Fireweed Zinc Ltd (CVE:FWZ) has said it is ramping up exploration work at the Macmillan Pass project in the Yukon in Canada.
The company said the first core drill will arrive on site next week, with a second drill to arrive shortly after. Most drilling will be at Boundary Zone where there will be further testing of the wide, high-grade mineralization intersected in 2019.
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New discovery targets will also be drilled, including the 240 Mile Target, while geological mapping, geochemical sampling, and prospecting are underway in the Boundary Zone area and at 240 Mile Target.
Fireweed noted that ground gravity surveying has begun in the Fertile Corridor to the west of previous surveys, including the area around Boundary Zone, while an airborne VTEM-Magnetic geophysical survey over the western Fertile Corridor including the Boundary Zone area is also scheduled to start shortly.
“Our recent financing has allowed us to mount a big exploration program this summer that will run late into the season. We will be using two drills to step up the exploration of the Boundary Zone where last year we drilled very impressive intersections including 100 meters of 7.94% zinc from surface including 6.4 meters of 42.88% zinc. Our field crews have already been hard at work exploring other targets that we may also drill test in search of new discoveries. The next couple of months promises to be a busy and exciting time for the project”, Fireweed chief executive Brandon Macdonald said in a statement.
Fireweed is a mineral exploration firm focused on zinc and is aiming to advance the Macmillan Pass project, which hosts the Tom and Jason zinc-lead-silver deposits.
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