Defense Metals Corp. announced that the Wicheeda Project's bulk sample has arrived at SGS Labs in Peterborough, Ontario and has been offloaded and is to be prepped this week prior to initiation of the laboratory work. SGS Canada Inc. (SGS) is to immediately begin Phase 1a of the planned work program which includes chemical and mineralogical characterization, grindability, and laboratory flotation testing on a 200 kg subsample. The objectives of this program are to validate the process and confirm that conditions of the previously established 2010/2011 bench scale drill core flotation test work can be upscaled and applied to the current bulk sample; in addition to further optimization of the process flowsheet. The ultimate goal of the Phase 1a test work is to finalize the process flowsheet prior to commissioning of larger scale pilot plant testing. SGS estimate that completion of the Phase 1a work will take 2.5 months and they will provide regular updates that the Company will provide to the market through each stage of this process.