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Press Release      another company same area LAC ROCHER, QUEBEC - STAKING UPDATE Vancouver Stock Exchange                   S.E.C. Exemption 12(g)3-2(b) Trading Symbol NVE.V                   File No. 82-3822     Standard & Poors Listed February 3, 1999 NovaWest Resources Inc. ( the “Company”) “Symbol NVE-VSE”, is pleased to announce that with its partner Goldeye Explorations Ltd “Symbol GEYE-CDN”, that the companies have registered an initial 231 claims, the beginning of a significant commitment in the Lac Rocher area of Northwestern Quebec, located approximately 100 kms northeast of Mattagami.  The companies staking crews remain active at Lac Rocher. The Lac Rocher area is the site of an outstanding Ni-Cu-Co sulphide discovery by Nuinsco Resources Limited (Stockwatch January 20, 1999). The sulphides are hosted by a reportedly gabbro/gabbro-norite intrusive complex.  As announced by Nuinsco (January 25, 1999) the discovery hole, LR-99-1, intersected the intrusion said to typically contain 3 to 25% sulphides (Pyrrhotite-Pyrite) and the lower 14.5 metre section assayed 2.34% Ni, 1.15% Cu, 0.06 Co, 0.208 g/t Pt, and 0.120 g/t Pd.  The underlying footwall concentration of massive sulphides (Pyrrhotite-Pentlandite with grains up to 1cm-Chalcopyrite-Pyrite) was 3.2 metres thick and assayed 10.80% Ni, 0.25% Cu, 0.23% Co, 0.601 g/t Pt and 0.363 g/t Pd. These Novawest/Goldeye claims cover MAG/EM anomalies coincident with targeted geologic settings and lithologies.  It is Novawest/Goldeye's intention to complete a variety of geophysical programs in preperation of drill target identification in the immediate future. Novawest's management invites the public to visit the Company's homepage on the internet (www.novawest.com)for most of the current information about the Company.  Or contact Patrick O'Brien-President, Novawest Resources Inc. at 1-800-663-8990 or e-mail us at (novawest@novawest.com). ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF NOVAWEST RESOURCES INC. ______________________________ Patrick D. O'Brien, Director The Vancouver Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the information contained herein.