ROUYN-NORANDA, QUÉBEC–(Marketwired – June 6, 2016) – Explor Resources Inc. (“Explor” or “the Corporation”) (TSX VENTURE:EXS)(OTCQX:EXSFF)(FRANKFURT:E1H1)(BERLIN:E1H1) is pleased to announce the acquisition of 1 patented claim totalling 64.7 hectares situated in the Porcupine Mining division, District of Cochrane, Carnegie Township, Ontario. This additional claim is northwest of the Glencore Kidd Creek Mine.
Explor Resources Inc. will pay a total of $6,000 and issue 200,000 common shares for an Option to acquire a 100% interest in the additional Kidd Township patented claim. The seller has retained a 2.0% NSR in the property. This acquisition is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
The Corporation’s Kidd Township Group of Properties are located to the North, South, West and East of the Glencore Kidd Creek Mine, located approximately 20 km north of Timmins, Ontario. This additional claim is north to the Kidd Township property, and approximately one kilometer Northwest of the Glencore Kidd Creek Mine site. This acquisition increases Explor’s land position in the area to 2,805.20 hectares. The most obvious topographical feature in the area is the Glencore Kidd Creek open pit mine, located in the central portion of Explor’s Kidd Township group of Properties.
The property is located in a Greenstone Belt composed mainly of sequences of Meta-Volcanic rocks cut by faults and deformation zones that lie in a NW-SE direction. There are many suites of Mafic Volcanic rocks as well. Excellent access to the property is provided by Hwy 655.
Exploration drilling completed by Explor to date has revealed a Major Fault Structure running to the west of the Glencore Kidd Creek Mine in a NW-SE direction. A thorough review of all existing geophysical data appears to support these findings. Drilling by Falconbridge in 1998 to the southwest of the Glencore Kidd Creek Mine (Hole # K26-01) returned 4.7m in which 4 of the 5 samples returned Zinc values from 4200 – 8900 ppm and Copper values that ranged from 700 – 2280 ppm. The Magnetic Anomaly associated with these results appears to continue onto Explor’s property holdings. A series of untested AEM (Airborne Electromagnetic) conductors detected on the Kidd Township Property to the west, south and southeast of the existing Kidd Creek Mine clearly warrant further investigation. Explor Resources Inc. is currently conducting an exploration and drill program on the Kidd Township property. Results are pending.
The newly acquired claim is approximately 1 km to the Northwest of the Glencore Kidd Creek Mine Site. Clearly, the newly acquired claim appears to be on the same Syn-volcanic Collapsed Structure as the Glencore Kidd Creek Mine and the Glencore Chance Deposit. The Glencore Kidd Creek Mine located to the South-east of the newly acquired property has produced 152,600,000 tonnes of Base Metal Ore (Cu-Zn-Pb-Ag) since it began production in 1966.
This acquisition is being made in support of Explor’s belief in the “Cluster Effect of VMS (Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide) Deposits”. Well known examples of the cluster effect of VMS Deposits are the Bathurst Mining Camp where 47 deposits have been found to date, including the Brunswick No.12 and the Brunswick No.6 Mines where more than 130,000,000 tonnes of Base Metal Ore has been produced to date; and the Noranda Mining Camp where 18 deposits have been found to date, with 68,100,000 tons of Base Metal Production from the Horne Mine and Quemont Deposits alone. The presence of Mafic and Felsic rocks on the Kidd Township Properties with anomalous zinc and copper supports the opinion that additional VMS Deposits exist in the immediate vicinity of the Glencore Kidd Creek Mine.
Chris Dupont P.Eng is the qualified person responsible for the information contained in this release.
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About Explor Resources Inc.
Explor Resources Inc. is a Canadian-based natural resources company with mineral holdings in Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick. Explor is currently focused on exploration in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. The belt is found in both provinces of Ontario and Québec with approximately 33% in Ontario and 67% in Québec. The Belt has produced in excess of 180,000,000 ounces of gold and 450,000,000 tonnes of cu-zn ore over the last 100 years. The Corporation was continued under the laws of Alberta in 1986 and has had its main office in Québec since 2006.
Explor Resources Flagship project is the Timmins Porcupine West (TPW) Project located in the Porcupine mining camp, in the Province of Ontario. Teck Resources Ltd. is currently conducting an exploration program as part of an earn-in on the TPW property. The TPW mineral resource (Press Release dated August 27, 2013) includes the following:
| Open Pit Mineral Resources at a 0.30 g/t Au cut-off grade are as follows: | ||
| Indicated: 213,000 oz (4,283,000 tonnes at 1.55 g/t Au) | ||
| Inferred: 77,000 oz (1,140,000 tonnes at 2.09 g/t Au) | ||
| Underground Mineral Resources at a 1.70 g/t Au cut-off grade are as follows: | ||
| Indicated: 396,000 oz (4,420,000 tonnes at 2.79 g/t Au) | ||
| Inferred: 393,000 oz (5,185,000 tonnes at 2.36 g/t Au) | ||
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