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Viscount Announces 2016 Work Program at Cherry Creek, Nevada
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - April 6, 2016) - Viscount Mining Corp. (TSX VENTURE:VML)(OTCQB:VLMGF) ("Viscount" or "the Company"), is pleased to a
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[{"type":"text","content":"VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - April 6, 2016) - Viscount Mining Corp. (TSX VENTURE:VML)(OTCQB:VLMGF) (\"Viscount\" or \"the Company\"), is pleased to announce the 2016 work program which will commence shortly on the Cherry Creek Property, Nevada. The program will be conducted by Summit Mining Exploration, Inc. (\"Summit\"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation. The Cherry Creek Mining Property is located in White Pine County approximately 56 miles or 90km north of Ely, NV. The district has a long history of gold, silver, lead, zinc and tungsten production from high-grade vein and replacement deposits. This program follows up on the successful 2015 work program on Flint Canyon about which Summit stated, \"Flint Canyon is a very high priority target area for 2016\" as was indicated in the Viscount new release from October 29, 2015. Kaare Foy, Viscount Chairman stated: \"We have a great exploration partner with Sumitomo Corporation and are encouraged with the 2015 work program results. In 2016 we will be working in two very prolific gold and silver jurisdictions and expect it to be a very exciting year for Viscount shareholders.\" Flint Canyon 2016 Work Program The Flint Canyon area contains highly dissected fault blocks of the Dunderberg Shale and is generally recessive with the underlying Marjum Limestone and overlying Notch Peak Limestone. The Dunderberg shale appears to be moderately altered throughout its distribution at Cherry Creek, and at Flint Canyon it experienced widespread and significant alteration by hydrothermal fluids. The Flint Canyon jasperoid and carbonate rock chip samples from 2015 work program are highly anomalous in gold mineralization. At Flint Canyon, the Pogonip Formation overlies the Notch Peak and both units are important host rocks for Carlin-type gold mineralization in east‐central Nevada. Jasperoid occurrences in Nevada are significant in context to Carlin-type gold deposits and mineralized jasperoid outcrops are common throughout the Flint Canyon area. They occur principally along the base of the Dunderberg Shale but other outcrops are found along Pogonip‐Notch Peak contact. Many major gold discoveries have been made based on the presence of outcropping, weakly mineralized jasperoid hosted in and along bedding contacts of carbonate rocks. At Flint Canyon, jasperoid is found ...