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Akie and Kechika Regional Property Update
Akie and Kechika Regional Property Update
About this update from Zincx Resources Corp.
[{"type":"text","content":"\nAkie and Kechika Regional Property Update\n\n\n Sep. 23, 2009 (Filing Services Canada) -- Canada Zinc Metals Corp. (CZX - TSX Venture), is pleased to provide the following update on the status of the Company's extensive, 100% owned mineral tenures in the Kechika Trough SEDEX zinc-lead district of northeastern British Columbia. Project UpdateThe 2009 exploration program's focus was on discovery of new mineralized targets within the Kechika Regional tenures and completion of additional detailed geologic mapping and soil, silt and rock sampling in specific areas on both the regional claims and on the Akie Property. Several new mineral occurrences have successfully been identified as a result of the 2009 program. The most prospective ones, based on presently available information, are the 'GPS' barite-laminated pyrite showing and the 'Breccia' sphalerite-galena-barite showing in the western and central areas of the Pie claim, respectively (refer to August 12, 2009 news release for details). The GPS showing is hosted by black shales similar to, and along strike from, rocks containing the Cirque deposit. The Breccia occurrence is at a shale-limestone contact, a common stratigraphic address for lead-zinc mineralization in the Kechika Trough. The 2009 exploration program has recently been concluded. Complete analytical data sets for both discoveries are awaited. Once the results for all samples have been reviewed and compiled, the Company looks forward to providing this information to shareholders.Mineral TenuresThe Company's current mineral tenures comprise two claim groups, a large eastern block, some 140 km long and encompassing 75,596 hectares, that includes the Akie Property (10,205 hectares) and the contained Cardiac Creek zinc-lead deposit, and a nearby, smaller western block, that encloses 2,293 hectares. The eastern claims are underlain generally by highly prospective pyritic black shales of the Gunsteel Formation, the host rocks to the Cardiac Creek, Cirque and Driftpile deposits and the important Mt. Alcock occurrence, while the western claims overlie older pyritic black shales containing abundant structurally controlled pyrite and lesser sphalerite. The Company is very pleased to report that, as a consequence of two recent submissions to the British Columbia government of applicable 2008 exploration work expenditures, the ...