Encouraging Results from Northwest Zone Surface Drilling

VAL D'OR, QC, March 5, 2012 /CNW/ - Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd (WDO: TSX) is pleased to announce the results from its 2011 surface diamond drilling program on the Northwest Zone located 1.3 kilometres northwest of the Kiena mine shaft.

Surface drilling of the Northwest Zone, located about 600 metres west of current mining areas, has confirmed the internal geometry of the zone at fifty metre centres.  Additionally, a previously untested parallel zone is emerging at shallow depths, grading up to 14.34 gAu/tonne over a true width of 4.9 metres in hole S717.

Drill hole locations and results are summarized in Tables 1 and 2.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE

• 26.16 gAu/tonne over 3.3 m (core length)
• 7.70 gAu/tonne over 2.9 m (core length)
• 3.23 gAu/tonne over 4.7 m (core length)
• 2.94 gAu/tonne over 8.1 m (core length)

George Mannard, VP Exploration, comments, "This provides us with the confidence for a reasonable grade and tonnage estimate on the main lens plus some exploration potential.  These results will be incorporated into the mine planning process."

Table 1:  Drill Hole Locations

* Drill hole abandoned

Table 2:  Drill Hole Results

** An upper grade cutting limit of 34.28 gAu/tonne was applied.

Note: Results tabled in magenta italic text represent an interpreted branch of the Northwest Zone.

GEOLOGICAL CONTEXT

The Northwest Zone is a tabular zone consisting of quartz-carbonate-tourmaline-pyrite veining hosted by albite altered diorites and tholeitic basalts. The Northwest Zone strikes northwest, dipping at -65 degrees towards northeast. The Northwest Zone is situated approximately 600 metres west of the 388 zone currently being developed at the 330 metres level. The zone appears to be branching into at least two sub parallel lenses to the northeast. This is illustrated by the following intersections encountered at shallow depth well before the intended target:

• hole S717 14.34 gAu/tonne over 4.9 metres true width
• hole S720   3.04 gAu/tonne over 6.5 metres true width
• hole S729   6.26 gAu/tonne over 1.2 metres true width

TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE

The technical content of this press release has been verified by Marc Ducharme, P.Geo. OGQ, Chief Exploration Geologist, Kiena mine in his capacity as a "Qualified Person", as per requirements of National Instrument 43-101.  Assaying was done by fire assay methods at the Kiena mine assay office.  In addition to internal duplicate, standards and blanks, the geology department inserts blind standards and blanks into the sample stream at a frequency of one in twenty to monitor quality control.

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