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Fieldwork Commences on Eagle Plains' Ice River REE Project
CRANBROOK, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 28, 2022 / Eagle Plains Resources (TSXV:EPL) has mobilized...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Fieldwork Commences on Eagle Plains’ Ice River REE ProjectCRANBROOK, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 28, 2022 / Eagle Plains Resources (TSXV:EPL) has mobilized personnel to commence fieldwork on its 100%-owned Ice River Property, located 30km SE of Golden, British Columbia. The 2311 ha property is host to precious metals and rare earth element (\"REE\") mineralization in syenite and carbonatite dyke systems that are numerous and widespread over a 5+ kilometer-long corridor within the Ice River Intrusive Complex (\"IRC\"). Fieldwork will be funded by Eagle Plains and is budgeted at $100,000, focusing on priority targets generated by work on the property carried out by Eagle Plains and former partner Waterloo Resources in 2012.Ice River Geology and Project HistoryThe IRC is one of the largest and best preserved alkaline igneous complexes in the world. As such, it has been the focus of several projects from both economic and academic perspectives since its discovery ca. 1900. Mineral collectors have long been drawn to the area which is known for its sodalite-bearing syenites and specimen quality zeolites. A number of base and precious metal showings are known in the contact aureole of the IRC. Field work on the property by Eagle Plains since 2006 has established a widespread spatial distribution of REE and Nb mineralization. Total Rare-Earth-Elements (TREE) in excess of 34300 ppm have been documented in-situ, with 66 samples returning greater than 3000 ppm TREE and thirty-seven samples returning greater than 600 ppm Nb, over 5.6 km strike length.See Ice River Project Summary Map here2022 FieldworkButtress PeakDetailed prospecting and mapping along the limestone-intrusive contact where 2012 rock and soil sampling defined a 1000m x 500m REE-Zn-Mn-Ba-Mo geochemical anomalyYippee-Waterloo AreaDetailed prospecting and mapping of sodalite/syenite dykes where 10 grab samples collected in 2012 returned greater than 1000ppm NbSouth BowlDetailed follow-up mapping/prospecting and rock sampling of stratabound sulphide mineralization discovered in 2012 which returned up to 2.72% Zn, 2.41% Pb, 31.8 g/t Ag and 10336 ppm TREE in a grab sampleManagement cautions that rock grab samples are selective samples by nature and as such are not necessarily representative of the mineralization hosted across the property.Dr. Anton Chakhmouradian, geology profes...