RETRACTION: Petro-Plus -- Anglo Rouyn Copper-Gold.

LA RONGE, SASKATCHEWAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 1997--Petro Plus (Alberta Stock Exchange PPV.A.)

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Management wishes to announce that a contract has been awarded to Devex exploration (Dale Hoffman) of Vancouver to drill three of their 100 percent owned gold exploration properties, in Northern Saskatchewan.

Drilling is scheduled to commence in early March on their Ore Bay claim 3.5 kilometres from the Anglo-Rouyn minesite, 25 kilometres northeast of La Ronge, Saskatchewan. The program plans to test an EM conductive zone at a 50 meter depth, along a strike length of 500 meters. Drilling conducted in 1956 penetrated a mineralized upper zone but did not test the better EM response of the deeper zone.

The West Side Property drilling is planned to test a sheared contact within favourable rocks 4 kilometres west of the Contact Lake Mine. The Berven Property has anomalous gold values from 1988-89 drilling, within sheared intrusive rocks. The drill program is planned to extend the zone of known gold mineralization. -0-

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CONTACT: Petro Plus Inc.

Randy Studer, 306/ 425-3350