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High Value Zinc Results from Infill Sampling Pr...
High Value Zinc Results from Infill Sampling Pr....
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n 30 March 2021\n Conroy Gold and Natural Resources plc\n (“Conroy Gold” or “the Company”)\n HIGH VALUE ZINC RESULTS FROM INFILL SAMPLING PROGRAMME IN LONGFORD-DOWN MASSIF\n \n \n Values recorded up to 3,700ppm zinc\n \n \n \n \n 10 samples greater than 1,000ppm zinc\n \n \n \n \n High value Zinc-in-Soil anomaly extends over an area of c.0.8 km by c.0.9 km\n \n \n \n \n Underlying geology associated with sedimentary hosted Lead-Zinc style deposits worldwide\n \n \n Conroy Gold and Natural Resources plc (AIM: CGNR), the exploration and development company focused on Ireland and Finland, is pleased to announce results from an infill zinc-in-soil sampling programme on the northern (Aughnagurgan) section of the extensive (20km2) zinc zone which the Company has discovered in the Longford-Down Massif in Ireland (originally announced by the Company on 4th June 2009).\n Twenty-three of the sixty-five samples collected recorded values greater than 500ppm zinc over an area of c.0.8 km by c.0.9 km (68.7 Ha) at Aughnagurgan. Ten of the samples were reported as being greater than 1,000ppm zinc, with the overall range being from 74ppm to 3,700ppm zinc.\n The results also indicated the presence of a range of associated elements including; lead, cadmium, manganese and nickel.\n The zinc zone in the Longford-Down Massif lies to the south of the new district scale gold trend which the Company has discovered in the Massif and where, at Clontibret, the Company proposes to develop its first gold mine.\n The Longford-Down Massif has an established history of base metal mining including the Antimony mines at Clontibret, where gold was first discovered, and a series of shallow lead and zinc mines which were worked in the nineteenth century forming what was known as the Armagh – Monaghan mining district.\n The Tullynawood and Aughnagurgan mines in the area, which were worked for lead, were situated within c.1 km of the Aughnagurgan zinc target. Historical records report the trend of the lead veins worked from these mines, and if projected, they would appear to coalesce in the area of the Aughnagurgan zinc target, providing further evidence of the possible presence of base metal mineralisation.\n The underlying geology at Aughnagurgan (the Avaghon formation) consists of fine to coarse grained greywacke sandstone with minor black shales, volcanic hori...