Nevada Zinc Acquires Historical Data for Mountain View Mine

Nevada Zinc Corp. (TSXV:NZN) announced that it’s acquired historical data from exploration and mining work completed at its recently acquired Mountain View mine. The data comes from two different sources, and some of it is over 70 years old.
Highlights include:

• Records indicate that there were 41 generally very shallow surface drill holes completed during 1944 and 1945 to test for near surface zinc mineralization in the vicinity of the MVM mine workings and extending to the west to the general vicinity of the up-dip projection of the Company’s Discovery Zone of mineralization.
• 33 holes are reported to have been drilled at a variety of angles, dips and and to various lengths. Virtually all of these holes intersected significant intervals of zinc mineralization.
• 28 holes were drilled on or in close proximity to the MVM property and stretch across the projected strike length of the main zone from the west boundary to the east boundary of the MVM property, a distance of 180 metres.
• None of these diamond drill holes are reported to have tested the main zones of zinc mineralization more than 250 feet below surface and most of the holes intersected the mineralization at depths of less than 100 feet.

Bruce Durham, president and CEO of Nevada Zinc, commented:

[I]t always increases our understanding of a project when we can indirectly have the assistance of the previous operators. There are details in historic maps and reports that are of great assistance in the planning of our future exploration programs. In this case we have old drill results, maps of underground workings, geological maps of some underground workings as well as old smelter settlement records for ore shipments, all of which will be very helpful in moving our Lone Mountain project forward.

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