West Melville Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:WMM) ("West Melville" or "the Company")
and Hunter Minerals Pty Ltd ("Project Vendor") have agreed to amend the Isortoq
Purchase Agreement (the "Agreement") to reduce the cash payment due from West
Melville on December 31, 2012 from that amount equal to 10% of the gross
proceeds of the Company's IPO (approximately US$ 550,000) to US$ 250,000. The
Company will secure 100% ownership of the Isortoq Property on July 31, 2013 by
paying the Project Vendor the amount that is equal to US$2,500,000 less the
amounts paid up to and including December 31, 2012 (US$ 1,073,875) and issuing
to the Project Vendor that number of share purchase warrants (the "VWAP
Warrants") equal to US$500,000 divided by the price which is equal to 120% of
the volume-weighted average trading price of the common shares calculated over
the ten trading days up to but excluding July 31, 2013 (the "VWAP Price"). The
VWAP Warrants will be exercisable for a period of five years and will be
exercisable at a price equal to the VWAP Price. 


Isortoq Project

The 41,900 hectare Isortoq Project is a large iron-titanium-vanadium prospect in
southern Greenland. Previous drilling has confirmed a potential strike length of
15 kilometres with the mineralized body being open in both directions. The
property is favourably located on a deep, ice-free ocean inlet on the temperate
southern coast of Greenland within 60 km of Narsaq and 100 kilometres from
Narsarsuaq International Airport. The mineralization at Isortoq is similar to
the Mapochs deposit in South Africa, which has been successfully exploited for a
number of decades by Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium Ltd. and its
predecessors. Bench scale beneficiation tests completed on Isortoq core samples
in 2010 by Xstrata Services gave average concentrate grades of 62.6% FeO (48.7%
Fe); 19.1% TiO2 and 0.32% V2O5 with acceptably low levels of penalty elements S,
P, Si, Al. These are positive indicators that support the economic potential of
the project. 


QA/QC 

Disclosure of a scientific or technical nature contained in this release has
been reviewed and approved by Bruce Counts, P.Geoph. (Director of West Melville)
who is the Qualified Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101.


About West Melville Metals Inc.

West Melville is an iron ore and specialty metals exploration company working to
advance the Fraser Bay iron ore project in Nunavut and the Isortoq
iron-titanium-vanadium project in Greenland. The Company has assembled an
experienced management team with a track record of discovery success and a Board
of Directors with expertise covering the essential fields of geology,
engineering and finance. West Melville's projects offer a combination of low
geological risk with significant upside potential in high demand commodity
sectors.


On behalf of the Board of Directors

Rory O. Moore, Ph.D., President and CEO

West Melville Metals Inc.

For further information about West Melville Metals Inc. or this news release,
please visit our website at www.westmelville.com.


West Melville Metals Inc. is a member of the Aurora Mineral Resource Group of
companies. For more information please visit www.auroraresource.com. 


Certain disclosures in this release, in particular regarding the economic
potential of the Isortoq Project and the Company's interest therein, constitute
forward-looking statements that are subject to numerous risks, uncertainties and
other factors relating to West Melville's operations as a mineral exploration
company that may cause future results to differ materially from those expressed
or implied in such forward-looking statements, including risks as to the
completion of the plans and projects. Readers are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on forward-looking statements. Other than as required by applicable
securities legislation, West Melville expressly disclaims any intention or
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a
result of new information, future events, or otherwise.


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