West High Yield Announces Magnesium Development Plans and Early Results from 2011 Drill Program

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West High Yield (W.H.Y.) Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:WHY) ("West High Yield" or
the "Company") announces that it has drilled and completed 22 drill holes of 26
planned holes in the Company's 2011 resource definition drill program on its
Record Ridge magnesium property, located in Rossland, British Columbia. Upon
completion of the 2011 drill program, the Company will proceed with a NI 43-101
Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) Report in respect of the Company's Record
Ridge Magnesium Project. The objectives of the 2011 drill program are to provide
geotechnical data for the PEA, expand the grid over the Company's 2007 and 2008
magnesium discovery and to investigate the limits of the Company's magnesium
deposit found to date. The PEA is being prepared by SRK Consulting Engineers of
Denver, Colorado and the Company anticipates that the PEA will be completed in
early 2012. Upon completion of the PEA and provided that the Company continues
to see favourable and positive results in its drilling, testing and
metallurgical programs, the Company plans to proceed with Pre-feasibility and
Feasibility Studies on its Record Ridge Magnesium Project.


The Company previously reported the results of its 2007 and 2008 Record Ridge
drill program consisting of 51 NQ diamond drill holes totalling 6,340 meters
with 3,874 assays. The Company also reported that it obtained a NI 43-101 Report
on this property with indicated and measured resources aggregating 9,160,000
metric tonnes of magnesium based on the 2007 and 2008 drilling results. The
analytical work for the drill program is being conducted by SGS Canada Inc. and
ALS Minerals, both of Vancouver, BC. As a QA/QC grade control, selected one-half
drill core cut duplicates were tested by ALS Minerals and Acme Analytical
Laboratories Ltd. The accompanying map illustrates the 26 planned holes for the
2011 drill program in relation to the 51 holes drilled on the Record Ridge
Magnesium Project in 2007 and 2008.


The Company has now received the assay results of the initial 10 drill holes
from the 2011 drill program. The first two holes, RRS 11-01 and RRS 11-02 were
drilled to confirm an intrusive (waste rock), which was indicated in the earlier
drilling program and lying between the southern and northern deposits. The other
8 holes intersected broad zones of rich magnesium bearing ultramafic rock
(serpentenized dunite, wehrlite and lehzolite - simply named serpentinite). The
holes RRS 11-03 to RRS 11-06 were step-out holes 100 metres to the west of the
previous drilling on the northern deposit. Of particular interest is hole RRS
11-04 which yielded 152.4 metres from surface grading 24% magnesium. Holes RRS
11-7 to RRS 11-10 indicated good values extending 800 metres to the north of the
previous drilling limit. In this series, RRS 11-08 indicated 151.8 metres of
23.7% magnesium. The drilling has not tested the depth of the serpentinite and
based upon the results to date, management believes that the magnesium bearing
serpentinite remains open to depth and extends to the north and the west. The
Company is currently drilling its 23rd hole and will drill 3 more to complete
the 2011 program. All drilling should be completed by the end of October and
full assay results will be delivered by the end of November. The assay results
are set out in detail in the table below.




                                     Length                                 
                   Depth (metres)     (True               
                                      Width)  Magnesium                    
DDH #             From         To   (metres)          %      Rock Type     
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                                                        Basaltic andesite to
RRS 11-1           3.0      165.4     162.4        7.58 Diagabbro           
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                 165.4      185.6      20.2        22.3 Serpentinite        
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RRS 11-2                                                Monzosyenite and    
                   3.0      244.4     241.4         2.9 Diagabbro           
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RRS 11-3           2.1      153.2     151.1        22.2 Serpentinite        
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                 153.2      175.9      22.7         4.7 Monzosyenite        
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RRS 11-4             0      152.4     152.4        24.0 Serpentinite        
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RRS 11-5           2.1      125.4     123.3        21.6 Serpentinite        
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                                                        Sheared/faulted     
                   5.2       23.1      17.9        17.3 serpentinite        
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RRS 11-6          23.1       28.2       5.1         6.9 Diagabbro           
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                  28.2      143.9     115.7        23.1 Serpentinite        
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                   0.6       54.6      54.0        23.0 Serpentinite        
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RRS 11-7          54.6       78.7      24.1         8.1 Diagabbro           
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                  78.7      152.4      73.7        26.1 Serpentinite        
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RRS 11-8           0.6      152.4     151.8        23.7 Serpentinite        
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RRS 11-9           0.6      149.3     148.7        23.4 Serpentinite        
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                   1.5       40.9      39.4        22.5 Serpentinite        
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                  40.9       49.8       8.9         5.8 Diagabbro           
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RRS 11-10         49.8       88.0      38.2        22.0 Serpentinite        
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                  88.0       96.0       8.0         2.5 Diagabbro           
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                  96.0      152.4      56.4        23.7 Serpentinite        
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About the Company

West High Yield is a publicly traded junior mining exploration company focused
on the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral resource properties
in Canada with a primary objective to locate and develop economic gold, nickel
and magnesium properties. The Company's operations are currently being conducted
on its Rossland Gold Camp property located 2.5 kilometers west of the town of
Rossland, B.C. The Company controls approximately 6,223 contiguous hectares of
mineral and crown granted claims and is exploring for gold on its primary
properties which are the Midnight, OK and IXL crown grants and for magnesium on
the Company's Ivanhoe Ridge, Hidden Valley and Record Ridge properties.


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