Fireweed Metals Corp (TSX-V:FWZ, OTCQB:FWEDF), formerly known as Fireweed Zinc Ltd, announced that the 2022 diamond drilling program has begun at its Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Canada’s Yukon Territory, which involves the use of four drills.
The mineral exploration company said three drills will focus on the Boundary and Boundary West zones, with the fourth targeting the Tom and Jason zones.
“After a delayed start-up mainly due to a late spring, drilling has begun,” Fireweed Metals CEO Brandon Macdonald said in a statement.
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“Even with the late start, we anticipate drilling over 7,000 metres this summer to make it the largest drill program Fireweed has ever carried out at the project,” Macdonald added.
Fireweed noted that the Boundary zones are open in every direction, and the 2022 program has been designed to test step-outs around the peripheries of Boundary and Boundary West, in addition to testing a potential connection between the two zones.
It added that the step-outs will include testing potential down-dip continuation of the recently discovered high-grade stratiform mineralization at Boundary West, and testing for additional massive sulphide mineralization in the near-surface.
Drilling at the Tom West, Tom North, Jason, and Jason South subzones, meanwhile, will target select extensions and other parts of these four large zinc-lead-silver deposits, with the potential to increase zinc, lead, and silver grades in these areas by drilling modern larger diameter holes, according to the company.
As well, Fireweed Metals reported that by the end of the 2022 campaign, it will have four seasons of additional drill data to inform new mineral resources for the project, including an inaugural resource for the Boundary, Boundary West, End Zone, and Tom North zones, and an updated resource for Tom West, Tom East, Tom Southeast, Jason and Jason South subzones.
Fireweeds Metals is a mineral exploration company on the leading edge of critical minerals project development with three projects located in northern Canada.
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