Fireweed Metals Corp (TSX-V:FWZ, OTCQB:FWEDF) has announced the final set of results from the 2022 drill program at the Tom deposit at its 100%-owned Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Canada's Yukon Territory, which uncovered multiple wide and high-grade intersections including 40.6 metres (m) true width of 15.2% zinc, 14.6% lead, and 181.6 grams per tonne (g/t) silver, as well as 20.9m of 20.7% zinc, 22.4% lead, and 280.0 g/t silver.
The mineral exploration company said many of the 2022 drill holes have demonstrated significantly better grades and/or wider intersections than the current mineral resource block model at the same location.
“The holes are infill, yet the grades in most of these holes are significantly higher than what has been estimated in our current Mineral Resource for those intersections,” Fireweed Metals CEO Brandon Macdonald said in a statement.
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“We have hit extremely high zinc, lead, and silver grades in intersections of massive sulphides in the feeder zone that are better than anything that we have seen before at Tom West,” he added.
Macdonald also noted that the company sees great potential for growth of the Tom resource.
Fireweed added that all assay results from the 2022 program have now been released.
The 100% owned, road-accessible Tom and Jason deposits are some of the world’s largest undeveloped zinc deposits and host combined current mineral resources of 11.21 metric tons (Mt) Indicated resource consisting of 6.6% zinc, 2.5% lead, and 21.3 g/t silver, as well as a 39.47 Mt Inferred resource of 5.84% zinc, 3.14% lead, and 38.2 g/t silver, according to the company.
Fireweed Metals is a public mineral exploration company on the leading edge of critical minerals project development.
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