Arizona drills 402 ft of 12.75% Zn, 7.15% Pb at Hermosa

Arizona Mining (TSX:AZ) has released the results of three exploration drill holes from its current program on the Taylor zinc-lead-silver sulphide deposit located on its 100-per-cent-owned Hermosa project in Santa Cruz county, Arizona. This brings the total number of drill holes reported in the 2016 to 2017 program to 62.
HDS-413 is an angled drill hole (-82 degrees) drilled to infill an area southwest of the previously reported resource area. HDS-413 intersected seven (7) distinct mineralized sulfide horizons which when added together have a total cumulative mineralized thickness of 716 feet (refer to Table I). Six (6) of the mineralized zones are in the Taylor Sulfide zone and one (1) intersected the Taylor Deeps Sulfide zone. Some of the best results in the hole included:

• 402 feet assaying 12.8% zinc, 7.2% lead and 2.3 ounces per ton (“opt”) silver;
• Including an 87 foot zone which assayed 31.7% zinc, 15.4% lead and 5.0 opt silver;
• Including a 15 foot zone which assayed 17.7% zinc, 18.2% lead and 12.6 opt silver;
• 203 feet assaying 4.4% zinc, 3.6% lead and 1.1 opt silver;
• Including a 21 foot zone which assayed 10.7% zinc, 8.9% lead and 2.6 opt silver;
• Including a 15 foot zone which assayed 14.5% zinc, 10.3% lead and 3.1 opt silver.

HDS-406 is an angled drill hole (-85 degrees) drilled to infill an area of the previously reported mineral resource. The drill hole encountered three (3) mineralized veins in the volcanics, four (4) mineralized horizons within the Taylor Sulfide zone and two (2) mineralized horizons in the Taylor Deeps Sulfide zone. When added together the Taylor Sulfide zone intervals have a cumulative thickness of 136.5 feet (refer to Table I). Most notable among the mineralized horizons includes:

• 12 feet assaying 7.5% zinc, 3.7% lead and 1.6 opt silver;
• 71 feet assaying 12.0% zinc, 9.4% lead and 3.0 opt silver.

HDS-407 is a vertical infill drill hole that intersected two (2) mineralized veins; eight (8) mineralized horizons in the Taylor Sulfide zone plus a significant zone of mineralization in the Taylor Deeps Sulfide zone. Most notable among the mineralized horizons is the mineralization in the Taylor Deeps zone which assayed:

• 55 feet assaying 10.1% zinc, 9.5% lead and 6.0 opt silver

For a full list of the vein, Taylor Sulfide and Taylor Deeps Sulfide mineralized intervals from these holes please refer to Table I.
CEO Jim Gowans commented: “These drill results continue to confirm the continuity of the Taylor Sulfide portion of the deposit and expand the footprint of the new Taylor Deeps zone.”

  Table I. ASSAY SUMMARIES FOR HDS-406, HDS-407 & HDS-413
Hole              From       To  Interval      From        To  Interval           Ag     Pb     Zn     Cu
                   (ft)     (ft)      (ft)       (m)       (m)       (m)       (oz/t)    (%)    (%)    (%)
HDS-406        1,379.5    1,382       2.5     420.5     421.2       0.8         7.50   0.39   0.70   0.45
HDS-406          1,488    1,500        12     453.5     457.2       3.7         1.64   3.68   7.53   0.06
HDS-406          1,723    1,728         5     525.1     526.7       1.5         2.87   2.80   5.03   0.28
HDS-406          1,901    1,905         4     579.4     580.6       1.2         6.07   0.49   1.40   0.17
HDS-406          1,970    2,011        41     600.4     612.9      12.5         0.81   1.45   3.52   0.06
HDS-406          2,398  2,410.5      12.5     730.9     734.7       3.8         1.46   4.39   3.11   0.03
HDS-406          2,508    2,579        71     764.4     786.0      21.6         2.98   9.42  12.02   0.11
HDS-406          3,371    3,408        37   1,027.4   1,038.7      11.3         1.03   2.92   3.11   0.25
HDS-406          3,532  3,535.5       3.5   1,076.5   1,077.6       1.1        20.24   2.72   1.47   1.13
HDS-407            572      587        15     174.3     178.9       4.6         1.65   1.50   4.94   0.02
HDS-407            912      972        60     278.0     296.3      18.3         1.03   1.22   2.24   0.01
Including          947      957        10     288.6     291.7       3.0         2.67   4.09  10.47   0.04
HDS-407          1,047    1,062        15     319.1     323.7       4.6         1.00   1.19   1.75   0.03
HDS-407          2,037    2,092        55     620.8     637.6      16.8         0.51   1.31   1.83   0.04
HDS-407          2,242  2,286.5      44.5     683.3     696.9      13.6         0.69   1.14   1.49   0.20
HDS-407          2,652    2,687        35     808.3     819.0      10.7         0.85   2.48   2.73   0.03
HDS-407        2,814.5    2,822       7.5     857.8     860.1       2.3         0.98   3.14   3.05   0.01
HDS-407          2,987    3,012        25     910.4     918.0       7.6         0.41   1.23   1.00   0.01
HDS-407        3,139.5    3,152      12.5     956.9     960.7       3.8         3.74   2.76   1.84   0.13
HDS-407        3,181.5  3,197.5        16     969.7     974.6       4.9         2.22   3.71   1.27   0.13
HDS-407          3,277    3,332        55     998.8   1,015.5      16.8         5.98   9.52  10.14   0.27
HDS-413          1,197    1,222        25     364.8     372.4       7.6         1.13   0.97   1.89   0.03
HDS-413          1,765    2,167       402     537.9     660.5     122.5         2.29   7.15  12.75   0.17
Including        2,007    2,094        87     611.7     638.2      26.5         5.00  15.44  31.65   0.28
HDS-413          2,277    2,325        48     694.0     708.6      14.6         7.40   7.47   8.23   0.40
Including        2,295    2,310        15     699.5     704.1       4.6        12.57  18.21  17.70   0.64
HDS-413          2,482    2,685       203     756.5     818.3      61.9         1.09   3.61   4.36   0.05
Including        2,487    2,496         9     758.0     760.7       2.7         6.75  22.50  30.33   0.57
Including        2,597    2,618        21     791.5     797.9       6.4         2.62   8.87  10.71   0.09
Including        2,647    2,662        15     806.8     811.3       4.6         3.05  10.34  14.46   0.06
HDS-413          2,753    2,772        19     839.1     844.9       5.8         0.87   2.70   1.67   0.01
HDS-413          3,202    3,211         9     975.9     978.7       2.7        17.62  11.45   8.27   0.25
HDS-413          3,352    3,362        10   1,021.6   1,024.7       3.0         3.72   2.36   3.07   0.23

Drill intersections with a combined zinc and lead grade of greater than 9% are bolded. Taylor Sulfide and Taylor Deeps Sulfide drill intervals are down-the-hole drill widths but are considered to be within +/- 5% of true width based on the dip of the mineralized stratigraphy at 22 degrees. The exception to this are the intervals noted as veins. It is not possible to determine the true width of the veins based on the drill density and no representation is made here regarding true width of the veins.
Qualified Person
The results of the Arizona Mining Inc. drilling have been reviewed, verified and compiled by Donald R. Taylor, MSc., PG, Chief Operating Officer for Arizona Mining Inc., a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101). Mr. Taylor has more than 25 years of mineral exploration and mining experience, and is a Registered Professional Geologist through the SME (registered member #4029597).
Assays and Quality Assurance/Quality Control
To ensure reliable sample results, the Company has a rigorous QA/QC program in place that monitors the chain-of-custody of samples and includes the insertion of blanks, duplicates, and certified reference standards at statistically derived intervals within each batch of samples. Core is photographed and split in half with one-half retained in a secured facility for verification purposes.
Sample preparation (crushing and pulverizing) has been performed at ALS Minerals Laboratories, an ISO/IEC accredited lab located in Tucson, Arizona. ALS Minerals Laboratories prepares a pulp of all samples and sends the pulps to their analytical laboratory in Vancouver, B.C. Canada for analysis. ALS analyzes the pulp sample by ICP following a 4-acid digestion (ME-ICP61 for 33 elements) including Cu (copper), Pb (lead), and Zn (zinc). All samples in which Cu (copper), Pb (lead), or Zn (zinc) are greater than 10,000 ppm are rerun using four acid digestion with an ICP – AES finish (Cu-OG62; Pb-OG62; and Zn-OG62) with the elements reported in percentage (%). Silver values are determined by ICP (ME-ICP61) with all samples with silver values greater than 100 ppm repeated using four acid digestion with an ICP-AES finish (Ag-OG62) calibrated for higher levels of silver contained. Any values over 1,500 ppm Ag trigger a fire assay with gravimetric finish analysis. Gold values are determined by a 30 gm fire assay with an ICP-AES finish (Au-ICP21).
About Arizona Mining
Arizona Mining Inc. is a Canadian mineral exploration and development company focused on the exploration and development of its 100%-owned Hermosa Project located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The Taylor Deposit, a zinc-lead-silver carbonate replacement deposit, has a resource of 31.1 million tons in the Indicated Mineral Resource category grading 10.9% zinc equivalent (“ZnEq”) and 82.7 million tons in the Inferred Mineral Resource category grading 11.1% ZnEq both utilizing a 4% ZnEq cutoff grade calculated in accordance with NI 43-101 guidelines (refer to the Company’s news release dated October 31, 2016). The Taylor Deposit remains open to the north, west and south over land controlled by the Company and will be aggressively drilled to test the limits of the resource. The Company’s other project on the Hermosa property is the Central Deposit, a silver-manganese manto oxide project.
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