VMS Ventures Inc. (TSX VENTURE:VMS) ("VMS") is pleased to announce that HudBay
Minerals Inc. (TSX:HBM)(NYSE:HBM) ("HudBay") has completed year one option
commitments on four properties surrounding the Reed Copper project. The four
option properties are: Super Zone, Northeast, Northwest and Tower, in which
HudBay has the right to earn a 70% joint venture interest and, upon earning such
interest, VMS would retain a 30% interest.


HudBay has completed 17 exploration diamond drill holes to date on the option
and Joint Venture properties, including four holes on the Reed Copper project
(not including definition and geotechnical holes), eight holes and one deepened
hole on the Super Zone option, three holes on the Tower Zone option, three holes
in the Northwest option and one hole in the Northeast option. On May 17, 2011
VMS and HudBay announced the discovery of 7.18 meters of 7.44% copper (from
133.89 to 141.07 metres) in hole RLE006. Follow-up work has been on-going
including additional drilling, and surface and borehole pulse electromagnetic
surveys. Assays from additional holes on the new discovery and other exploration
targets are expected in a few weeks.


Neil Richardson, VMS' Chief Operating Officer states: "We are pleased with
HudBay's commitment to the option properties and the continuing advancement of
the Reed Copper project. HudBay is continuing exploration with two diamond
drills testing geophysical and geological targets on the option properties."


Reed Copper Project Joint Venture

A preliminary economic assessment and technical activities required for
permitting, including metallurgical and geotechnical testing and mine design,
are underway with the expectation of a mine construction decision by year-end.


On July 6, 2010 VMS and HudBay announced they had entered into a joint venture
agreement in which HudBay and VMS have 70% and 30% interests, respectively, in
the Reed Copper project property. The parties have also entered into four option
agreements which grant HudBay the right to earn a 70% interest in properties
surrounding the joint venture property held by VMS.


For additional details on the Reed deposit, see VMS' NI 43-101 compliant
technical report entitled "Technical Report Reed Deposit, Central Manitoba,
Canada" dated March 31, 2011, available at www.sedar.com.


About VMS Ventures Inc.

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 Copper 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. These properties are located in the mining
friendly province of Manitoba, Canada. The Company also has optioned three
properties in the Sudbury mining camp. They are Terra Incognita, Golden Pine and
Black Creek.


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John Roozendaal, President, VMS Ventures Inc.
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