Vena Announces Positive High-Grade Results from Ongoing Drill Program at Esquilache Polymetallic Property

TORONTO, Dec. 18, 2014 /CNW/ - Vena Resources Inc. ("Vena" or the "Company") (TSX: VEM, Peru: VEM, Germany: V1RA, USA: VNARF) is pleased to announce the initial results of drilling at the 100% owned, silver-rich polymetallic Esquilache project located in Puno Department approximately 850 kilometres southeast of Lima, Peru.  To date, Vena has completed nine drill holes totaling 310 metres of the current drilling campaign which is expected to total 18 drill holes and up to 1,000 metres.  Current drilling has mainly focused on testing the Sepulveda Vein where six holes have been drilled and assay results have been received for the first four holes. The holes were targeted on the results from a channel sampling program spaced along the vein that was completed in 2012.  The Sepulveda holes were spaced at 25 metre intervals to test below the structure discovered in a previous channel sampling / trenches program.  Following is a summary of key intersects achieved so far in the first four Sepulveda Vein holes:

The Sepulveda Vein crosses the ridge to the north of Cerro Creston. Silver mineralization occurs in a quartz breccia in a matrix of silica-barite. The structure strikes approximately N 50° E and dips 55° SE with widths up to 15 metres and is exposed over a strike length of 450 metres. Mineralization is predominantly silver with significant lead in sulfides with channel sample values ranging up to 17 ounces per ton silver.  The initial phase consisted of drilling six short holes (inclined at – 30° and - 60° NW) from three platforms sited immediately southeast of the structure.  The average width of the vein in the first four drill holes is 7.35 metres. There often are ancillary veinlets in the hanging wall and/or footwall of the principal structure that carry significant values in silver and lead.

The Esquilache property covers the mineralized core of a five kilometre diameter volcanic caldera that has been mined for silver/lead since the early Colonial period. The exposed structures on the property are characterized as part of a system of polymetallic, low to intermediate sulfidation, epithermal to mesothermal veins containing silver-lead-zinc-copper and significant values of gold. This first phase of the drill program will consist of a minimum of 1,000 metres of drilling designed to confirm the surface sampling results from the Sepulveda and Creston veins as well as the high grade drill intersection from the Mamacocha vein. The results will be the initial stage in calculating near surface mineral resources on the property, leading to an updated National Instrument 43-101 technical report in the first quarter 2015.  The Company has the objective of fast tracking a mining plan to exploit high grade reserves that can be mined by a combination of open pit and the extension of existing underground infrastructure.

This press release has been reviewed and approved by David Bent, P. Geo., Vena's Technical Advisor and Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101. Vena's exploration and development programs are being supervised by Mr. Bent.  All core samples are being prepared and analyzed by Certimen S.A., an ISO certified laboratory in Lima, Peru. The program is designed to include a comprehensive analytical quality control routine comprising the systematic use of standards, blanks and field duplicate samples. A secondary laboratory will be used for check assaying.

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SOURCE Vena Resources Inc.

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For further information: For further information on Vena Resources, please visit the Company website at www.venaresources.com, or contact: Juan Vegarra, Chairman and CEO at 416 364 7739, ext. 120 or jvegarra@venaresources.com or Martin Walter, President at 416 599 7363 or mwalter@venaresources.com.