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Fireweed Zinc reveals two drillbits now turning at Macmillan Pass

Last updated: 10:06 26 Jun 2018 EDT, First published: 05:06 26 Jun 2018 EDT

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Drilling has started at Macmillan Pass, said Fireweed on Tuesday

Fireweed Zinc Ltd (CVE:FWZ), the Yukon-based junior, revealed on Tuesday that the drillbit had started turning at its Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project.

The first two drills have now started step out holes south of the Tom West Zone targeting high-grade mineralization in a bid to expand mineral resources.

A third rig will start up over the next two weeks.

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"With a healthy treasury, we are planning to both drill to expand and upgrade our mineral resource and carry out aggressive exploration toward making new discoveries," said Brandon Macdonald.

"We have assembled a very large under-explored land package in a district known for producing large zinc deposits.

"Our field work will cover untested priority targets and greenfields exploration areas in search of new discoveries, some of which we hope will be ready to drill later this season.”

Fireweed noted that the exploration was being driven by modern exploration concepts.

As reported, field work began several weeks ago with sampling and surveying orientation grids to optimize exploration methodologies.

So far, around 2,400 geochemical samples have been collected in the immediate Tom and Jason deposit areas with plans to sample the End Zone area next.

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Ground geophysics, including gravity and passive seismics, has been completed over Jason and is now in progress at Tom, the firm added.

Mapping and prospecting have also begun.

When field work on these priority deposit areas has been completed, results and methods will be interpreted and assessed, and field work will continue in search of new discoveries, the firm added.

Fireweed has acquired control of almost the entire Macmillan Pass zinc district, a 470 sq km land package, which hosts the Tom and Jason zinc-lead-silver deposits.

This is  the first time in more than 25 years that any large-scale exploration program has been carried out in the district.

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