April 14, 2008
Toronto, Ontario – Vena Resources Inc. (“Vena” or the “Company”) [TSX: VEM, Lima: VEM, Frankfurt: V1R] is pleased to announce that the Company has signed a joint venture agreement with Apex Silver adding the historical Esquilache underground silver mine (1,000 hectares) to the 24,000 hectare package 100% already owned by Vena in Puno, Peru.
Vena has committed to pay US$300,000 over three years and to invest US$1.5 million in exploration activities to earn 60% of the JV project. The Company can increase its ownership of the JV project to 70% when a feasibility study is completed. Vena has an additional two years to complete this study.
Esquilache is a very large (25,000 hectares) exploration project in Puno, Peru. For the last six months Vena has been exploring Esquilache while staking additional areas. A large geophysics program was completed (130,000 metres) last year and an extensive geochem program is ongoing to define the drill program with the permit process to commence shortly thereafter.
The mineralized structures are stockworks and rosary-type veins with varying dimensions from centimeters to over five meters in width and outcropping over 1.2 km in length. The oxide part in some of these structures had been exploited since the colonial days as previously reported in the Creston zone.
Thus far Vena is pleased to report that seven new significant polymetallic drill targets have been identified in the Mamacocha zone (Carmen, Candelaria, Silvia, San Martin, Santa Elena, Mamacocha, and Veronica) where 920 geochem samples have been gathered including a systematic channel sampling program that has returned values ranging as follows:
This press release was reviewed by Rod Ogilvie P.Geo., Vena’s Vice President of Engineering and Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101.
For further information on Vena Resources, please visit the Company website at www.venaresources.com or contact:
Juan Vegarra – Chairman & CEO - (416) 364-7739, ext. 120 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Michael Joyner – Equicom Group - (416) 815-0700, ext. 275 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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