Foran Mining Corporation has announced they plan to start metallurgical studies on the Bigstone deposit 25 kilomters southwest of their McIlvenna Bay deposit which is 65 kilometers west of FlinFlon.

Their President Patrick Soares says the exceptional results from their winter drill program demonstrate that the Bigstone deposit merits further work.  As such they plan to advance this deposit using a step by step approach starting with metallurgical test work.  He adds pending positive results the next step would be to conduct an independent resource estimate.

An independent consultant has recently completed the compilation and validation of historic drill data for Bigstone.  With this database Foran plans to conduct a summer program which will include logging and sampling of historic drill core, combined with further geological interpretation to form the basis for the resource estimate.