ZincX Resources Receives LiDAR Survey Datasets From the Akie and Mt. Alcock Properties
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / November 15, 2022 / ZincX Resources Corp. ("ZincX" or the "Company") (TSX Venture Exchange:ZNX)(OTCQB:ZNCXF)(FRA:M9R) is pleased to announce that it has received the high-resolution LiDAR datasets from the 2022 airborne survey flown over the Akie and Mt. Alcock properties.
Eagle Mapping Ltd. of Langley, British Columbia has successfully transferred the high-resolution datasets from the Mt. Alcock and Akie properties to the Company. These data include a high-resolution 0.5m Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and digital surface model (DSM), a bare earth point dataset, and a fully detailed topographical dataset including contours. The Company is expecting delivery of the final report on the survey in the coming weeks.
The Akie and Mt. Alcock properties remain high-priority exploration targets for the Company and the datasets from this survey will be used extensively in future exploration programs to assist in a variety of exploration activities ranging from geological mapping and interpretation, exploration drill hole planning and targeting, to the proposed geophysical ground gravity surveys over the Cardiac Creek deposit on the Akie property; and the Zn-Pb-Ag rich barite showing present on the Mt. Alcock property located approximately 40 kilometres to the northwest of the Akie Property.
The data is also expected to provide a solid foundation for any future surface infrastructure (e.g., road and bridge works, site infrastructure), engineering design plans (e.g., planned portal site, waste rock dump and sedimentation ponds), and geotechnical programs (e.g., geotechnical drill holes, trail construction), related to the development of the Cardiac Creek deposit as outlined in the Company's 2018 preliminary Economic Assessment.
The two properties were flown in grid pattern along a series of parallel lines while maintaining vertical and horizonal accuracies. The survey area of the Akie property consists of 97.6 km2 and the Mt. Alcock property consists of 91.2 km2.
The Company has previously engaged Eagle Mapping Ltd. on two other occasions; first in 2006 in order to collect a detailed set of orthophotos and provide detailed topographical data over the prospective areas of the Akie property to assist exploration efforts during the initial stages of drilling on the Cardiac Creek deposit; and again in 2011 to provide LiDAR coverage over a very narrow swath of the property that covered the proposed surface works including road construction to extend the Akie Mainline FSR, the waste rock dump, and the planned portal site.
The Akie Zn-Pb-Ag Project
The
Drilling on the Akie property by ZincX Resources since 2005 has identified a significant body of baritic-zinc-lead SEDEX mineralization known as the Cardiac Creek deposit. The deposit is hosted by siliceous, carbonaceous, fine-grained clastic rocks of the Middle to Late Devonian Gunsteel Formation.
The Company updated the estimate of mineral resources at Cardiac Creek in 2018, as follows:
Contained Metal: | |||||||
Category | Tonnes | Zn (%) | Pb (%) | Ag (g/t) | Zn (B lbs) | Pb (B lbs) | Ag (M oz) |
Indicated | 22.7 | 8.32 | 1.61 | 14.1 | 4.162 | 0.804 | 10.3 |
Inferred | 7.5 | 7.04 | 1.24 | 12.0 | 1.169 | 0.205 | 2.9 |
The Company announced robust positive results from the 2018 Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA). The PEA envisages a conventional underground mine and concentrator operation with an average production rate of 4,000 tonnes per day. The mine will have an 18-year life with potential to extend the life-of-mine (LOM) through resource expansion at depth. Key parameters for the PEA are as follows:
Parameter | Base Case1 |
Tonnes Mined | 25.8 Mt |
Mined Head Grades | |
Tonnes Milled | 19.7 Mt |
Milled Head Grades (after DMS2 upgrade) | |
Total Payable Metal (LOM) | |
Initial CAPEX | |
q | |
All-in Total OPEX | |
Pre-Tax NPV | |
Pre-Tax IRR | |
Pre-Tax Payback | 2.6 years |
After-Tax NPV | |
After-Tax IRR | |
After-Tax Payback | 3.2 years |
1. The base case used metal prices are calculated from the 3 year trailing average coupled with two year forward projection of the average price; and are: US
The PEA is considered preliminary in nature and includes mineral resources, including inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves. Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves have not yet demonstrated economic viability. Due to the uncertainty that may be attached to mineral resources, it cannot be assumed that all or any part of a mineral resource will be upgraded to mineral reserves. Therefore, there is no certainty that the results concluded in the PEA will be realized.
Kechika Regional Project
In addition to the Akie Project, the Company owns
Ken MacDonald P.Geo., Vice President of Exploration for the Company, is the designated Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the technical information contained in this release. Mike Makarenko P.Eng, JDS Energy and Mining, is the designated Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the PEA technical information contained in this release.
The TSX Venture Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ZINCX RESOURCES CORP.
"PEEYUSH VARSHNEY"
PEEYUSH VARSHNEY, LL.B
CEO & CHAIRMAN
CONTACT:
Investor Relations
Phone (604) 684-2181
info@zincxresources.com
SOURCE: ZincX Resources Corp.
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