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Prismo Metals Inc. (CSE: PRIZ) (the "Company" or "Prismo") announces receipt of an extension to the environmental permit for its Palos Verdes Project in southern Sinaloa State from SEMARNAT, the Mexican federal environmental permitting agency. Prismo has also successfully negotiated general terms to extend its surface access agreement. Extension of the environmental permit and surface right agreements allows completion of a minimum 500-meter drill program at Palos Verdes without time pressures.
"Receiving the permit extension is welcome evidence that the permitting process is fully functional despite earlier slow-downs stemming from the Covid-19 crisis," said Dr. Craig Gibson, Prismo Metals President and CEO. "The combined extensions will let our drilling program follow the geology, not the clock as we seek to follow the high-grade mineralization encountered earlier into untested ground at depth."
The Palos Verdes drilling program will consist of about five holes, with the longest hole planned at 150-175m, designed to test the vein on strike and below the high-grade intercepts from a previous drill program carried out in May 2018. The best intercept from that program was 8.42 g/t Au and 2,336 g/t Ag, over an estimated 0.8m true width (see Prismo press release of September 30, 2020). The grades are similar to those reported by Vizsla Resources Corp. from veins further west in the same district. The drill program is planned to take place in November, with results probably available in January 2021.
About Prismo
Prismo is engaged in mineral property acquisitions and exploration in Mexico. The Company entered into an option agreement with Prospeccion Y Desarrollo Minero Del Norte, S.A. de C.V. (ProDeMin), effective May 7, 2019, pursuant to which it was granted the option to acquire a 75% interest in the Palos Verdes Property, which constitutes the material property of the Company. Prismo's Palos Verdes Project lies in southern Sinaloa State in northwestern Mexico, approximately 65 kilometers NE of Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Palos Verdes lies in the historic Panuco-Copala silver-gold district where Vizsla Resources Corp. have reported considerable success recently.
The Panuco-Copala district is characterized by a swarm of north to northwesterly oriented veins that stretch laterally for 15 km along a northeast-southwest trend. Northeasterly-trending veins that link and/or cross the northwesterly veins are locally well developed within the district. The eastern part of the district is topographically much higher than the western zone where veins are prominently exposed. Vein outcrops are subtle in the eastern zone, suggesting they are exposed at a much higher level and have not lost their uppermost high-grade zones to erosion.
The Palos Verdes concession (claim) covers 700 meters of strike length of the Palos Verdes vein, a member of the northeasterly trending vein family located in the eastern part of the district outside of the area of modern exploration. Geologic mapping indicates that a northwesterly striking structure intersects the Palos Verdes vein in the center of the concession. Drilling conducted in 2018 on the Palos Verdes Vein by ProDeMin was relatively shallow (
For more information, please refer to the Company's prospectus dated September 8, 2020 available on SEDAR (www.sedar.com).
Qualified Person
Dr. Craig Gibson, Ph.D., the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, a Qualified Person under NI 43- 101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, has prepared and approved the technical content of this release.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Craig Gibson
Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
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Investor Relations
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