West Red Lake Gold Mines Inc. announced that it is resuming drilling at its 60%-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 north-east for an indicated 1,100 meters in addition to the 900 meters currently outlined on the property. It possibly conjugates with the previously discovered Porphyry Hill/Creek Zones to the north-east.

Together with the Newman Todd mineralized structure. West Red Lake Gold's Rowan-NT structure has not been explored below 300 meters to date and remains open at depth. The first phase of the 2013 program, totaling 3,050 meters, will focus on the Rowan Main Zone structure.

The drilling program will consist of drilling 2 pairs of holes of 450 and 600 meters each pair, north of the 2010 collar locations and north-east 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 meters 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-north-east and the Rowan Main Zone vein systems to the east for an additional 100 to 150 meters. This program follows up on the 2010 and 2011 drilling campaign, the best result being 69.3 grams over 6.0 meters. 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 north-east for an additional 750 meters.