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Murchison Commences 4,000-Metre Diamond Drill Program on Wholly-Owned Brabant Lake Copper-Zinc-Silver-Gold-Lead Project and Stakes Additional Highly Prospective Ground
BURLINGTON, ON / ACCESSWIRE / January 18, 2021 / Murchison Minerals Ltd. ("Murchison" or the...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Murchison Commences 4,000-Metre Diamond Drill Program on Wholly-Owned Brabant Lake Copper-Zinc-Silver-Gold-Lead Project and Stakes Additional Highly Prospective GroundBURLINGTON, ON / ACCESSWIRE / January 18, 2021 / Murchison Minerals Ltd. (\"Murchison\" or the \"Company\") (TSXV:MUR) is pleased to announce that it has commenced its 2021 winter drill program at its flagship Brabant Lake Project which hosts the Brabant-McKenzie VMS Deposit. The 4,000-metre drill program is designed to:Further define the resource at the southern and northernmost extent of the Brabant-McKenzie VMS Deposit (1,200 m);Collect sample material from within the deposit for initial metallurgical testing (400 m);Follow up on the promising results of its 2020 drill campaign at the Main Lake Target (1,000 m);Drill test the recently acquired historic Zn-Cu Betty Showing (500 m);Drill test five high-priority drill targets identified during the 2019 and 2020 prospecting program (900 m).Strategic New Claims AcquiredThe Company has also recently acquired additional new claims via staking directly adjacent to the Brabant-McKenzie Deposit covering an area of 2.45 square kilometres. This area was formerly precluded from staking being held as provincial crown reserve CR-918, which lapsed on January 13th, 2021. This new mineral claim block is projected to contain the northernmost extent of the Brabant-McKenzie Deposit as well as the highly prospective historic Betty Zn-Cu Showing.Betty Zn-Cu ShowingThe Betty Showing (SMDI 1886 & 0414) is located directly on strike with the Brabant-McKenzie Deposit and is approximately 1.2 km north of the Deposit. The Betty Showing has a similar geophysical signature, and limited historic drilling targeting the near-surface extent of the geophysical anomaly intersected significant zinc, copper and lead mineralization. A drill hole discovering the showing location drilled in 1967 by Scurry-Rainbow intersected 1.5 m of 5% lead, additional drilling in 1972 by Canadian Nickel Company intersected 2.3 m grading 0.94% copper and noted significant sphalerite (zinc sulphide), but the reported work lacks zinc assays.Murchison plans to complete two 250-m drill holes to test the centre of the geophysical anomaly associated with the historic mineralization.Figure 1: Map highlighting the new claims and proposed holes for the Betty Zone with signi...