West High Yield Updates Status of Anticipated Preliminary Economic Assessment

As first disclosed by West High Yield (W.H.Y.) Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:WHY)
(the "Company") in 2009 and on September 29, 2011, October 27, 2011 and in a
number of subsequent news releases, the Company commissioned SRK Consulting of
Lakewood, Colorado ("SRK") to prepare a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA")
in respect of the Company's Rossland, British Columbia magnesium property (the
"Record Ridge South Property"). Completion of the PEA required the completion of
extensive metallurgical test work and the Company engaged Met-Solve Laboratories
Inc. ("Met-Solve") of Vancouver, British Columbia to continue metallurgical test
work to compliment work previously performed and to provide results to SRK for
incorporation into the PEA. The Company expects to be in a position and has
undertaken to provide the PEA in early May this year following completion of the
additional metallurgical test work and a technical review by the Company. 


The Company further advises that it missed meeting the previously reported PEA
delivery date because of delays with the final stages of metallurgical testing
specifically related to magnesium recovery. Met-Solve conducted test work to
evaluate the potential of using a hydrometallurgical process to extract
magnesium from mineral samples provided by the Company. This process allowed for
the conversion of magnesium to a marketable product. The program was designed to
evaluate the parameters which affect the amount of magnesium extracted via acid
leaching, slurry neutralization and impurity removal. The metallurgical test
work focused on optimization of the extraction process and improving the grade
and purity of the end product which was magnesium oxide ("MgO"). MgO is the raw
material required to further produce magnesium.


To date, under the preferred leach conditions, an average of 62.6% magnesium was
leached into solution and recovered. The barren solution contained 18.9% of the
total magnesium which was lost to wash water and some of which may be
potentially recoverable via recirculation. Further testing is yet to be
completed and the Company anticipates that improved magnesium recoveries will be
achieved and form the basis for economic models in the PEA. The current 62.6%
average magnesium recovery supports reasonable prospects of economic extraction
and magnesium resource estimates. The economic models within the PEA are very
sensitive to the magnesium recovery rate and the Company anticipates that the
additional required testing may allow for material positive change in the PEA
model assumptions used by SRK in the final PEA. 


The PEA is expected to reflect additional work that was recommended to be
undertaken in the Company's "NI 43-101 Technical Report on Resources, West High
Yield (W.H.Y.) Resources Ltd., Record Ridge South, Rossland, British Columbia"
prepared by SRK, SRK Project Number 183201 dated February 11, 2009 (the "2009
SRK Report"), which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. 


About West High Yield

West High Yield is a publicly traded junior mining exploration company focused
on the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral resource properties
in Canada with a primary objective to locate and develop economic gold, nickel,
and magnesium properties.


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
West High Yield (W.H.Y.) Resources Ltd.
Frank Marasco
President and Chief Executive Officer
(403) 660-3488
(403) 206-7159 (FAX)
frank@whyresources.com


West High Yield (W.H.Y.) Resources Ltd.
Dwayne Vinck
Chief Financial Officer
(403) 257-2637
(403) 206-7159 (FAX)
vinck@shaw.ca

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