis laboratory in Red Lake, Ont., for preparation and analyses utilizing both fire assay and screen metallic methods. Certified gold reference standards, blanks and field duplicates will be routinely inserted into the sample stream as part of the company's quality-control/quality-assurance program.

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