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IMPACT Silver Intersects 1,164 g/t Silver over 1.5 meters at Aurora 1
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About this update from Impact Silver Corp.
[{"type":"text","content":"IMPACT Silver Intersects 1,164 g/t Silver over 1.5 meters at Aurora 1\n\n(via Thenewswire.ca)\nJanuary 19 2009 - IMPACT Silver Corp. (\"IMPACT\" or \"the Company\" IPT-TSX.V) is pleased to announce drill results from a grid drill program on the Aurora 1 Zone in the Mamatla Mineral District. Highlights from the 24-hole, 1,324-meter drill program include the following:\n\nAURORA 1 ZONE \nDRILL HOLE No. TOP OF INTERCEPT (m) ESTIMATED TRUE WIDTH (m) SILVER (g/t) GOLD (g/t) COPPER (%) LEAD (%) ZINC (%) \nM08-01 9.2 9.9 196 0.5 0.2 1.7 3.0 \n including 0.6 103 0.3 0.6 11.1 18.9 \n including 0.6 789 0.2 0.4 0.9 1.5 \n including 0.6 1,345 3.2 0.7 2.7 5.0 \nand 48.6 2.4 303 2.1 0.4 1.4 2.7 \n including 1.1 420 0.5 0.6 2.4 4.8 \nM08-02 45.6 2.2 389 2.3 0.2 0.6 1.0 \n including 0.5 1,745 9.4 0.8 2.1 3.5 \nM08-07 8.6 9.2 125 0.5 0.2 1.6 3.0 \n including 0.4 770 5.9 0.7 2.8 5.6 \n including 2.1 219 0.3 0.4 2.9 5.2 \nM08-08 8.2 6.9 317 1.1 0.1 0.3 0.7 \n including 1.5 1,164 3 0.1 0.6 1.2 \n including 0.3 2,060 5.4 0.3 1.6 2.7 \nand 60.7 2.3 136 1.6 0.4 1.9 4.7 \n including 0.3 612 4.1 1.0 6.1 11.2 \nM08-11 32.1 4.1 320 1.3 0.3 2.3 4.2 \n including 1.5 626 2.9 0.8 5.5 10.1 \nM08-13 23.9 2.2 383 1.0 0.9 1.5 2.6 \n including 0.7 1,155 2.5 2.9 4.5 7.6 \nM08-24 27.6 4.6 214 0.6 0.3 1.7 3.9 \n including 0.5 683 1.9 0.9 2.7 5.6 \n including 2.4 226 0.5 0.3 2.4 5.4 \n\nThe holes were drilled over an area of 200m x 200m on a 25m x 50m drill grid. Other holes delimited the zone to the north and west. The zone remains open to the south and east for expansion. A map of the drill grid can be found on the Company's website, www.IMPACTSilver.com. The shallow depth below surface and orientation of the mineralization indicate that the zone has potential for low cost open pit mining.\n\nIMPACT won the 200-square-kilometer Mamatla Mineral District in a government auction in February 2007 and a field crew has been working there ever since. This is the first drilling carried out in the area by IMPACT. The Mamatla Mineral District is located immediately adjacent to and southwest of the Royal Mines of Zacualpan District, where IMPACT operates several silver mines. Mamatla is host to both epithermal silver veins and volcanogenic massive sulphide (\"VMS\") base and precious metal mineralization. The Aurora 1 Zone reported here and the nearby Capire Zone (250 meters t...