drilling program and assay
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First Explorer at the "Ring of Fire" and presently drilling on the "BIG DADDY" Chromite/Pge's jv'd property...yet we were robbed
SPIDER, KWG AND FREEWEST START WINTER EXPLORATION PROGRAM
McFAULD’S LAKE AREA, NORTHERN ONTARIO
Toronto, Canada – February 4, 2008 – Spider Resources Inc. (TSXV-SPQ) and KWG Resources Inc. (TSXVKWG)
and Freewest Resources Canada Inc. (TSXV-FWR) are pleased to announce the startup of their 2008 winterexploration program on the Freewest option property (the “Property”), located approximately 15 kilometers southwest
of the McFaulds Lake volcanogenic massive sulphide ("VMS") occurrences of Spider and KWG and approximately
3.6 kilometers northeast of Noront Resources Ltd.’s Eagle One Magmatic Massive Sulphide (“MMS”) discovery in the
James Bay Lowlands region of Northern Ontario.
The joint venture partners (Spider and KWG) last completed field work on this property in 2006, that included a
diamond drill program resulting in the discovery of a layered chromitite bearing, nickel enriched peridotite (See press
release dated March 7, 2006). Assay results received later (see press release dated June 29, 2006) confirmed that
the layering within this peridotite was enriched in chrome, nickel, as well as Platinum Group Elements (“PGE’s”). The
2006 winter exploration program was highlighted by the discovery of two massive chromitite layers hosted within
peridotite, encountered while drilling ground geophysical anomalies targeting volcanic-hosted massive sulphide
deposits (drill hole FW-06-03). The drilling returned the following assays:
Upper Chromitite Layer Lower Chromitite Layer
22.70% chrome, 0.17 g/t platinum, 0.24 g/t
palladium over 1.05 metres1
23.70% chrome, 0.21 g/t platinum, 0.46 g/t
palladium over 0.60 metres1
1Assays performed by ALS Chemex of Vancouver, B.C, utilizing multi-acid ICP techniques for low and higher gradeson samples selected, bagged and tagged and sent by bonded courier to the lab, under the supervision of Howard
Lahti Ph.D. P.Geo. of Fredericton New Brunswick.
Subsequent re-analyses of selected samples and some additional assaying of the drill core from the 2 chromitite
layers and intervening wall rock in the peridotite was later completed by Actlabs. The analyses yielded the following
results.
Upper Chromitite Layer Lower Chromitite Layer
23.40% chrome, 0.19 g/t platinum, 0.21 g/t
palladium, 0.32 g/t ruthenium, 0.05 g/t
rhodium, 0.12% nickel over 1.03 metres2
18.60% chrome, 0.23 g/t platinum, 0.48 g/t
palladium, 0.30 g/t ruthenium, 0.05 g/t
rhodium, 0.13% nickel over 0.85 metres2
2 Assays performed by Actlabs of Ancaster, Ontario, utilizing INAA for chrome, sodium peroxide fusion and ICPanalysis for nickel and nickel sulphide fire assay technique for PGE’s on samples selected, bagged and tagged and
sent by bonded courier to the lab, under the supervision of Howard Lahti Ph.D. P.Geo of Frederiction New Brunswick
overseeing the lab to lab delivery of samples.
The additional assaying completed on the entire mineralized zone in the peridotite, including the upper and lower
chromitite layers yields 4.05% chrome and 0.17% nickel over a core length of 16.85 metres. This chrome-platinum
group element-nickel discovery was the first of its kind in the McFauld’s Lake area of the Sachigo Greenstone Belt.
The host peridotite contains variable amounts of magnetite as disseminations and seams and elicits a strong
magnetic signature. Such a magnetic high has dimensions of 400 metres by 400 metres and due to both the
dimensions, and the peridoitite setting similarity to Eagle One this becomes an attractive exploration target for
additional work directed at chrome-platinum group element-nickel mineralization.
Under the terms of an agreement with Freewest (see press release December 19, 2005), Spider and KWG must
spend an aggregate of $3.0 million on exploration over a four-year period to earn an initial joint 50% interest in the
Property. They may earn a cumulative joint 60% interest in the Property by delivering a bankable feasibility study on
any mineralization identified and subsequently a cumulative joint 65% interest, by arranging financing on behalf of
Freewest to put the Property into commercial production. An initial $200,000 needed to be expended on the property
by February 28, 2006. The early 2006 work program covered this initial earn-in allowing the option to continue where