VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 18, 2018 -- Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to provide an update on the status of the Preliminary Economic Assessment work on the Macmillan Pass Zinc Project, and the appointment of Tim Oliver, PE, P.Eng., as the Company’s Oversight Engineer for the PEA work and report. Preliminary Economic Assessment Status With publication last week of the updated Mineral Resource for the Macmillan [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 10, 2018 -- Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to announce new combined mineral resource estimates in accordance with NI43-101 for the Tom and Jason zones on the Macmillan Pass Project . The new Base Case updated resource is reported in Table 1. Table 1: Base Case Mineral Resource Estimate Category Tonnes ZnEq % Zn % Pb % Ag g/t B lbs Zn B lbs Pb MOz Ag Indicated 11.21 9.61 6.59 2.48 21.33 [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 27, 2017 -- Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to provide a year-end review of its exceptional 2017 exploration results in its first year of operations after an over-subscribed IPO last May. 3D MODEL Highlights Drilling in 2017 confirmed and expanded on historic drill results in the large Tom and Jason zinc-lead-silver deposits on the Macmillan Pass Project . A number of holes intersected [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 05, 2017 -- Fireweed Zinc Ltd. is pleased to announce the final and best results from its 2017 verification and step out drill program on the Macmillan Pass Project in Yukon, Canada. Tom Jason Deposits Area Tom Deposit Area Photos accompanying this announcement are available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/f802a527-8c3a-4f45-b5ba-e6338f6bc511 [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 24, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fireweed Zinc Ltd. (“Fireweed” or the “Company”) (TSXV: FWZ) is pleased to announce additional drill results from its 2017 verification and step out drill program on the Macmillan Pass Project in Yukon, Canada. These results are the second set of drill assays from the Jason Main Zone which is a wide zone of zinc-dominant mineralization [...]
Fireweed is pleased to announce additional drill results from its 2017 verification and step out drill program on the Macmillan Pass Project in Yukon. These results are the first drill holes from the Jason Main Zone which is a wide zone of zinc-dominant mineralization. Additional drilling has been completed and results are pending from both the Tom and Jason areas. Results from the first four drill holes on the Jason Main [...]
Fireweed Zinc is pleased to provide an update on its exploration work at the Macmillan Pass Zinc Project in Yukon. A program of airborne geophysics has begun on the Macmillan Pass Project. The purpose of the geophysics program is to rapidly cover the entire area of the Tom and Jason claims as well as the southern portion of the adjacent MAC claims with the objectives of helping to map critical subsurface geology and [...]
Fireweed Zinc is pleased to announce the first drill results from its 2017 verification and step out drill program on the Macmillan Pass Project in Yukon. Hole TS17-03 intersected 10.20% Zinc, 6.28% Lead and 87.7 g/t Silver over 24.4 m (TW) including 19.20% Zinc, 13.95% Lead and 379.8 g/t Silver over 3.6 m. These exceptional intersections confirm the very high grades in the near surface portion of the Tom West Zone
Fireweed Zinc is pleased to announce that it has signed an Option and Exploration Agreement with Newmont Canada Holdings, a subsidiary of Newmont Mining, on Newmont’s extensive MAC claims which cover the northwest extension of Fireweed’s Macmillan Pass Project in Yukon. MAC claims cover 16,780 hectares in 820 mineral claims which quadruples the area of Fireweed’s Macmillan Pass Project.
Fireweed Zinc is pleased to announce that work has begun on the Macmillan Pass Project and the Company has launched its new website at FireweedZinc.com. Work has begun on the Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project. Plans are to complete a minimum $1.2 million exploration program on the project in 2017 with the aim of bringing the historical resources on both the Tom and Jason zinc-lead-silver deposits to current [...]
Fireweed Zinc is pleased to announce the appointment of George Gorzynski as Executive Vice President of the Company and the formation of several committees of the Board of Directors. George Gorzynski, a Director and Co-Founder of Fireweed, has been appointed as Executive Vice President of the Company. Mr. Gorzynski is a geological engineer with 35 years’ experience in exploration and mining company management, with strong [...]
Fireweed Zinc is pleased to announce that it will begin trading on the TSX Venture Exchange today at the open under the ticker “FWZ” following the successful closing of its IPO on May 29, 2017. The Company is a new public mineral exploration company with an option to acquire a major advanced zinc-lead project in Yukon Territory from Hudbay Minerals.