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2009 Akie and Kechika Regional Exploration Program Commences
2009 Akie and Kechika Regional Exploration Program Commences
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n2009 Akie and Kechika Regional Exploration Program Commences\n\n\n Jul. 15, 2009 (Filing Services Canada) -- Canada Zinc Metals Corp. (CZX - TSX Venture), (\"Canada Zinc Metals \" or the \"Company\") is pleased to report that the 2009 exploration program on the Akie Property and Kechika Regional tenures (collectively the\" Properties\") has commenced. This year's exploration program, which is helicopter supported, will be staged from the Akie base camp and will consist primarily of geologic mapping, geochemical sampling and detailed prospecting, with particular emphasis on the latter.. The Properties, all owned 100% by the Company, are centered approximately 260 kilometers north-northwest of the town of Mackenzie in northeastern British Columbia. Akie Property ProgramWork will focus on three high priority soil +/- silt geochemical targets, all underlain by permissive Gunsteel shale, that have been identified as a result of previous work by the Company and others. Of these, the North Lead Anomaly, located some 2.3 km northwest of the nearest drill hole to penetrate the Cardiac Creek deposit, is considered to be the most prospective due to the presence of coarse grained, heterogeneous, mineralization encountered in a 1996 drill hole (11.60% zinc and 9.05% lead over an interval of 0.80 m) within a geologic environment identical to that at Cardiac Creek. In addition, this mineralization is accompanied by sulphide (pyrite, sphalerite and galena) replacement of the fragments and the matrix of an underlying debris flow, quartz-carbonate alteration in footwall rocks beneath the debris flow, and widespread high lead/zinc ratios in the soil samples collected from the surrounding area, all characteristics of a typical vent complex/feeder zone associated with a SEDEX deposit. Hydrothermal centres such as these are often associated with higher grade mineralization at the transition between the vent complex and the laterally extensive bedded ore facies.Kechika Regional ProgramThe Kechika regional program will focus on the Pie, Yuen Extension and Yuen claims that extend northwestward from the Akie Property for a distance of some 30 km and encompass the key geological package of Middle to Late Devonian fine grained sediments and associated carbonate rocks that host the Company's Cardiac Creek deposit and the nearby Cirque deposits owned by Te...