VMS Vortex Metals Inc

VMS Ventures Inc. (TSX VENTURE: VMS) (the "Company") announced today that it has agreed to launch a new nickel exploration Company that will include VMS' Manitoba, Canada nickel properties and newly optioned nickel properties in Sudbury, Ontario, one of the world's most prolific nickel production areas. VMS will own approximately 45% of the new Company, to be named North American Nickel, upon completion of events detailed in today's release.

North American Nickel Inc.

VMS Ventures has agreed to become the largest shareholder of Widescope Resources, to be renamed North American Nickel Inc.

At its April 8, 2010 Annual and Special meeting, Widescope's shareholders will convene to approve a 2-old for 1-new common share consolidation, a corporate name change to North American Nickel Inc. and, the election of 4 new directors and 2 continuing directors, in addition to the routine items normally conducted at such meetings.

It is proposed that Richard Mark, Mark Fedikow, John Roozendaal and James Clucas be added to the Board of Directors and that Edward D. Ford and Douglas E. Ford be re-elected.

Following the shareholders' meeting, it is expected that the directors will appoint Rick Mark, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman; Mark Fedikow, President and Chief Operating Officer; and Edward Ford, Chief Financial Officer. Widescope Resources is a Canadian company trading on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol WSCRF.

The first focus of North American Nickel will be its two key Sudbury properties. The Post Creek property is strategically located adjacent to the producing Podolsky copper-nickel-platinum group metal deposit of FNX Mining. The property lies along the extension of the Whistle Offset Dyke structure, which is a major geological control for Ni-Cu-PGM mineralization. The Bell Lake property is a 256 acre property that covers approximately 1 km of the Mystery Offset Dyke or "MOD". The MOD is interpreted to be an extension of the Worthington Offset Dyke which is a 10-11 km long mineralized structure that extends from the southwest margin of the Sudbury Igneous Complex.

Rick Mark, VMS Ventures Inc. CEO states;

"VMS has been looking for a way to maximize the value of its nickel assets for almost two years. The Company has been focused exclusively on its Reed Lake copper discovery and its extensive VMS exploration property portfolio in Manitoba for the last 30 months, so the nickel properties have been sitting dormant. Mark Fedikow's previous exploration experiences in Sudbury have led VMS to certain property opportunities which have been the subject of negotiation for the past eight months. The VMS board has been hesitant to raise equity on the VMS capital structure at current price levels and has decided that a significant ownership in this nickel-focused company, with Sudbury assets added to the property portfolio, provides VMS shareholders a bigger, faster upside in this time of strengthening nickel prices. We anticipate both companies to quickly have concurrent exploration and drilling activities in two of the world's most prolific mineralized regions, the Flin Flon-Snow Lake VMS belt in Manitoba and the Sudbury Basin in Ontario, thereby creating more opportunities for discovery, sooner, for VMS shareholders. Mark Fedikow will dedicate 75% of his time to his position as President and COO of North American Nickel and 25% of his time as VP Exploration for VMS Ventures. John Roozendaal will sit on the North American Nickel board and continue his full time focus as President of VMS Ventures. North American Nickel's new geological team will be operating out of Sudbury."

The VMS Manitoba Nickel Properties

North American Nickel will acquire, from VMS Ventures, 100% ownership of the Ni-Cu-PGE South Bay property near Thompson, Manitoba and the large grassroots Thompson North and Cedar Lake properties, which are part of the world-class Thompson Nickel Belt. VMS will retain a 2% NSR on these properties.

South Bay: Exploration was spurred at the South Bay property by the September, 2003 discovery of a zone of high-grade nickel mineralization. The nickel-copper-cobalt platinum group element ("PGE") zone was found in one wall of a new road cut 60 km east of the town of Leaf Rapids, Manitoba. The average grade of eleven samples of near-solid sulphide collected from boulder-sized blast rubble in the road cut exposure is 2.42 % Ni, 0.78 % Cu, 697 ppm Co and 1.32 g/t PGE. The mineralization is sedimentary-rock-hosted and exhibits similar metal characteristics to ores associated with magma-derived nickel deposits that are mined at Thompson and worldwide. Airborne geophysical surveys (VTEM) have been flown over the property and preliminary soil geochemical surveys have been undertaken.

Thompson North: The property overlies the world class Thompson Nickel Belt ("TNB") where Vale Inco continues to mine nickel-copper-cobalt and platinum group element mineralization hosted within sedimentary and mafic intrusive rocks. Based on research by the Manitoba Geological Survey the northeastern extension of the TNB has been traced through the Thompson North property making the area highly attractive for repetitions of TNB mineralization. Airborne geophysics (VTEM) has been flown over the property and numerous anomalous magnetic and electromagnetic features identified. Follow-up exploration will be based upon ranking and modeling of geophysics and soil geochemical surveys.

Cedar Lake: The property occupies the southern portion of the Thompson Nickel Belt where previous exploration based on the drill-testing of geophysical anomalies has identified key stratigraphic components that host producing nickel-copper-cobalt and platinum group elements at the Thompson and Pipe Mines of Vale Inco. Nickel mineralization has been intersected in drilling on adjacent Mineral Exploration Licenses. The prospective rock units are overlain by younger carbonate rocks and conceal the TNB in this area. The Company has undertaken airborne geophysical surveys (VTEM) and delineated numerous conductive and magnetic anomalies. These anomalies will be prioritized and drill tested subsequent to soil geochemical surveys.

Sudbury Nickel Properties:

Post Creek: The property is located 35 km east of Sudbury in Norman and Parkin townships and consists of 35 contiguous unpatented mining claims and one isolated claim covering an area of 688 hectares. It is strategically located adjacent to the producing Podolsky copper-nickel-platinum group metal deposit of FNX Mining. The property lies along the extension of the Whistle Offset Dyke Structure which is a major geological control for Ni-Cu-PGM mineralization. This structure hosted the former INCO Whistle Offset copper-nickel-PGM Mine (5.7 million tons grading 0.33% Cu, 0.95% Ni and 3.77 g/t total platinum metals) as well as the Podolsky North and Podolsky 2000 copper-precious metal deposits. FNX forecast the production of 372,049 tons of ore at Podolsky yielding 1.8 million pounds of payable nickel, 28.5 million pounds of payable copper and 27,300 ounces of payable platinum, palladium and gold for 2009.

Previous operators located the extension of the Whistle Offset Dyke structure on the Post Creek property as a direct result of their geological, geophysical and Mobile Metal Ion geochemical surveys. Drilling on this structure intersected a 0.66 m near solid to solid sulphide zone with 0.48% copper, 0.08% nickel, 53 parts per billion (ppb) palladium, 34 ppb platinum and 20 ppb gold. A rock sample collected along the structure assayed 0.83% Ni, 0.74% Cu, 0.07% Co, 2241 ppb Pt and 1051 ppb Pd. Significant potential for nickel-copper-PGM is demonstrated on the Post Creek property.

A NI 43-101 compliant Technical Report has been commissioned, with Dr. Walter Peredery, formerly of INCO, as the author.

Bell Lake: The Bell Lake property is a 256 acre property that covers approximately 1 km of the Mystery Offset Dyke or "MOD". The MOD is interpreted to be an extension of the Worthington Offset Dyke which is a 10-11 km long mineralized structure that extends from the southwest margin of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. Offset Dyke environments are significant hosts to nickel-copper-PGM mineralization in the Sudbury Basin. The Worthington Offset Dyke hosts the past producing Worthington Mine and the Victoria Mine (1.5 million tons of 2.2% copper, 1.5% nickel and 2.3 g/t total precious metals). It is also host to Vale Inco's Totten Mine development (10.1 million tons at 1.5% nickel, 2% copper and 4.8 g/t platinum group metals). Crowflight Minerals AER-Kidd property also occurs within the Worthington Offset. The Bell Lake property is marked by surface exposures of disseminated to near-solid nickel-copper sulphide mineralization with PGM values. The Mystery Offset Dyke offers excellent exploration potential for the discovery of additional nickel-copper-PGM mineralization. Deep-looking ground geophysical technologies and diamond drilling will test the property after detailed geological mapping has been undertaken on the property.

Halcyon: The property is located 35 km NNE of Sudbury in the SE corner of Parkin Twp, and consists of 46 unpatented mining claims. It is readily accessible by paved and all-weather gravel road. Halcyon is adjacent to the Post Creek property and contains the extension of the metallogenetically significant Whistle Offset Structure. It is approximately 2 km north of the producing Podolsky Mine of FNX Mining. Previous operators on the property defined numerous conductive zones based on induced polarization (I.P.) surveys with coincident anomalous soil geochemistry. Base and precious metal mineralization have been found in multiple locations on the property but follow-up work was never done. The former producing Jon Smith Mine (nickel-copper-cobalt-platinum) is situated 1 Km North of the property.

Woods Creek: The Woods Creek claim block is located in Hyman Township about 50 km west of Sudbury and comprises eight contiguous unpatented mining claims covering 1,264 hectares. The target on the property is disseminated to near-solid nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM mineralization hosted within Nipissing Diabase dykes which cover 50% of the property. This style of mineralization is currently being mined by Ursa Major Minerals at their Shakespeare deposit 15 km southwest of the Woods Creek property. It contains 7,301,000 tons grading 0.37% Ni, 0.39% Cu, 0.024% Co, 0.37 g/t Pt, 0.40 g/t Pd and 0.20 g/t Au.

Previous operators defined a number of mineralized zones on the Woods Creek property, but little follow-up exploration was undertaken. The Main Zone prospect is a zone of 10-40% pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite mineralization that assayed 1.22% Cu, 0.95% Ni, 354 ppb combined Pt and Pd and 136 ppb Au. Diamond drilling on this zone intersected a 6.5 m section of gabbro with pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite that assayed up to 1.09% Ni, 0.37% Cu, 301 ppb combined Pt and Pd and 1110 ppm Co (0.11%). The Ravenshill prospect was discovered in 2005 as a result of geological mapping and prospecting. It comprises near solid pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite in brecciated gabbro with assays of 0.66% Ni, 0.90% Cu, 0.09% Co, 68 ppb Pt, 227 ppb Pd and 46 ppb Au.

Private Placements

In order to finance North American Nickel's working capital needs and the phase one exploration work at Post Creek, North American Nickel has arranged two non-brokered private placements. The first will consist of 10,000,000 post consolidation shares at $0.05. The second will consist of 10,000,000 units at $0.06. The unit consists of one post consolidation share and one non-transferrable warrant to purchase an additional post-consolidation common share at $0.10 for 30 months after closing. The warrant may be subject to earlier expiry on the occurrence of a triggering event. The "Trigger Event" shall occur when the closing price for the North American Nickel common shares on a recognized exchange is greater than $0.40 per share for a period of twenty (20) consecutive trading days. On the occurrence of the Trigger Event at any time after 120-days post-closing, North American Nickel may choose, within 10 days of such a Trigger Event, to shorten the term of the warrants by giving unit holders notice of same.

VMS Ventures will own approximately 45% of North American Nickel at the completion of the two Private Placements.

TSX Venture Exchange Listing

Immediately, upon completion of the events detailed above and the receipt of Dr. Peredery's NI 43-101 report on the Post Creek, North American Nickel will apply to list its common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange, pursuant to a Listing Application on Form 2B.

About VMS Ventures

VMS Ventures Inc. is focused primarily on acquiring, exploring and developing copper-zinc-gold-silver massive sulphide deposits in the Flin Flon-Snow Lake VMS Belt of Manitoba. The Company's VMS project property portfolio consists of the Reed Lake Project, Copper Project, McClarty Lake Project, Sails Lake Project, Puella Bay Project and Morton Lake Project. Outside of the Snow Lake camp, the Company holds massive sulphide prospective properties near the past producing Fox Lake and Ruttan copper-zinc mines, near the communities of Lynn Lake and Leaf Rapids in northern Manitoba. In addition to the copper-zinc massive sulphide deposit prospects, VMS has extensive land holdings prospective for nickel-copper deposits north of Thompson and at South Bay in northern Manitoba and one project, Cedar Lake, in the southern portion of the Thompson Nickel Belt. All VMS Ventures Inc. properties are located in the mining friendly province of Manitoba, Canada.

About Widescope Resources

Prior to the developments noted above, the Company, through its 65% owned subsidiary, Pinefalls Gold, was primarily engaged in exploring for mineral resources on its mining claims in the area of Bissett, Manitoba. The claims are included in the Rice Lake greenstone belt and cover an area of approximately 2500 hectares.

VMS Ventures Inc. currently has a profile on Corebox.net which is updated as soon as assay results are released. The link to visit our Corebox profile is: http://www.corebox.net/properties/reed_lake/.

Investors are invited to visit the VMS Ventures IR Hub at http://www.agoracom.com/IR/VMSVentures where they can post questions and receive answers or review questions and answers already posted by other investors. Alternatively, investors are able to e-mail all questions and correspondence to VMS@agoracom.com where they can also request to be added to the investor e-mail list to receive all future press releases and updates in real time.

Statements about the Company's future expectations and all other statements in this press release other than historical facts are "forward looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and as that term defined in the Private Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the safe harbors created thereby. Since these statements involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, the Company's actual results may differ materially from the expected results.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John Roozendaal B.Sc., President & Director

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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