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Midnight Sun Mining 2018 Exploration Update
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 3, 2018 / Midnight Sun Mining Corp. (the " Company " or " ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Midnight Sun Mining 2018 Exploration UpdateVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 3, 2018 / Midnight Sun Mining Corp. (the \"Company\" or \"Midnight Sun\") (TSX-V: MMA) is approaching completion of its Phase One 2018 exploration program on its Zambian copper-cobalt properties, the Solwezi Group of Licences (\"Solwezi Licences\"). This phase of exploration was designed to further develop an understanding of the geologic controls and mineralization on the Solwezi Licenses as well as develop targets for future diamond drilling.PHASE ONE ProgramPhase One of the 2018 exploration program employed a series of progressively more detailed techniques to refine the Company's comprehension of the geology and mineralization on the Solwezi Licences. Specific attention was given to the Mitu area, where copper-cobalt mineralization was confirmed by the 2017 drill program and favourable geology was established over a 17 kilometre strike length.Phase One of the 2018 exploration program included the following: 1,503 metres of diamond drilling; 10,424 metres of air core drilling; 34 line kilometres of Natural Sourced Audio Magneto Tellurics (\"NSAMT\") ground geophysics; 2,684 line kilometres of Versatile Time Domain Electromagnetic airborne geophysics (\"VTEM\") (in progress); and, complete re-logging of all historic drill core and geochemical samples.A team of geologists and data management personnel re-logged all historic drill core and plotted all soil geochemical samples from previous exploration campaigns. This data has been uploaded into the company's geological information system for collection and compilation, and together with the additional data gathered from this phase, will build an updated interpretive model to optimize future drill targets.NSAMT ground geophysics were run over additional areas of the Mitu copper-cobalt target which were not covered by geophysical lines in the 2017 exploration program. This survey was conducted on 500 metre spacings to provide a more detailed view of the position and distribution of the favourable black shale units which host the identified copper-cobalt mineralization at Mitu.Two air core drill rigs drilled a total of 10,424 metres to evaluate the intensity of copper-cobalt mineralisation in the conductor rocks highlighted by the NSAMT surveys. The results of this evaluation will guide diamond drill holes...