Avante Mining Corp. announced that it has mobilized a diamond drill to the Voisey's West nickel project to begin drilling, targeting zones of 1% plus Nickel. Voisey's West is located in the same intrusive complex as the near-by Voisey's Bay mine, and 70km west of the town of Nain, Labrador, Canada.

Highlights. First drilling since 2008 drilling cut 14 metres @ 1.02% Nickel, 0.51% Copper and 0.03% Cobalt. Multiple new targets to be tested from 3D modeling.

Preliminary targets have been identified from new geophysical modeling and are planned to test VTEM conductors that have not been tested or exist beneath the historic drilling with 8 planned dill holes, total metres to be determined. Initial drilling will focus on the areas with correlating VTEM conductors, magnetic and gravity anomalies located at the south of the All-About-It zone and to the north of the No Baccy zone. These areas have not been properly tested and could represent locations where the flow of magma may have slowed during emplacement allowing gravitational settling of nickel and sulphides.

The Company looks forward to providing updates on the progress and results of the exploration program and drilling at the Voisey's West project in the coming months. The Voisey's West project is located 50km from, and within the same intrusive complex and geological setting as the world class Voisey's Bay nickel mine. The Property is in the Churchill Province of Labrador and underlain predominately by quartz-feldspathic and metasedimentary gneisses derived from plutonic and sedimentary rocks.

The rocks are intruded by the multi-phase, Nain Plutonic Suite (NPS) composed primarily of anorthosite, troctolite, diorite and granitoids and are known to host nickel-sulphide mineralization. Following the discovery of Voisey's Bay deposit, enhanced regional prospecting led to the discovery of three pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite-pyrite-pentlandite showings located on theVoisey's West project, namely, the Long Pond, All-About-It and No Baccy. Initial surface grab samples from the Long Pond and All-About-It showings returned up to 1.36% Nickel and 0.58% Copper, and 1.05% Copper and 1.53% Copper respectively.

Continued work led to the identification of a primary mineralized corridor occurring over approximately 2.5 kilometres and multiple high-grade nickel drill intersections up to 14 metres of 1.02% Nickel,0.51% Copper and 0.,03% Cobalt.