Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd. announced that it has acquired an additional 10,176 hectares (101.76 sq kms) of mineral claims within and adjacent to the Company's Wingdam exploration ground located in the Cariboo Mining District in South Central British Columbia. The newly staked claims extend the property along the geological trend running northwest and southeast of Omineca's Wingdam underground Paleoplacer project. Programs for Mary Creek (northwest of Wingdam) and Skopos (south of Wingdam) target areas are currently being finalized for a spring drill campaign.

Several other exploration programs including ground-based geophysics  (Induced Polarization), Mobile Metal Ion Analysis and structural mapping are ongoing along trend to the southeast, as well as along a parallel trend located southwest of Wingdam. Program details, including drill plans, will be announced once finalized. The 10,176 hectares of newly acquired mineral tenures brings Omineca's land position to 65,218 Hectares (652.2 sq kms) of exploration land bordered to the east and southwest by Osisko Development Corp.

Omineca's land encompasses a series of northwest-southeast geological trends along and parallel to the Wingdam trend. Some highlights of the new claims include: Claims located approximately 5 km southwest of Wingdam comprise a package within the Nicola suite of volcanic and sedimentary rocks and encompasses the Spanish thrust fault which runs adjacent to the Wingdam Trend and the Eureka thrust fault. A new claim set on the northern end of the Company's land package extends the northwest trending Eureka thrust fault and the Wingdam trend and shows a high level of tectonic activity interpreted from geophysical surveys.

Based on regional geophysics, the new southern claims extend the Wingdam trend, including the Spanish thrust fault to the southeast. Land staked to the southwest has had historic sampling with elevated gold values and falls within the northwest-southeast trending Quesnella Terrane which is host to the prolific gold-copper porphyry belt that includes Mt. Polly and Mt.

Milligan mines and the Omineca/Canalaska Mouse Mountain project JV.