Nicola Mining Announces Results of Phase Two Soil Samples at Treasure Mountain and Completion of the 2020 Exploration Program
Nicola Mining Announces Results of Phase
Two Soil Samples at Treasure Mountain and
Completion of the 2020 Exploration Program
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 22, 2020) - Nicola Mining Inc. (
TSXV: NIM
)
(
FSE: HLI
), (the "
Company
" or "
Nicola
") is pleased to announce that it has received assay results from
167 soil samples collected during Phase Two of the 2020 Program
[1]
at its wholly owned Treasure
Mountain Property, a fully-permitted high grade silver mine located approximately 90 minutes to its
Craigmont Mill.
The soil samples were consistently collected from the B-horizon.
The Second Phase of
the Program ("
Phase Two
") extended the 2019 and 2020 soil grid eastward along the northern slope of
Treasure Mountain.
These results conclude the 2020 Program, which was successful in identifying a semi-continuous ~2km
long northeast trending silver soil anomaly (Map 1).
Map 1
: Treasure Mountain Property silver assays from 2019 and 2020 soil sampling programs. Results
presented in this release are from the Phase Two soils program, denoted by the black box.
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Highlights of the assay results include the following:
From a total of 167 samples:
Six were anomalous in silver ranging from 1000- 3670 ppb
2
.
Three samples were anomalous in zinc with a maximum value of 308 ppm
2
.
One sample was anomalous in lead with a maximum value of 216.5 ppm
[2]
.
The anomalous silver values in soils are co-incidental with outcrop of exposed sphalerite (ZnS)-galena
(PbS) vein material that was tested with a portable drill during Phase One Program (Map 2). The results
of this portable drilling confirmed that silver mineralization is associated with these galena and sphalerite
bearing veins exposed at surface.
The silver, lead and zinc soil anomalies are spatially associated with one another, suggesting little
dispersion. The source of this soil anomaly is interpreted to be at shallow depth along this trend. Further
work is required to prove that the vein is continuous along this anomalous soil trend. The weakening of
the soil anomaly toward the east of the soil grid suggests that these mineralized veins may not occur at
surface to the east.
Map 2
: Interpreted 2019 - 2020 Phase One soils with anomalous Ag (red), Pb (blue) and Zn (green).
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The Company plans to include the area of anomalous silver, lead and zinc into a multi-year exploration
permit and will work toward further testing of this soil anomaly.
Technical information
Nicola Mining applies a thorough quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) program at the Project,
which is compliant with industry best practices. Trained personnel collected and logged soil samples
according to soil horizon, soil type and characteristics (Figure 1). The soil sample, which aims to be
collected from a developed B horizon, is then placed in a labelled sample kraft bag along with its sample
tag. Of the 167 soil samples collected 162 were B-horizon and 5 were transitional B/C horizon samples.
Suitable certified reference material is inserted into sample batches, which are submitted to the MSA
Laboratory (ISO 17025 Certified) in Langley, British Columbia. Soils are dried and screened through a -
80 mesh. Of the total samples, 166 samples had sufficient material for a 20g Aqua Regia digestion
(IMS-117) and one sample had insufficient material, requiring a 0.5g digestion (IMS-116). All digestions
were finished with an ICP-MS 39-element analysis. All results included in this release have passed the
QA/QC procedures. There are no known factors that could materially affect the reliability of data
collected and verified.
Figure 1
: An example of the soil profile encountered at Treasure Mountain.
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Qualified Person
Kevin Wells, P.Geo, a consulting geologist to the Company, is the independent qualified person as
defined by National Instrument 43-101 -
Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects
for the technical
disclosure contained in this news release.
About Nicola Mining
Nicola Mining Inc. is a junior mining company listed on the TSX Venture and Frankfurt Exchanges that
maintains a 100% owned mill and tailings facility, located near Merritt, British Columbia. It has already
signed four mill profit share agreements with high grade gold producers. The fully-permitted mill can
process both gold and silver mill feed via gravity and flotation processes. The Company also owns 100%
of the New Craigmont Project, a high-grade copper property, and an active gravel pit that is located
adjacent to its milling operations.
About Treasure Mountain Property
Nicola Mining Inc. owns 100% of the Treasure Mountain Property, consisting of 29 mineral tenures
covering 2178 hectares (ha) and a mining lease covering 335 ha.
The Company continues to maintain the option of reopening Level 1 in order to extract silver mill feed
from Stope 2 and continues to monitor silver prices prior to reconsidering reopening the mine. The
Property also has 3 highly prospective targets:
1
.
Recent soil sampled of the "MB Zone" extended the anomalous soils toward vein outcrop. This is
located 1.5km from the underground mine workings on the undrilled Northern slope of the mountain
2
.
JK Vein/Eastern Zone located approximately 1.0 km east of the underground mine workings.
3
.
Jensen Portal located approximately 100 m west of the Level 3 Portal and previously mined in the
1920's.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
"
Peter Espig
"
Peter Espig
CEO & Director
For additional information
Contact:
Peter Espig
Phone: (778) 385-1213
Email:
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
release.
[1]
Commencing of the 2020 Program was announced in a news release on July 21, 2020.
https://nicolamining.com/nicola-mining-commences-2020-exploration-at-treasure-mountain/
[2]
Anomalous levels were considered to be assays from soils collected with greater or equal to 1000
ppb silver, 150 ppm zinc and 100 ppm lead.
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