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Viscount Announces BLM Approval for Drill Pads and New Road Construction at Flint Canyon, Cherry Creek, NV
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - June 22, 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 - June 22, 2016) - Viscount Mining Corp. (TSX VENTURE:VML)(OTCQB:VLMGF) (\"Viscount\" or \"the Company\"), is pleased to announce the Company has now received approval at Flint Canyon for new drill hole pad locations, sumps, and road construction under a Notice of Intent (\"NOI\") submitted to the Nevada Bureau of Land Management (\"BLM\") earlier this spring. With this approval Viscount will have a 7,046 ft. new road, with Phase 1 of the 2016 RC drill program which will consist of approximately 18 holes for 4,380m (14,366 feet) starting at Flint Canyon scheduled for early August. About Flint Canyon The 2015 mapping at Flint Canyon found the area to be much more complexly faulted than previously indicated on the Adair 1961 geologic base map. Summit's mapping program found that east-west orientated faults and fractures, which are important ore controlling structures at the Ticup and Star Mines, also occur in the area. The Flint Canyon area contains highly dissected fault blocks of the Dunderberg Shale with the underlying Marjum Limestone and overlying Notch Peak Limestone. 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 extremely 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 in the same carbonate rocks that are prolific host rocks at nearby large gold deposits (Newmont Mining-Long Canyon). The jasperoid beds, interpreted as west dipping tabular features, occur along the base of the Dunderberg Shale and within the Pogonip group limestone. Summit's geological team indicated that the Dunderberg Shale is generally recessive and is exposed mainly along the outcropping contacts with more competent rocks. The Dunderberg appears to be moderately altered throughout its distribution, and at Flint Canyon it experienced widespread and significant alteration by hy...