MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Feb. 5, 2009) - Freewest Resources Canada (TSX VENTURE:FWR) (the "Company") is pleased to announce further diamond drilling results recently obtained from the Company's 100%-owned McFaulds property (the "Property"). The Property, consisting of 4 mineral claims or 1036 hectares, comprises one of three properties in which the Company is currently exploring, on its own and in strategic joint-ventures in the emerging "Ring of Fire" metal district. Specifically, this news release documents partial drilling results obtained from the Company's pre-Christmas drilling of the Black Thor chromite zone as well as a few holes that targeted low priority copper-nickel-platinum group element targets (PGE), situated stratigraphically below Black Thor (F2 target).

BLACK THOR CHROMITE DRILLING RESULTS:

Drilling of the Black Thor chromite zone continues to generate exceptional widths of high-quality chromite mineralization believed to be of world-class caliber. Highlighting the recently received results is an intercept of 40.1% Cr2O3 (over a core length of 52.0) metres in drill hole BT-08-12. This higher grade section comprises part of a wider mineralized interval yielding 30.0% Cr2O3 (over an intersected length of 124.0) metres. A shallower drill hole completed on the same section (1000N), BT-08-11, returned an intercept of 25.8% Cr2O3 (over a core length) of 59.5 metres. Although the true widths of the mineralized intercepts are not conclusively known, the estimated true width of the chromite zones intersected in holes BT-08-11 and BT-08-12 are 45 metres and 75 metres, respectively. The detailed results of the above holes as well as those already reported for the Black Thor chromite zone are summarized in Table 1.

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                        TABLE 1 - BLACK THOR DRILL RESULTS
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Hole No.