Western Mines Group Ltd. announced completion of the first phase of fieldwork at the Company's 100% owned Melita Project. The Melita Project comprises exploration licence E40/379, located 20km south-southeast of Leonora and close to the Kookynie gold mining centre, in the heart of the WA Goldfields. The project area is considered highly prospective for both gold (Au) and copper-lead-zinc (Cu-Pb-Zn) mineralisation. WMG has recently undertaken the first phase of a major field exploration program with soil sampling and ground magnetic surveys completed over the historical Princess Melita high-grade gold workings and Airstrip Cu-Pb-Zn Gossan areas. A total of 938 soil samples and 121 line kms of ground magnetics were collected over the two areas, covering approximately 5.5km2. Soil samples were submitted to the lab in batches for multi-element gold and pathfinder geochemical analysis, with first results expected in 1 to 2 weeks. The high-resolution ground magnetic surveys were completed at 50m line spacing and will be used to help identify and map geology and structures associated with the target areas. Results of this work will define initial aircore (AC) drilling targets. Whilst in the field, WMG visited Kylie's Patch, an area of reported gold nugget finds recently discovered by local prospectors. This new area looks very prospective and will be the focus of a second field program in early October. An area of approximately 2.1km width and 2.3km strike around the historical Princess Melita gold workings was explored during this first field program. This area covered two parallel north-south striking trends of historical workings, and recent gold prospecting nugget patches and scrapings, associated with three satellite based alteration targets. A total of 714 sieved soil samples were collected at a general 200m x 50m spacing, with a number of areas of interest infilled in greater detail down to 100m x 50m spacing. All these samples were submitted to ALS in Perth several weeks ago for multi-element gold and pathfinder element geochemical analysis. Results are anticipated in 1 to 2 weeks. A high-resolution ground magnetic survey was completed over the same exploration area, with just over 105 line kms of data collected at 50m line spacing along east-west line across the north-south trend of geology. This data will be processed with the help of Southern Geoscience Consultants and used as a mapping tool to help identify geology and structures associated with the target area. The aim of this work is to produce a litho-structural interpretation of the area, with associated gold and pathfinder geochemistry. Targets identified from this will be prioritised and used to plan a first pass AC drilling program. An area of approximately 0.6km width and 1.3km strike around the Airstrip Cu-Pb-Zn Gossan, first identified in the 1970's and confirmed by recent WMG rock chip sampling, was explored during this exploration program. A total of 224 sieved soil samples were collected at a general 100m x 50m spacing, with the known gossanous area infilled in greater detail down to 50m x 25m spacing. These samples were submitted to ALS in Perth this week for multi-element geochemical analysis and results are anticipated in 4 to 5 weeks. A high-resolution ground magnetic survey was completed over the same exploration area, with just over 16 line km of data collected at 50m line spacing along east-west line across the north-south trend of geology, and this will be processed with the help of Southern Geoscience Consultants. The aim of this work is to define the extent of the known gossan and area of anomalous Cu-Pb-Zn mineralisation in order to help plan further work in the form of ground based geophysical surveys such as Fixed Loop EM and/or an initial drilling program. During the field campaign WMG's exploration team met with local prospectors who showed them to the location of a recent new gold discovery, referred to as Kylie's Patch, located within WMG's tenement E40/379. A reported 10 to 12 ounces of gold nuggets and gold specimens within quartz veins was claimed to have been recovered from the area. Whilst these claims cannot be independently verified by WMG the location and geology certainly looked prospective and this area will be the included as part of second field campaign being planned for early October. A second field campaign is currently being planned to commence in early October. This exploration program will likely include further soil sampling and ground magnetic survey work over the recently discovered Kylie's Patch area as well as also focusing on the Ulster historical gold workings in the southern part of WMG's Melita tenement area.