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Arizona Silver Completes the First Exploration Work at Its New Sycamore Canyon Gold-Silver Project Graham County, Arizona
Reports Positive Initial Geophysical Survey and Completes Rock Chip Sampling VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arizona Silver Expl
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[{"type":"text","content":" Reports Positive Initial Geophysical Survey and Completes Rock Chip Sampling VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arizona Silver Exploration Inc. (the \"Company\") (TSX-V:AZS) is pleased to announce today the results of the initial geophysical surveying at its 100% owned Sycamore Canyon gold-silver property located in Graham County, Arizona. VLF-EM Surveying Arizona Silver Exploration Inc. completed eleven kilometres of VLF-EM survey lines across the prime gold-silver bearing breccia and silicified zone in the heart of the property. The survey grid covers an area 600 metres long by 500 metres wide, with geophysical lines on 25-metre spacing and stations every 10 metres. Notably, the survey detected the main target zone from one end of the grid to the other, and clearly shows the target extends beyond the limits of the initial grid. The main target is between 50-100 metres wide where exposed intermittently in outcrop, and appears to split into two sub-parallel anomalies 100 metres wide in aggregate at the southern end of the grid where the target is covered by shallow(?) alluvium. In addition to defining the geometry of the prime target area and the open extensions of this target to both the north and south of the initial grid area, the survey identifies several parallel but weaker structures that could represent additional targets within the grid area. A map of the initial geophysical results will be posted to the web site at www.arizonasilverexploration.com. Rock Chip Sampling The Company has also completed rock chip sampling across the geophysical grid area and has submitted 98 rock samples to ALS Minerals’ sample preparation facility in Tucson for multi-element ICP analyses and AA gold analyses. The objective of the sampling exercise is to be able to identify the visual geologic features that correlate with elevated gold and silver analyses. Historic rock sampling on the property by the underlying owners detected gold and silver values up to 31 gpt (0.9 opt) Au and 458 gpt (13.34 opt) Ag, but the descriptions of those samples are inadequate to correlate precious metal values with discernible geology. Earlier historic sampling on the property reported in 1962 and discovered in a report in the Arizona Geological Survey archives identified values of up to 50% Pb and 73.9 opt Ag from sample...