Dear VMS and North American Nickel Followers:

Today's blast introduces our Chief Operating Officer Neil Richardson through a podcast interview. In the 3 minute conversation, Neil gives a personal introduction to his background and explains why he was attracted to the Company. Neil oversees virtually all aspects of our field programs and is our main representative to HudBay Minerals, on the Reed Copper mine project now under construction. Neil wears many hats for the Company and has been a key addition to the VMS team since joining us. In the podcast, Neil discusses his extensive experience in the Flin Flon - Snow Lake Greenstone Belt where the Company's main holdings and activities are located.

To listen to Neil’s podcast, please CLICK HERE.

Also, we have included a copy of an article of interest to everyone in our society, especially those who invest in mineral exploration and mining ventures. The article was published in the Vancouver Sun in April and does the best job I've seen in explaining just why everyone should be in support of responsible mining practices and be encouraging mining activity in Canada and elsewhere. A portion of the article is excerpted below.

Best regards,

John Roozendaal
President & Director
VMS Ventures Inc.

VMS owns ~27.5 % of NAN

Mining makes your life possible

Whether it's your bicycle or cellphone, life as you know it would not exist without minerals

By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun April 20, 2013

So, you're parking both the family car and the transit pass, biking to work instead and feeling a tad righteous about helping British Columbia wean itself from its dirty addiction to the mining industry and the minerals it extracts.

Say thanks to a coal miner for the privilege. And don't forget the hardrock miner. Not to mention the smelter crew and the roughneck yanking pipe on some frigid drill rig.

Oh, and say thanks to the trucker hauling canisters of molybdenum, titanium or tungsten concentrate or the geologist staking gold, silver or rare earths deposits.

Without them and the industries that employ them, you'd be walking, not biking.

Bicycles, unless you ride one you made yourself from bamboo, lashings of hemp and dried banana peels, is entirely manufactured from materials obtained by mining - steel processed by burning metallurgical coal, perhaps lightened by adding specialized metals like titanium; plastic and synthetic rubber obtained from petroleum products.

Petroleum derivatives

Helmet, petroleum derivatives; spiffy quick-dry cycling duds, petroleum derivatives; LED safety lights, metals and rare earths obtained by mining; water bottle, metals or petroleum derivatives. Even the road you're riding on is a product of mining, engineered to reduce friction so you roll more easily. The building you work in, even if it's a wood frame structure, is full of metals and plastics in the form of steel framing and connectors, wiring, lighting, office equipment, insulation, surfacing, window frames, roofing, plumbing fixtures and so on.

Even the ceramic cup from which you drink your coffee while reading this contains the mineral zircon.

And if you get around to sending me a snarky email regarding my insensitivity to the environmental benefits of biking to work by drawing attention to this - pardon the pun - irony, you'll be using mined minerals to deliver the message.

Computer keyboard, petroleum-derived plastics; circuitry, rare earths and special metals; screws, frames and fasteners, steel, aluminum and other metals; flat screen display, metals and plastics; battery, metals and plastics; case, metals and plastics.

Want a more detailed list? Your computer, tablet or smartphone contains iron, titanium, aluminum, copper, zinc, nickel, gold, silver, lithium, magnesium, mercury, yttrium, palladium, tin, cadmium, indium, lead, samarium, tantalum and, if you are still running an optical drive, gadolinium and dysprosium. The plastics are heat resistant with melting points above the boiling temperature for water and are comprised of acrylonitrile, butadiene, styrene and carbon.

The total greenhouse gas emissions associated with a MacBook: About 460 kilograms of carbon dioxide. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE