Midnight Sun Mining Drills 14.2 Metres Grading 5.71% Copper at Solwezi, Zambia

Midnight Sun Mining Corp. (TSXV:MMA) released results from its core drilling program that was recently completed on the Solwezi copper property in northwest Zambia. The program was undertaken during April and May of 2014 and consisted of 739 metres HQ core drilled in 12 holes, and targeted an area of the Solwezi property roughly 10 kilometres southwest of First Quantum Minerals’s (TSX:FM) Kansanshi mine, the largest copper mine in Africa. Overall, the drill program was designed to locate primary copper mineralization and to expand the area of high grade copper mineralization.

As quoted in the press release:

Highlights of significant, near surface copper mineralization include the following:

• 5.71% copper over 14.2 metres, including 9.58% copper over 7.2 metres in drill hole SLZ-DD-14-010;
• 5.08% copper over 8.0 metres in drill hole SLZ-DD-14-005; and
• 6.27% copper over 4.5 metres in drill hole SLZ-DD-14-001.

Note: The above reported lengths are intercept lengths and not estimated true widths

Midnight Sun CEO, Bob Sibthorpe, said:

These results continue to confirm the presence of high grade, near surface, oxide copper mineralization in this location. The Company is actively reviewing the information provided by these latest results to further delineate the geological model and design a follow up exploration program to expand the known mineralized areas and identify the source of this high grade copper.

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