11:09 AM EST, 01/16/2025 (MT Newswires) -- VR Resources ( VRRCF ) on Thursday said its Empire project in northwestern Ontario, and group of properties has been expanded to district-scale as it identified possible platinum-group element (PGE) mineralization in the area..

The company said the Mack property was staked to cover a large, kilometer-scale magnetic high associated with anomalous palladium and copper in lake sediment samples from the Ontario Geological Survey, an association that is similar to the five targets and properties already staked and bought by the company in 2024.

"As we prepare for drilling planned to start up next week at our Silverback project, we are also expanding our Empire project group of properties to district-scale, to amplify our search for new Cu-Ni-PGE-Au targets in mafic-ultramafic intrusions based on our discovery at Westwood," said VR Resources ( VRRCF ) Chief Executive Justin Daley.

Shares of the company were last seen up $0.005 at $0.05 on the TSX Venture Exchange.

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