Positive Signs From First Hole In 2020 Surface Drill Programme At Prairie Creek
NorZinc Ltd (TSX: NZC) has had early success from surface drill hole PC-20-225, the first hole drilled at the company’s Prairie Creek Mine Site in Canada since 2015.
Designed to target the inferred Main Quartz Vein (MQV) resource immediately adjacent to but outside of the existing mine plan, PC-20-225 intercepted the MQV as expected plus two stockwork (STK) zones not yet included in any resource estimate to date. Further holes are planned for 2021.
Assay Highlights of Hole PC-20-225
- MQV intercept 4.26m (estimated true width 3.94m) grading 203.8g/t (5.9 oz/ton) Silver, 27.18% Zinc and 16.89% Lead (56.28% ZnEq)
- STK intercepts
- 1.02m grading 189 g/t (5.5 oz/ton) Silver, 25.40% Zinc, 10.4% Lead (45.28% ZnEq)
- 1.02m grading 120 g/t (3.5 oz/ton) Silver, 32.50% Zinc, 4.47% Lead (42.45% ZnEq)
- 1.86m grading 205.3 g/t (6.0 oz/ton) Silver, 9.43% Zinc, 20.19% Lead (42.91% ZnEq)
While the drill programme was recently concluded, a company-owned drill remains on the drill pad and has been winterised, for potential re-activation once warmer conditions arrive.
New geological data, including assays, will remain archived in the company’s geological databases and will be incorporated into future geological modelling and resource estimates.
