Venturex Resources Limited announced that it has received the final assays for the Salt Creek diamond drilling program completed in late 2016. Salt Creek is part of Venturex's 100% owned Whim Creek Zinc-Copper Project. Salt Creek currently has a Resource of 1Mt at 7.0% Zn, 2.0% Cu, 2.1% Pb and 52g/t Ag. The Salt Creek program (completed in late 2016) was an aggressive step out program designed to test for down plunge extensions of known mineralisation. The holes were targeted on the basis of a revised structural model of the deposit and downhole geophysical anomalies derived from the processing of historical geophysical data. The assays confirm that the program has successfully extended high grade mineralisation down-plunge at Salt Creek; with the intersections demonstrating the potential of the Salt Creek system at depth. The results released demonstrate that a combination of a sound structural model with geophysical anomalies identified by downhole geophysical surveys is highly effective in identifying drilling targets at Salt Creek. This is important because it shows that the same approach can be used to identify further drilling targets. Hole 16VSCD008 was designed to test the down plunge extension of the central copper rich lode at Salt Creek. The hole intersected 18.7m @ 2.42% Copper in silica sericite chlorite altered lapilli tuff from 457.75m downhole. The high degree of alteration seen within this hole increases the company's confidence that the prospectivity of this lode continues to improve with depth. Hole 16VSCD009 was designed to test the down plunge extension of the zinc rich western lode at Salt Creek. The hole intersected 9.85m @ 0.34% Copper, 8.76% Zinc, 1.44% Lead from 265.15m downhole and 1.72m grading 12.27% Zinc and 5.97% Lead from 279.14m down hole within a sequence of chlorite and carbonate altered sandstones and siltstone. A further 1m @ 1.7% Zinc and 2.12% Lead from 287.0m downhole is interpreted as remobilised sulphides within altered sandstones. Hole 16VSCD007 was designed to test the down plunge extension of the eastern zinc rich lode at Salt Creek, in a position approximately 110m down plunge from the previous hole WSD130. Hole 16VSCD007 is interpreted to have intersected the mineralisation below the plunge of the main lode and intersected 10.58m @ 1.49% Copper in a stockwork copper zone from 434.0m and 6.93 m @ 1.18% Copper, 4.7% Zinc and 0.32g/t Gold in a massive sulphide zone from 448.4m downhole. Follow up downhole geophysical testing is planned for Salt Creek later this quarter. In addition, the company's geologists are re-logging a number of historical diamond holes in order to improve the geological model for the deposit. This work includes additional sampling of mineralisation not identified when the holes were initially logged. It is anticipated that the combination of this work will define a new round of drill targets at Salt Creek.