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 on-going 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:

- Gold 0.3 g/t - 5.9 g/t                  Copper 0.14% - 3.0%- Lead 1.2% - 5.2%                        Zinc  1.5% - 6.5%- Silver 0.5 oz/t - 23.0 oz/t

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.

To view "Vena Resources: Esquilache Pichancani Andamarca" map, please visit the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/vem1b.pdf

To view" Esquilache-Pichacani Project Cross Section Vein System" map, please visit the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/vem1a.pdf

To view "Sampling Cu San Antonia De Esquilache" map, please visit the following link http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/vem2.pdf

To view "Esquilache-Pichacani Project Geophysical Anomalies" map, please visit the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/vem3.pdf

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