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Laurion to Focus 2020 Exploration Program on Bulk Gold Potential of 3 Major Mineralized Trends
Laurion to Focus 2020 Exploration Program on Bulk Gold Potential of 3 Major Mineralized Tr...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nLaurion to Focus 2020 Exploration Program on Bulk Gold Potential of 3 Major Mineralized Trends\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nTORONTO, Dec. 20, 2019\n\n\n\n/THIS NEWS RELEASE IS INTENDED FOR DISTRIBUTION IN CANADA ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES./\n TORONTO, Dec. 20, 2019 /CNW/ - Laurion Mineral Exploration Inc. (TSX-V: LME; OTCPINK: LMEFF) (\"LAURION\" or the \"Corporation\") is pleased to outline plans for the 2020 Exploration Program at the Corporation's wholly-owned Ishkoday Project (\"Ishkoday\"), located 220 km northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario (Figure 1).\nCynthia Le Sueur-Aquin, President and CEO of the Corporation stated, \"Our 2019 exploration work identified three major gold-mineralized trends, Sturgeon River Mine, M25/Marge and Loki, which extends along strike for 2+km, 1.8+km and 3+km, respectively as shown in Figure 2. The 2018 and 2019 channel and selected grab sampling campaigns returned a substantial number of significant gold and gold-silver-zinc assay results which not only validated historical sampling but also greatly expanded the target strike lengths. These results indicate that the gold-mineralizing event, or events are very widespread. The historic Sturgeon River Mine data further suggests that mineralization may be more extensive at depth. We now have three prime target areas to follow-up with further detailed geophysical surveys to define targets for drilling in 2020. Further surface work including channel sampling will also be carried out to expand our evaluation of these important trends.\nThe three major mineralized trends occur in the 5km by 1km overall Target Area and are characterized by two separate multi-episodic mineralizing events1:\nAn early, likely syn-volcanic, hydrothermal system, termed the Ishkoday-style Mineralization, which resulted in discordant, zoned, stockwork-style veins consisting of magnetite (iron oxide), actinolite (calcium aluminium silicate hydroxide), monazite (rare earths rich ph...