GWR Resources extends Gold-rich Aurizon Central Zone, improves exploration targeting

	    ARMSTRONG, BC, Jan. 7 /CNW/ - GWR Resources Inc. (TSX Venture: GWQ) is
pleased to report additional assay results from the final two diamond drill
holes completed in 2009, designed to test the interpreted eastern boundary and
northern extension of the gold-rich Aurizon Central Zone (ACZ). The collar
locations of these vertical holes (AZ09-102 and AZ09-103) are indicated on
drill plans posted on the Company's website at www.gwrresources.com. Results
confirm previous structural interpretations, key to improved understanding of
the distribution of mineralization in this gold-rich zone and thus to
development of improved vectoring.
	    Hole AZ09-102 was positioned along the north-eastern corner of the
Aurizon Central Zone to confirm the eastern boundary as projected from holes
drilled in 2008. Earlier interpretation suggested the hole would effectively
define the eastern limit of the Zone, but the intensity of alteration
(chlorite, hematite, calcite veining) and fracturing encountered throughout
the hole and especially towards the bottom (368 meters below collar) indicates
extension to the east is possible at depth. Low copper values with weak gold
enrichment ((greater than) 0.1 gpt Au) were intersected at the top (0.1 gpt Au
over 26 m with 0.33 gpt Au over 3 m from 23-26 m) and further down-hole from
80-107 m. Spotty native copper was noted near the top. Hydrothermal breccia
was not observed, but zones with increased alteration occurring towards the
bottom have returned elevated gold and copper values (0.16 gpt Au over 33 m
from 275 to 308 m). These results prompted additional sampling to the bottom
of the hole, which has extended the low-grade gold zone an additional 33 m
down-hole resulting in 66 m at 0.16 gpt from 275 to 341 m. This includes a
narrow higher-grade zone (0.32 gpt Au over 9 m from 308 - 317 m).
	    Hole AZ09-103 was drilled on the north side of an east-west oriented (110
degrees) fault lying north of the core of the ACZ. The goal was to extend
known mineralization towards the north and to determine possible offset
direction/distance across the fault. The hole intersected mineralized orange
polylithic tuff with traces of native copper, a 75 m (down-hole) wide zone of
variably mineralized hydrothermal breccia (refer to table of assays, below),
then unmineralized grey monzonite. One faulted interval contains 7.49 gpt Au
over 2 m. The apparent displacement of hydrothermal breccia and mineralized
zones between drill sections located at 8120N and 8160N is approximately 100
m. This has confirmed our previous interpretation whereby east-west faults
appear to down-drop the mineralization to the north, providing continued
encouragement that additional mineralization lies untested in that direction.
A westerly component of movement is also apparent. This area will be a focus
for additional drilling in our 2010 exploration Program.

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	           NAD 83 Zone 10
	    Hole   -------------- Direc- Dip   EOH        Cu    Au  Length From   To
	             E      N      tion        (m)        (%) (gpt)   (m)
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	    AZ09-
	     102  617988 5758137      0  -90 364.8      Low but anomalous Cu and Au
	                                                grades along eastern edge of
	                                                Aurizon Central Zone, with
	                                                increasing grades and alter-
	                                                ation towards bottom.
	                                                 0.06  0.16    66   275   341
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	    AZ09-
	     103  617928 5758166      0  -90 386.1       0.13  0.20  41.4   4.6  46.0
	                                          includ-
	                                             ing 0.23  0.97   2.4   4.6   7.0
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	                                                 0.14  0.88  58.0   205   263
	                                          includ-
	                                             ing 0.05  7.49   2.0   205   207
	                                             and 0.21  1.06    10   217   227
	                                             and 0.32  1.31    10   241   251
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	    JK09-
	      02  619117 5758742     46  -60 340.4       No significant assay results
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	    The Lac La Hache exploration team has been very active during the
current, non-drilling phase. All re-logged Ann North drill cores have been
digitally plotted in plan, section and longitudinal views, with Cu and Au
values. Geological units, hydrothermal breccia, alteration styles and
post-mineral intrusive dikes have been consistently recognized, allowing new
interpretation which will guide future drilling in the area, in 2010. A
similar approach will be followed with re-logging of historical cores from the
NK, Harvey, and Peach Melba Zones, now underway.
	    GWR has commenced a program to rigorously evaluate the large quantity of
multi-element values resulting from Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) analyses
and Cu, Au, Ag assays of recent and many historical drill cores.
	    The database is estimated to contain over 800,000 values. Software has
been developed in-house to produce ten-meter-averaged plan maps for all
elements in all drill holes, supporting local zone and property-scale
correlation with geology, geophysics, structures, mineralization and
alteration patterns, again leading to improved vectoring. Comparison of the
multi-element core data with the new soil MMI 8-element data, in-house XRF
analyses of drill cores and magnetic susceptibility measurements will also be
completed. This information will significantly improve understanding of the
relationships between gold, copper, silver, other potentially economic
minerals that have not been rigorously evaluated to date, and potential
pathfinder elements which may serve as vectors towards improved grades,
perhaps at depth below several of the historical, shallow-drilled zones.
	    The work conducted at Lac La Hache in 2009 has provided new encouragement
in several areas. Although far less drilling was conducted during 2 campaigns
in 2009 than in previous programs in 2007 and 2008, targets were carefully
selected with specific goals, and as described in several recent news
releases, results were largely successful. (see all news releases and
additional information at www.gwrresources.com) The narrow but very high-grade
gold-rich Aurizon South Zone was extended to the north and south and remains
open. Aurizon Central drilling successfully extended the zone to the north,
where it also remains open. Preliminary reserves have been calculated for
Aurizon Central and results indicate grades and tonnage comparable to zones
currently being exploited at Mount Polley. GWR has obtained a combined copper
equivalent grade/tonnage figure, but is waiting for confirmation of the
separate, contained gold and copper figures before releasing this information.
The company expects to have this information by the end of January, 2010.
	    The Company completed a 1300 sample MMI soil sampling program in the fall
which has already proven extremely encouraging, generating new discoveries of
copper and gold within potassically altered monzonite, including structurally
controlled copper exceeding 11% Cu and 0.6 gpt gold. Using our in-house XRF
analyses, the MMI results, and laboratory geochemical analyses of the many
drill cores, the exploration team has shown that non-gold-bearing pyrite
yields low cobalt, and gold-rich pyrite (assays in the multigram/tonne Au
range) is associated with high cobalt. The MMI approach supports mapping of
the cobalt distribution in soils, and IP surveys allow mapping of pyrite-rich
zones in the bedrock, both methods offering detection to considerable depths.
Combined interpretation of these results will yield new targets to be
followed-up with systematic trenching, sampling and assaying early in the
spring 2010 program. A much larger, property-wide MMI program designed to
cover the entire property will be completed as soon an environmental
conditions allow.
	    Our goal is to use the power of improved geochemical analyses to
re-evaluate the soil metal anomalies (not just Cu and Au values) in
combination with new bedrock sampling (in new anomalous areas) and a revised
exploration model evolving from consistent core relogging of all holes drilled
on the property to date, to prove that the large alteration system has
bulk-mineable potential. The presence of gold-rich zones within the system
provides some additional encouragement.
	    The 2010 Drilling Program will focus on new targets indicated by the new
data and on testing several areas where mineralization near surface discovered
from relatively shallow historical drilling supports potential for deeper ores
below. The recent and exciting new deep discoveries made within the Quesnel
Trough at several properties, below known mineralization, provides a model for
the Lac La Hache property, which has the advantage of easy access and very
good infrastructure.

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conforms to the requirements of National Instrument 43-101. Rob Shives,
P.Geo., is the Qualified Person (as defined by NI43-101) who accepts
responsibility for the technical content of this news release.
	    This press release may contain "forward-looking statements". Readers are
cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance
and that actual developments or results may vary materially from those in
these "forward looking statements"

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	    About GWR Resources Inc.
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	    GWR RESOURCES INC. is an active mineral exploration company, currently
exploring multiple zones containing commercial grades of copper and gold
within its large Lac La Hache copper-gold porphyry project. GWR's project is
in the prolific Quesnel Trough area of British Columbia, between producing
mines at Imperial Metals' Mt. Polley Copper-Gold Mine and New Gold Inc.'s New
Afton Copper-Gold project (Teck-Cominco's legendary Afton mine). The Lac La
Hache project is well-served by rail, road and power infrastructure.

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