Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. - New 7 Zone opens up at depth drill hole EU-756 intersects 89.94 gAu/tonne over 2.32 metres true width

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TORONTO, Sept 15, 2014 /CNW/ - Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX: WDO) is pleased to announce promising drill results from the new 7 Zone located 200 metres north and parallel to the main producing 8 Zone structure at its100%-owned Eagle River Mine, located 50 km due west of Wawa, Ontario.

Highlights include the following consecutive holes:

• EU-753       30.54 gAu/tonne over 1.42 metres true width
• EU-754       28.33 gAu/tonne over 3.13 metres true width
• EU-755       16.48 gAu/tonne over 2.19 metres true width
• EU-756       89.94 gAu/tonne over 2.32 metres true width
• EU-757         7.93 gAu/tonne over 1.41 metres true width
• EU-758         5.13 gAu/tonne over 3.10 metres true width
• EU-759       16.53 gAu/tonne over 2.02 metres true width

Rolly Uloth, President, comments "The Eagle River Mine has been steadily producing for 20 years and continues to show promise at depth and in recently recognized parallel zones within range of existing workings.  Today's results confirm the potential for another additional high grade mining area at depth.  Further drilling is underway to fully delineate its size potential and prospecting efforts will attempt to trace its projection to surface."

A complete list of results to date is provided in the following table with hole locations provided on the accompanying longitudinal section.

Drilling demonstrates high grades, good widths and continuity at depth and towards the west where the zone remains open.

Drilling continues to delineate and define two new parallel structures (the 7 Zone and 300 Zone) initially announced in a press release dated August 19, 2013, available at www.wesdome.com.

Gold mineralization at the Eagle River Mine is hosted by east-west striking, steeply north-dipping laminated quartz veins.  The veins occur as tabular lenses occupying shear zones following the long axis of a 2.0 kilometre by 0.5 kilometre elongate quartz diorite stock.

Since the first gold bar was poured on October 17, 1995, the Eagle River Mine has produced 988,070 ounces of gold from 3,357,994 tonnes milled at an average recovered grade of 9.2 gAu/tonne.

TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE

All assays are performed by fire assay on 25 gram aliquots at the Eagle River Mine Assay Office.  Duplicates, replicates, blanks and standards are routinely inserted into the sample stream to monitor quality control.  The technical content in this press release was compiled by Daniel Lapointe, PGeo, Chief Geologist at Eagle River and "Qualified Person" as defined and required by National Instrument 43-101 "Standards of Disclosure".

ABOUT WESDOME

Wesdome is in its 28^th year of continuous mining operations in Canada.  It currently has two producing gold mines in Wawa, Ontario, the Kiena Mine Complex in Val d'Or, Québec and the 3 million ounce Moss Lake gold deposit located 100 kilometres west of Thunder Bay, Ontario.  The Company has approximately 111.1 million shares issued and outstanding and trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "WDO".

Rolly Uloth
President & CEO

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*   Previously released August 19, 2013 (www.wesdome.com)

**   High grades cut to 60 gAu/tonne

SOURCE Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd.