Troy Minerals Inc. announced that the USGS (United States Geologic Survey) has begun flying an airborne magnetics and radiometric survey in Wyoming which includes the company's Lake Owen Project in Wyoming, USA located approximately 50km southwest of Laramie, Wyoming. The Lake Owen Project is a Proterozoic layered mafic intrusion complex with a long history of exploration for platinum group elements. Similar in style to the Stillwater Complex and the Merensky Reef of South Africa, the Lake Owen Complex also holds world class potential for vanadium and titanium resources.

The US government has identified the Lake Owen Complex as a potential source of strategic metals including vanadium, titanium, PGE and copper and nickel sulfides and has budgeted an airborne program (Earth MRI:) to better understand its geologic setting and mineralized potential. In a joint effort with the Wyoming Geologic survey, the USGS will fly the entire area of the Lake Owen Complex and include 100-meter line spacing over the company's Lake Owen Project. In conjunction with the Wyoming Geologic Survey, the USGS will have field crews on the property with a mandate that will include mapping, local gravity measurements, bedrock sampling and petrographic analysis.

Depending upon weather, the USGS plans to finish the program by the end of this year.