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Arizona Silver Exploration Inc. Completes Initial Q1 2018 Drilling Program
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 13, 2018) - Arizona Silver Exploration I...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Arizona Silver Exploration Inc. Completes Initial Q1 2018 Drilling ProgramVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 13, 2018) - Arizona Silver Exploration Inc. (TSXV: AZS) (OTCQB: AZASF) (the \"Company\" or \"Arizona Silver\") is pleased to announce that it has completed the Q1 2018 reverse circulation (\"RC\") drilling program at the Ramsey silver project located in La Paz County, Arizona, and all drill samples have been delivered to the ALS Minerals sample preparation facility in Tucson, Arizona.Q1 2018 RC Drilling ProgramAll holes intersected the target zone, all drill samples have been delivered to the ALS Minerals sample preparation facility and we await results. The Company will announce the results as soon as all \"seven\" holes have been assayed. The project went smoothly and was completed within budget.Phase 1 of the 2018 RC exploration drilling program at the Ramsey silver project initially consisted of six holes to be drilled to the northeast of the previous series of eleven drill holes which have all intersected silver across tens of metres in iron-rich Tertiary rhyolite and biotite latite, and underlying Cretaceous metasediments, above a low angle detachment fault floored by Precambrian granite. All six holes intersected the iron-rich Tertiary rhyolite, and drilled through the target interval of altered biotite latite before penetrating the detachment fault and underlying Precambrian granite, terminating at depths between 161-198 metres. All six holes penetrated between 38-75 metres of post-mineral cemented alluvium before encountering bedrock. The Ramsey Mine silver system dips beneath post-mineral cover immediately east and north of the old Ramsey Mine workings, and drilling through the post-mineral cemented alluvium is the only way to explore for the extension of the silver system lateral to the silver interval intersected to date.One additional hole (R1807) was drilled to take advantage of an existing pad and drill fluid sump (before reclamation) and angled across the projection of the northern extension of the old Ramsey Mine workings about 100 metres north of the main shaft location and about 50 metres north of the northern end of the old mine workings, where the high-grade zone was lost due to a fault offset. Hole R1807 penetrated 75 metres of post-mineral cemented alluvium before encountering the ...