VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 24, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InZinc Mining Ltd. (TSX-V:IZN) (“InZinc” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce completion of a surface exploration program on the Indy zinc project (100% option) located in central British Columbia. The field program consisted of prospecting, geological mapping and soil geochemistry on high priority zinc geochemical anomalies B and C, two of four large geochemical anomalies occurring over a 6.5 km trend on the project.
Geochemical Anomaly B is host to a near surface 450 m long mineralized trend outlined by shallow, wide spaced historical drilling. 2017 soil geochemistry focused on a 1.4 km length of Anomaly B. Detailed sampling (50 m centered lines) has been completed over the 500 m long southern portion of the anomaly which is coincident with the area of mineralization outlined by historical drilling. Detailed soil sampling was further extended to cover the 900 m northern trend of the anomaly.
Wide spaced soil geochemistry has also been completed over a 600 m length at Anomaly C, located approximately 1 km north of Anomaly B.
Analytical results are currently being compiled with results from soil geochemistry and geological programs conducted in 2016, 2013 and 2012 with completion expected in September.
West Desert Project
The Company continues to refine its understanding of the West Desert project, with potential implications for future programs, joint or separate, focused on optimizing the existing deposit as well as following up on other targets, including historical hole CC-43, located approximately 650 m east of the existing deposit, which included an interval of 3.05 m grading 7.65% zinc, 3.50% copper and 25 g/t silver.
Participation at Metals Investor Forum
The Company is pleased to present at the Metals Investor Forum in Vancouver, BC, on September 15, 2017. The event, hosted by newsletter writers, showcases each writers’ Top Pick investment opportunities in the exploration and mining space.
About InZinc
InZinc is focused on growth in zinc through exploration and expansion of the advanced stage West Desert project (100%) in Utah and exploration of the early stage Indy project (100% option) in British Columbia. West Desert has a large underground resource open for expansion and has district scale exploration potential. A West Desert preliminary economic assessment completed in 2014 projected 1.6 billion pounds of zinc production over 15 years. Indy comprises both near surface exploration targets and regional discovery potential. Both zinc projects are well located with easy access and existing infrastructure.
