Canada Zinc Metals Announces Akie Underground Permit Extension

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[{"type":"text","content":"Canada Zinc Metals Announces Akie Underground Permit ExtensionCanada Zinc Metals Announces Akie Underground Permit Extension\nVancouver, British Columbia CANADA, August 22, 2013 /FSC/ - Canada Zinc Metals Corp. (CZX - TSX Venture), is pleased to announce that the Company has received a 3-Year extension to its Akie Underground Exploration Permit to December, 2017. The original underground exploration permit had an expiry date of December 2014.\nThe Akie property is the Company's flagship exploration project and host to the Cardiac Creek SEDEX Zn-Pb-Ag deposit. The Kechika Regional Project, represented by a series of property blocks including Pie and Mt. Alcock, extends northwest from the Akie property for approximately 140 kilometres covering the highly prospective Gunsteel Formation shale. The southernmost project boundary is located approximately 260 kilometres northwest of the town of Mackenzie, in northeastern British Columbia, Canada.\nUnderground Drill Permit Extension\nThe approval was received August 20th from the Permitting Division of the BC Ministry of Energy and Mines and will allow the Company additional time to execute the planned underground drill program over the next several years without the need for a permit revision or amendment.\nPeeyush Varshney, President and CEO, commented, \"We thank the permitting staff of the Ministry for their diligent and timely turn-around on our permit extension. This extension will give us additional time in which to execute our planned underground drill definition program.\"\n2013 Exploration Update\nThe Company is currently drilling the 6th drill hole on the Akie property of a planned 10 hole diamond drill program for 2013. Total drilling to-date is approximately 2,200 meters. Planned targets include several coincident geophysical/geochemical anomalies outbound of the Cardiac Creek deposit and specific pierce points on the deposit. The program is expected to continue into October. \nRecent geological mapping and prospecting has discovered a new zone of surface SEDEX mineralization on the eastern Akie property. The mineralization consists of massive barite mineralization in a vein or healed fault structure with abundant galena (lead sulphide). The new showing, termed Sitka, is situated along the contact between the Earn Group (Gunsteel shale) and Silurian Siltstone. Detailed mappi...

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