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Encouraging Results - 2009 Akie Property and Kechika Regional Exploration Programs
Encouraging Results - 2009 Akie Property and Kechika Regional Exploration Programs
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nEncouraging Results - 2009 Akie Property and Kechika Regional Exploration Programs\n\n\n Aug. 13, 2009 (Filing Services Canada) -- Canada Zinc Metals Corp. (CZX - TSX Venture), is pleased to provide the following encouraging progress report on the 2009 exploration programs currently underway on the Akie Property and Kechika Regional tenures (collectively the\" Properties\"). Kechika Regional ProgramThe 2009 Kechika regional program has been largely directed towards the Pie, Yuen Extension and Yuen claims that extend northwestward from the Akie Property for a distance of some 30 km. These properties encompass the highly prospective geological package(s) of Middle to Late Devonian fine grained sediments and associated carbonate rocks that host both the Company's Cardiac Creek deposit and the nearby Cirque deposits owned by Teck Resources and Korea Zinc. The Pie claims have yielded initial exploration encouragement consisting of the following:* Discovery of a 70 metre long by 1.5 metre thick occurrence of bedded barite (\"GPS Showing\"), and associated iron seeps, and a nearby showing of laminar pyrite showing, all within black shales believed to represent the possible strike extension of the Cirque stratigraphy. * Prospecting and hand trenching in the vicinity of the main Pie showing has resulted in discovery of a float fragment of laminated sphalerite (zinc), galena (lead) and pyrite mineralization identical to that present in the Cardiac Creek deposit and several occurrences of breccia within limestone, or in contact with the limestone, containing coarse grained galena, brown sphalerite and, in at least one instance, large (to > 2 cm), lath-like crystals of minerals interpreted to be white barite. At the present time, the breccia zones are being investigated further by additional hand trenching and channel sampling with a diamond saw.A large number of rock, soil and silt samples have also been collected during the regional program and results are awaited. Akie Property ProgramWork to date on Akie has been focused on detailed geologic mapping in the general vicinity of the North Lead Anomaly located at the northern end of the property. This additional mapping has provided important information on the distribution of geological units in this highly prospective area, including identification of carbonate outcrops which, along wit...