Trade Winds Ventures begins phase one of diamond drill program.

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Trade Winds Ventures Inc. has begun the first phase of a 4,000-metre winter diamond drilling program on near-surface targets on the M Zone of the Detour Lake Block A Project, 160 km northeast of Timmins.

Two diamond drills will operate around the clock on the site, drilling 26 holes in the western sector of the project in order to further define and upgrade the gold resource. An official resource estimate for the site was completed in October 2006, while the new zone was discovered in late winter.

The resource estimate, conducted by Golder Associates Ltd., outlined an indicated resource of 14,158,000...