Foran Mining has received its initial Approval to Operate Permit for its advanced exploration decline program at its McIlvenna Bay project 65 kilometers west of Flin Flon.

The Permit allows the Company to operate pollutant control facilities for water and waste rock.  Water pumped out of the decline will be placed in a lined containment pond on site and the waste rock will be placed in the now completed lined waste rock pad.  As part of the advanced exploration decline program the company has completed the box cut, initial underground excavation, jet grouting of the sandstone layer from surface, rock pad lining, roadways, construction of the containment pond, the ore and waste pad and the establishment of mine services infrastructure for ventilation, air and water to support decline development.

Approximately 850 meters of ramp development is required to access the deposit where a single 100 meter cross cut will be developed into the hanging wall to facilitate bulk sample collection. The company expects to mine a 44 hundred tonne bulk sample that will be used to confirm metallurgical test work and further optimize processing design.