Western Metallica Resources Corp. reported that it has finalized a first phase drill program which included four drill holes for a cumulative approximately 1,500 metres of drilling completing half of the planned two-phase, 3,000-metre drill program aimed at investigating the mineralization at depth below mine levels, as well as the northern and southern extensions. Results of first phase of drilling include 7.40 metres at 0.6% Cu in NCDDH003, 1.65 metres at 1.7% Cu and 5.95 metres at 0.7% Cu in NCDDH004, among previously reported results from the first two holes, NCDD001 and NCDD002.

Moreover, these results prove the on-strike continuity of the mineralization for ~300 metres, thus far, and intersected multiple intervals of significant copper mineralization in massive sulphides. Results of all four holes are meaningful as they equally indicate intersections of copper sulfide mineralization, over multiple intervals, predicting a broader high-grade copper mineralized trend and substantiating the vast historic data which positions Nueva Celti as a highly prolific copper project. The results of the first phase confirmed the presence of the mineralized zones previously reported by the 'Asturian de Zinc', Glencore drilling program, and predict a high-grade copper mineralized trends.

The mineralization is mainly represented by a "semi-massive", >50% assemblage of pyrite, chalcopyrite and magnetite and 2.3% disseminated chalcopyrite, defining strata bound-like bodies generally hosted by the mica-schists units. The control on the early-Cambrian mineralization is typical of the Cu-Zn-Pb occurrences on the Northern Central Belt (NCB) of the Ossa Morena geological province, with copper-sulfides mainly coinciding with layers of muscovite and biotite-schists, locally fragmental (meta-volcaniclastics) within an amphibolite unit (metavolcanics). There remains vast potential for further discovery as the first phase program only investigated the known mineralization ~100 metres below the deepest historical mine level and has also intercepted other mineralized zones closer to surface and at depth, not indicated by previous historic exploration/exploitation.