WEST MINING CORP. CORE SAMPLING PROGRAM DESIGNED TO UPGRADE CURRENT RESOURCE ON ITS 100% OWNED KENA PROJECT

VANCOUVER, B.C., April 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WEST MINING CORP. (“WEST” OR THE “COMPANY”) (CSE: WEST) (OTC: WESMF) (FRA: 1HL) is pleased to announce plans to complete an extensive core resampling program on its 100% owned Kena and Daylight Properties, collectively known as the Company’s flagship “Kena” Gold and Copper Project, located in the Nelson Mining District of southeastern British Columbia.

In 2021, Moose Mountain Technical Services (“MMTS”) produced a resource estimate for the Kena and Daylight Properties outlining over 2.77 million ounces of gold in the inferred category as well as over 561,000 ounces of gold in the indicated category with a base cut-off grade within the “reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction” constraining pit of 0.25 g/t gold. https://www.sedarplus.ca/csa-party/records/document.html?id=437c3d9af6 ...   

The resource estimate includes 252 drill holes. Drill results indicate zones of “bulk-tonnage type” gold mineralization, with multiple holes containing 100 metre wide zones averaging >1 g/t gold. Several holes also intersected higher grade gold, indicating a gold-enriched zones, spatially related to faults and geological contacts. Drilling to date has also intersected 154 high grade structural shoots of 5.08 to 240.07 g/t gold over average 1.5 metre widths occurring largely within the homogenous lower grade halos. The table below summarizes the Total Mineral Resource estimate for the Kena Project.

SENSITVITY OF THE TOTAL RESOURCE ESTIMATE TO CUTOFF GRADE (effective date March 25, 2021)

Class	Tonnage	Cut-off	Au Grade	Au Metal
	(Ktonnes)	Au (g/t)	(g/t)	(Koz)
INDICATED
	32,146	0.25	0.544	561.9
	26,274	0.30	0.604	510.2
	11,863	0.50	0.869	331.4
INFERRED
	177,508	0.25	0.486	2,773.1
	135,814	0.30	0.552	2,410.1
	53,060	0.50	0.813	1,386.7

In the 2021 Technical Report MMTS recommends, that although the resource database has been verified and is deemed acceptable, a robust check assay sampling program including QAQC samples be conducted using a certified laboratory comprising 5-10% of core for years for which drill core is available to compensate for missing certificates, lack of QAQC samples in historic core and a potential bias noted in the 2012 drilling QAQC and 2001-2002 check assays.