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VMS:TSX.V

February, 2011

Discovering High Grade Copper Deposits

in Manitoba, Canada

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

NOTE:

Some of the statements contained herein may be forward-looking

statements which involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties.

Without limitation, statements regarding potential mineralization and

resources, exploration results, and future plans and objectives of the

Company are forward-looking statements that involve various risks. The

following are important factors that could cause the Company’s actual

results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such

forward-looking statements: changes in the world wide price of mineral

commodities, general market conditions, risks inherent in mineral

exploration, risks associated with development, construction and mining

operations, the uncertainty of future profitability and the uncertainty of

access to additional capital. There can be no assurance that forward-looking

statements will prove to be accurate as actual results and future

events may differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.

VMS Ventures Inc. undertakes no obligation to update such forward-looking

statements if circumstances or management’s estimates or opinions

should change. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on

such forward-looking statements.

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Introduction to VMS Ventures Inc.

Flin Flon – Snow Lake Belt - a World Class VMS Camp

Discovery – The Reed Lake Deposit

HudBay Minerals JV and 4 Option Agreements

Future Base Metal Discoveries: 2011 – 2012 Work Plan

Continuous drilling January – May 2011

Gold Discovery at the Sails Lake Project, January 10 2011

Discovering High Grade Copper

Deposits in Manitoba, Canada

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VMS VENTURES INC. (VMS:TSX.V)

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

(as at February 8, 2011)

Issued & Outstanding: 122,668,955

Options: 10,104,800

Fully Diluted: 132,773,755

Debt: $0.0

Capital: $17,000,000

Well funded junior with approximately $17 M treasury.

Geological Team With Proven Track Record of

Success.

2007 Discovered the Copper-rich Reed Lake Deposit

in Manitoba, Canada.

• JV Partner HudBay Minerals (T.HBM) is project

operator and financiers of Reed Lake

development. Reed Lake Project ownership is

70% HBM & 30% VMS.

Large, 100% held, highly prospective land package in

the prolific Flin Flon – Snow Lake Greenstone Belt of

Manitoba.

Aggressive Drill Program now underway ($5 million in

drill and other exploration activities planned for 2011)

testing for high grade copper-zinc-gold-silver deposits

in the mining friendly Province of Manitoba, Canada.

Record metal prices and growing interest in the

resource sector!

QUICK FACTS

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MANAGEMENT

Rick Mark, CEO & Chair – Rick has 24 years experience in the public marketplace and has been

CEO of VMS Ventures since 2005. VMS, and the three affiliated exploration companies in the North

Shore Mining Group, have raised over $45,000,000 since 2007.

John Roozendaal, President – John is the founding director of VMS Ventures Inc. He has been

involved in the mineral exploration industry for over 18 years, focusing on precious, base and

specialty metals in North America. John has been President of VMS since 2001.

Neil Richardson, COO – Neil has over 22 years experience in mineral exploration and mining

operations of base metal and precious metal deposits throughout Canada. Recently, Neil was the

Exploration Manager of Murgor Resources Inc., where he was involved in the delineation of three

projects to NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimates, project generation and process

discipline. Prior to joining Murgor in 2006, Neil worked for HudBay Minerals Inc. as a Senior

Exploration Geologist responsible for greenfield and brownfield projects in the Flin Flon – Snow Lake

area. He consulted to VMS since September 2009, and became COO in September, 2010.

Mark Fedikow, VP Exploration and Technical Services – Mark has 34 years of industry and

government experience as an exploration geochemist and mineral deposits geologist. He has worked

for major and junior mining companies and the Manitoba Geological Survey, completing his

employment at the Survey as Chief Geologist of the Mineral Deposits Section. In 2001, Mark was the

recipient of the Provincial Geologists Medal, a Canadian national award for outstanding geoscientific

achievement. Mark has been with VMS since 2008.

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FLIN FLON GREENSTONE BELT

• At current metal prices (to 2009) as produced approx $54 billion in Base and Precious metals produced.

• Most prolific greenstone belt in Canada in terms of $ value of production/km2.

• Continuous production for past 80 years. 36 copper-zinc and gold mines operated in the belt

Exposed Flin Flon Belt

4,442 sq km

Covered portion

15128 sq km

The Covered Part of the Belt is the New Frontier!

MAP AREA

A WORLD CLASS VMS CAMP

SNOW LAKE BELT

Lalor Lake

(Hudbay)

Reed Lake

(VMS Ventures Inc.)

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LAND HOLDINGS IN THE SNOW LAKE BELT

DOMINANT LAND

POSITION

• More than 105,000

hectares of 100%

owned ground

acquired before

the rush into base

metals.

RIGHT GEOLOGY

• Focused on

juvenile arc

(seafloor volcanic)

rocks (shown in

medium green).

These rocks host

all the mined VMS

deposits in the Flin

Flon - Snow Lake

camp.

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VTEM AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICAL COVERAGE OVER

VMS’ SNOW LAKE, MANITOBA PROJECTS

• Many recent

discoveries,

including VMS’s

Reed Lake

Deposit, were

made with VTEM

• VMS Ventures

has flown over

13,000 line-km of

VTEM over its

projects, majority

flown at 100 m

line spacing.

• 3 years and $3

million in work –

ready to drill.

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VMS’ REED LAKE DISCOVERY

• Discovery hole by VMS Ventures Inc. RD-07-02 October 4, 2007:

43.05 m @ 4.38% Cu

1.56% Zn

0.85 g/t Au

13.09 g/t Ag

• 72 holes drilled from July, 2007 to September, 2008.

High Grade Cu Intercepts By VMS

(2007 - 2008)

RD-08-53: 61.96 m @ 5.96% Cu

RD-08-61: 100.19 m @ 3.59% Cu

RD-08-41: 33.46 m @ 10.36% Cu

Incl. 28.08 m @ 13.03% Cu

Incl. 5.00 m @ 16.30% Cu

History

RD-08-36: 81.07 m @ 3.54% Cu

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AERIAL VIEW OF THE REED LAKE DEPOSIT

Provincial Road # 39

Tower Zone Option

Reed Lake Joint Venture

Snow Lake 75 kmReed Lake Deposit

(projected to surface)

Flin Flon 115 km

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Located 1 hour's drive from mill and concentrator facilities 500 feet (150 metres) from a paved Provincial Highway

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HUDBAY PHASE 1 PLAN

N

Purpose:

• Confirm / refine current model.

• Produce NI 43-101 compliant resource calculation (est. March 2011).

• Follow mineralization to depth.

Phase 1 Program Highlights:

Plan

Composite

Cross Section

Section(Looking 315°)

100 m

100 m

Credit: HBED September, 2010

• Drill holes on section

lines 50 m apart.

• 32 holes completed as

of Jan 31, 2011.

• Results up to drill hole

22 released to date.

• Down hole EM surveys

on every hole looking

approximately 100m in

all directions for

additional deposits or

mineralization.

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RLD002 reporting 38.55 metres grading 3.81% copper

RLD003 reporting 71.69 metres grading 6.69% copper

RLD006 reporting 63.70 metres grading 3.54% copper - 2.93% zinc

RLD012 reporting 15.76 metres grading 1.53% copper - 6.57% zinc - 1.30 g/t gold

RLD020 reporting 32.28 metres grading 3.41% copper - 1.33% zinc - 2.1 g/t gold

RLD021 reporting 28.05 metres grading 4.85% copper - 1.75% zinc - 2.35 g/t gold

Step-Out Drill Hole Results

RLD015 reporting 10 metres grading 2.39% copper

The step out drill hole discovered copper mineralization over 200 metres from

Reed Deposit!

2010 – 2011 In-fill Drill Highlights at Reed Lake

Deposit

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Reed Lake Deposit Longitudinal View

Zone 10

Zone 20

Zone 30

10.09 m @ 2.39% Cu

RLD015LONGITUDINAL SECTION

LOOKING NORTH

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VMS VENTURES – HUDBAY JV & OPTION

PROJECTS

VMS-Hudbay JV

• 30-70 joint venture, VMS carried to production.

• Hudbay is operator.

4 Option Agreements

• Hudbay is operator.

• $2.6 M in cumulative expenditures to earn 70%.

• Upon discovery VMS is carried on first $50 million of expenditures.

• Cumulative $2.8 M paid to VMS in July, 2010.

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REED LAKE

JOINT

VENTURE

REED

LAKE

PROJECT

NORTHWEST

ZONE

OPTION

SUPER ZONE

OPTION

NORTHEAST

ZONE OPTION

TOWER ZONE

OPTION

REED LAKE DEPOSIT

TOWER ZONE

HIGHWAY ZONE

MANY TARGETS READY TO DRILL ON THE JV AND

OPTION PROJECTS

Lens C

Lens BLens A

• Reed Lake Deposit produces a strong, coincident VTEM EM and magnetic anomaly.

• Numerous untested targets each with potential to be new mines or zones of copper-zinc-gold-silver mineralization

• Aggressive exploration and development activity now underway.

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SAILS LAKE UPDATE: DRILLED FALL 2010

• 25 km east of Snow

Lake - a major base

metal and gold

mining camp.

• Data compilation

indicated potential for

gold and base metal

deposits.

• Drilling by VMS in

2010 intersected

significant gold

mineralization over

long intervals in hole

SA-10-007.

Project Background

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SAILS LAKE: GOLD MINERALIZATION

Geology Plan

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NORTH AMERICAN NICKEL

VMS owns ~45% of

North American

Nickel.

Dr. Mark Fedikow,

President and COO.

TSX Venture

application pending.

Projects situated in

Thompson and

Sudbury, the two

most productive

mining camps in the

world class Circum-

Superior Nickel Belt.

OTCBB: WSCRF

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SUDBURY PROJECTS

Sudbury

projects are

focused on

highly

prospective

offset dykes.

Whistle Offset at FNX’s

Podolsky Mine

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2010-2012 WORK PLAN

Q3 Q4

Reed Lake Project

Drilling

Drill Results

Metallurgical Studies

Geotechnical Studies

Resource Estimate

Delineation Drilling

Prefeasibility Study Work

Sails Lake Project

Geophysics

Drill Permitting

Target Selection

Drilling

Drill Results

Project Evaluation

Copper Project

Geophysics

Target Selection

Drilling

Drill Results

Project Evaluation

Morton Lake Project

Geophysics

Target Selection

Drilling

Drill Results

Project Evaluation

Leak Lake Project

Geophysics

Target Selection

Drilling

Drill Results

Project Evaluation

McClarty Lake Project

Geophysics

Target Selection

Drilling

Drill Results

Project Evaluation

Puella Bay Project

Geophysics

Target Selection

Drilling

Drill Results

Geochemical Surveys

Project Evaluation

Q4

2011 2012

Q1 Q2 Q4 Q1Q3 Q2

2010

Q3

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VMS VENTURES INC. (VMS:TSX.V)

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

(as at February 8, 2011)

Issued & Outstanding: 122,668,955

Options: 10,104,800

Fully Diluted: 132,773,755

Debt: $0.0

Capital: $17,000,000

Well funded junior with approximately $17 M treasury.

Geological Team With Proven Track Record of

Success.

2007 Discovered the Copper-rich Reed Lake Deposit

in Manitoba, Canada.

• JV Partner HudBay Minerals (T.HBM) is project

operator and financiers of Reed Lake

development. Reed Lake Project ownership is

70% HBM & 30% VMS.

Large, 100% held, highly prospective land package in

the prolific Flin Flon – Snow Lake Greenstone Belt of

Manitoba.

Aggressive Drill Program now underway ($5 million in

drill and other exploration activities planned for 2011)

testing for high grade copper-zinc-gold-silver deposits

in the mining friendly Province of Manitoba, Canada.

Record metal prices and growing interest in the

resource sector!

QUICK FACTS

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