Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to provide a year-end review of its 2019 results and work program on the large Macmillan Pass Zinc Project in Yukon, Canada. Highlights for 2019 Drilling at Boundary Zone intersected wide zones of potential open pit mineralization. Highlights are 100 metres of 7.94% zinc from surface including 6.4 metres of 42.88% zinc within 230 metres of 4.14% zinc. Initial ore sorting test results indicate [...]
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to announce receipt of a Class 4 Land Use Permit for the Macmillan Pass Zinc Project in Yukon, Canada. The Class 4 permit applies to the parts of the property covering the main deposits at Tom, Jason and End Zones. It replaces a Class 3 permit and allows a larger and more ambitious work program with up to a 150-person camp, larger and more extensive exploration programs, and sets out [...]
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to announce the last results from the 2019 drilling at the Macmillan Pass Project in Yukon, Canada. These results are from the Boundary Zone located 15 road kilometres west of the Jason Deposit . Highlights This final 2019 drill hole at the Boundary Zone intersected 4.14% Zinc over a true width of 230 metres with a near surface higher grade section of 7.94% Zinc over a true width of 100 [...]
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to announce results from the first 2019 drill hole on the Boundary Zone at the Macmillan Pass Project in Yukon, Canada. Boundary Zone is located 15 road kilometres west of the Jason Deposit . Highlights This first 2019 drill hole at the Boundary Zone intersected 3.44% Zinc over a true width of 250 metres with high grade subintervals including 16.35% Zinc over a drill intersection of 23.31 [...]
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to announce assays from additional drill holes at the Macmillan Pass Project in Yukon, Canada. Highlights Tom North hole TS19‑008 intersected 5.38% Zinc and 0.64% Lead over a true width of 10.9 metres improving on historic grades as a result of superior core recovery over the 1952 hole it twinned, again indicating that Tom North has potential to be mined in an open‑pit and improve current PEA [...]
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to announce assays from the first five drill holes in the Tom North open pit target and a step out hole at Tom West at the Macmillan Pass Project in Yukon, Canada. Drilling has now finished on the property and additional assays from multiple zones are pending. Highlights Tom North hole TS19-002 intersected 6.36% Zinc and 0.65% Lead over 9.00 metres and TS19‑001 intersected 6.19% Zinc and [...]
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to announce positive results from an initial preconcentration test using state-of-the-art X-ray Fluorescence ore sorting technology on samples from the Boundary Zone at the Macmillan Pass Zinc Project, Yukon, Canada. Boundary Zone is a discrete bulk-tonnage, advanced exploration target located 15 kilometres northwest of the Jason zinc-lead-silver deposit. The principal results of the XRF test [...]
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to provide an update on its exploration program at the Macmillan Pass Zinc Project in Yukon, Canada. Highlights 12 core drill holes completed; seven at the Tom North target, one at the Tom West Zone, one at the Tom East Zone, one at Target R and two at the Jason North target. Drilling now started at Target A. Gravity geophysics crews have completed surveying about half of Fertile Corridor [...]
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to provide an update on its exploration program at the Macmillan Pass Zinc Project in Yukon, Canada. Highlights Seven core drill holes completed; five at the Tom North target, one at the Tom West Zone, and one at the Tom East Zone Seventeen reverse circulation holes completed on six targets Gravity geophysics crew surveying along Fertile Corridor Geological mapping, sampling, and prospecting [...]
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to announce that drilling and field work for the 2019 summer campaign has now started on the Macmillan Pass Zinc Project in Yukon, Canada. Highlights Core drilling has begun on the first target at Tom North Reverse circulation drilling has begun on Target R The gravity surveying crew has arrived to begin work in the Fertile Corridor Geological mapping, sampling, and prospecting are underway [...]
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to announce that the first field crews have been mobilized to the Macmillan Pass Zinc Project in Yukon, Canada. The first tasks will be construction of drill sites on the first target area at Tom North and general preparation of the camp, facilities and equipment for the summer exploration program. Drilling and other field work are expected to begin within seven days. Highlights for the 2019 [...]
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to announce plans for its 2019 exploration program on the Macmillan Pass Zinc Project in Yukon, Canada. The Company anticipates that the drilling campaign will start in June and will include both greenfield targets and step-out drill targets. Highlights 2019 plans for at least 2000 m core drilling and 1000 m of RC drilling Drilling of prospective greenfield targets to test for new deposits on [...]