08:25 AM EST, 12/13/2024 (MT Newswires) -- VR Resources ( VRRCF ) said on Friday that drilling is underway on the fourth hole of its Phase 1 reconnaissance drill program on the Westwood complex within the Empire project in Ontario.

The company said the first few core boxes in the fourth hole confirm that the target mafic-ultramafic rock with magmatic sulfide is present on the opposing side of the complex from the intersection in the second hole located 800 meters away.

"The goal for first pass reconnaissance drilling at the Westwood target was to prove the concept for a large and fertile mafic-ultramafic complex, and it is exciting to see in the first few boxes of this hole the same mafic rock with sulfide that we saw in Hole 002 on the other side of the multiphase intrusive complex," CEO Justin Daley said. "We are now working to expand our understanding for geophysical controls on this coarse mafic rock that we see in the highway showing, and now in Holes 2 and 4 some 800 meters apart."

VR said it expects to finish the drill campaign on time and on budget despite rapidly changing weather at the onset of winter.