Callinex Announces Expansion of Rainbow Deposit to Surface and at Depth with Multiple Copper-Gold-Zinc Assays
Callinex Announces Expansion of Rainbow Deposit to Surface and at Depth
with Multiple Copper-Gold-Zinc Assays
Highlights:
Rainbow open at depth with deepest intercept at Rainbow to date, a
225m
step-out from previous deepest hole (PBM-111);
Subsequent borehole EM survey supports the extension of Rainbow at depth; and
Multiple near surface copper-gold-zinc assays at the newly discovered Red Zone.
VANCOUVER, BC
,
Jan. 31, 2022
/CNW/ -
Callinex Mines Inc.
(the "Company" or "Callinex") (TSXV: CNX) (OTCQX: CLLXF) is pleased to announce results from
an additional 13 drill holes encompassing
5,490m
of drilling from the 2021 exploration campaign to expand the high-grade copper, gold, silver and zinc Rainbow
Deposit (the "Rainbow"). Assay results from
7,540m
of drilling from 17 drill holes completed in Q4 2021 are still pending. The Rainbow is located at the 100%
owned Pine Bay Project within a mineral lease, less than
250m
from a high-voltage hydroelectric power-line and
550m
from a historic shaft with direct road
access to processing facilities in
Flin Flon
, Manitoba (
District Overview Map
).
The interpreted strike and plunging direction has been widened and opened up significantly at depth with the intersections of the Yellow Zone in drill holes PBM-
146a, PBM-146-W and PBM-158. Drill hole PBM-158, the deepest and most northern hole intersected to date at Rainbow, returned
5.0m
of 1.56% copper
equivalent ("CuEq") (consisting of 1.45% copper ("Cu"), 0.07 g/t gold ("Au"), 1.86 g/t silver ("Ag") and 0.11% zinc ("Zn")). PBM-158 is located
225m
along strike
to the North of discovery hole PBM-111, the most southerly hole to intersect the Rainbow at depth (
Rainbow Deposit Long Section
).
Jim Pickell
, member of Callinex's technical team, stated, "Given the intense geochemical alteration patterns and favourable geology at the deepest explored levels
of the Rainbow VMS deposit, it is exciting that a newly defined strong borehole (PBM-158) geophysical anomaly is located immediately below those high-grade
massive sulphides."
Pine Bay Project Rainbow Deposit Long Section January 2022 (CNW Group/Callinex Mines Inc.)
A subsequent borehole electromagnetic ("BPEM") survey completed and modeled from PBM-158 indicates significant potential for Rainbow to continue at depth.
This is also supported by intense sericite and chlorite alteration that is strongest in the deepest holes drilled into the deposit (
Rainbow Alteration Cross Section
).
The Yellow Zone starts up at
600m
below surface and has a strike of
225m
based on this most recent intersection. Typically Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide
("VMS") lenses discovered in the Flin Flon Greenstone belt have a depth extent that's 5-8 times the strike.
Alan Vowles
, member of Callinex's technical team, added, "I am quite encouraged by the off-hole anomaly in PBM-158 because the Tau indicates it is even a little
more conductive than the original off-hole target in PBM-033 that we drilled and discovered the Rainbow. Additionally, because the off-hole target in PBM-158 is
below the hole it indicates strong potential that Rainbow continues at depth".
The BPEM anomaly modeled from PBM-158 measures
190m
by
400m
. The Time Constant or Tau, a measure of conductance, of the off-hole anomaly in PBM-
158 is 27.07 milliseconds (ms). By comparison, the Tau of the anomaly in PBM-033, which vectored to the discovery of Rainbow, was 22.87 ms.
Rainbow Deposit Alteration Indices (CNW Group/Callinex Mines Inc.)
Six drill holes announced have intersected a newly discovered copper-gold-zinc rich Red Zone that remains open towards surface and has been intersected to a
depth of
375m
below surface. The Red Zone is highlighted by drill hole PBM-145 which returned
12.0m
of 3.43% CuEq (consisting of 0.57% Cu, 0.90 g/t Au,
20.27 g/t Ag and 5.25% Zn). There are still four drill holes that are pending from the assay laboratory above the
200m
level.
JJ O'Donnell, Callinex Exploration Manager, stated, "We are pleased to have delineated a new zone as we continue to test the Rainbow horizon to surface. The
recent drilling in the Red Zone has produced the highest returned assays for gold and zinc (PBM-145
266m
-
267m
@ 4.29 g/t Au, PBM-145
235m
-
236m
@ 16.8%
Zn) to date at the Rainbow Deposit. The new Red Zone illustrates the Rainbow Deposit is a typical VMS displaying stacking of lenses, and metal zonation from
copper rich lenses to more zinc rich portions."
Delineation drilling of Rainbow continues to return high-grade copper. PBM-138-W1 intersected the Orange Zone and returned
31.0m
of 3.53% CuEq comprising
3.04% Cu, 0.26 g/t Au, 3.55 g/t Ag and 0.74% Zn. PBM-138-W1 is located
15m
above PBM-138 which intersected
37m
of 6% copper, 0.35 g/t gold, 6.13 g/t
silver, 0.09% zinc or 6.33% CuEq and
50m
below PBM-118 which returned
5.55m
of 7.77% CuEq (
See News Release Dated
September 7, 2021
and
News Release Dated
April 26, 2021
)
The Company plans to delineate Rainbow within the first 1km of surface and test Rainbow at depth. In anticipation of publishing a maiden resource estimate for
the deposits at the Pine Bay Project, drilling will also be completed on the historic Pine Bay Deposit located
650m
away. Since the Company discovered the
Rainbow Deposit in
August 2020
, the Company has drilled 71 holes (including 15 wedges) for a total of
39,950m
into the deposit area.
Callinex will soon outline high-priority targets located within the interpreted growth fault corridor which hosts Rainbow and five other deposits, three of which have
seen some level of historic production. Additionally the Company will outline targets from the regional Induced Polarization survey that covers 5.5 km of the trend
that hosts the Rainbow and Sourdough deposit to the south.
The Company has also received a majority of the assays from the limited drilling to follow-up on silver discovered near surface at the Nash Creek Project located
in the Bathurst Mining District, NB during the 2019/2020 exploration campaign. None of the assay results received contain appreciable amounts of silver, a focus
of the campaign. A 2018 PEA on the Company's zinc rich
Bathurst
projects outlined a mine plan that generates a strong economic return with a post-tax IRR of
36.6% and NPV8% of
$239 million
post-tax at current zinc/lead prices.
Table 1: Pine Bay Drill Results to date
Drill Hole
Zone
From
(m)
To
(m)
Interval (m)
True Width
(m)
Cu
%
Au g/t
Ag g/t
Zn
%
Sg
CuEq
%
PBM-128-W1
Orange
589.6
596.6
7.60
6.87
6.28
0.60
13.03
0.39
3.93
6.95
PBM-134
Orange
525.0
531.4
6.40
5.85
1.07
0.38
8.52
2.34
3.56
2.29
PBM-138-W1
Orange
656.0
687.0
31.00
28.54
3.04
0.26
3.55
0.74
3.76
3.53
PBM-145
Orange
194.0
205.0
11.00
5.50
0.15
0.26
4.40
1.29
3.15
0.86
PBM-145a
Red
232.0
244.0
12.00
6.40
0.57
0.98
20.27
5.25
3.60
3.43
PBM-145b
Red
258.0
267.0
9.00
4.90
0.86
1.28
15.02
1.72
3.27
2.52
PBM-148
Red
Nil
PBM-146-W1
Yellow
770.55
774.23
3.68
2.22
2.79
0.45
6.46
0.41
3.67
3.31
PBM-146a
Yellow
818.0
825.0
7.00
4.40
1.34
0.19
3.15
0.50
3.16
1.68
PBM-149a
Red
214.0
219.0
5.00
2.30
0.04
0.25
3.60
2.07
3.07
1.03
PBM-149b
Red
305.0
315.0
10.00
4.50
0.55
0.85
3.85
0.37
3.74
1.31
PBM-150a
Red
233.0
237.0
4.00
2.40
1.08
0.05
2.14
0.39
3.15
1.29
PBM-150b
Red
257.0
260.0
3.00
1.68
0.49
0.61
20.13
2.17
3.07
1.90
PBM-151
Red
238.0
244.0
6.00
2.44
0.01
0.13
12.43
1.78
2.98
0.89
PBM-152
Red
229.0
233.0
4.00
2.35
0.03
0.13
2.88
1.21
2.96
0.60
PBM-153
Red
194.0
198.0
4.00
2.35
0.04
0.21
7.24
3.14
3.08
1.45
PBM-154
Red
Nil
PBM-158
Yellow
928.0
933.0
5.00
2.94
1.45
0.07
1.86
0.11
2.90
1.56
Notes:
1.
BM-128-W1 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N 331378m East and 6071255m North and 295.0m above sea level, and started at 290Az, -83 degree dip with the
top of wedge set at depth 163.5m. PBM-134 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331378m East and 6071255m North and 295.0m above sea level, and started at
294Az, -65 degree dip. PBM-138-W1 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331378m East and 6071255m North and 295.0m above sea level, and started at 290Az,
-80 degree dip with the top of wedge set at depth 392.5m. PBM-145 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331063m East and 6071424m North and 293.0m above
sea level, and started at 320Az, -70 degree dip. PBM-146a collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331433m East and 6071327m North and 294.0m above sea level,
and started at 300Az, -80 degree dip. PBM-146-W1 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 33143m East and 6071327m North and 294.0m above sea level, and
started at 300Az, -80 degree dip with the top of wedge set at depth 488.5m. PBM-158 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331450m East and 6071362m North
and 298.0m above sea level, and started at 310Az, -85 degree dip. PBM-148 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331063m East and 6071424m North and 293.0m
above sea level, and started at 326Az, -45 degree dip. PBM-149 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331063m East and 6071424m North and 293.0m above sea
level, and started at 325Az, -75 degree dip. PBM-150 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331063m East and 6071424m North and 293.0m above sea level, and
started at 284Az, -70 degree dip. PBM-151 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331063m East and 6071424m North and 293.0m above sea level, and started at
285Az, -77 degree dip. PBM-152 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331063m East and 6071424m North and 293.0m above sea level, and started at 301Az, -65
degree dip. PBM-153 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331063m East and 6071424m North and 293.0m above sea level, and started at 293Az, -75 degree dip.
PBM-154 collar is located at the following Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) within UTM Zone 14N: 331110m East and 6071474m North and 295.0m above sea level, and started at 299Az, -75 degree dip.
2.
The size of the drill core is NQ.
3.
True Width calculations assumed the Rainbow Horizon to strike 032 degrees azimuth, with a 80 degree easterly dip.
4.
All CuEq (copper equivalent) assay results in this news release use the following pricing: US$3.00 copper per pound ($6,720/tonne), US$1.15 zinc per pound, US$1,450/troy ounce gold ($46.62/gram), US$16.50/toy ounce silver ($0.53/gram), calculation CuEQ= Cu%+(Zn% x zinc
price per pound / copper price per pound)+(Au g/t x Au price per gram / copper price per tonne) x100 + (Ag g/t x Ag price per gram / copper price per tonne) x 100. 100% metal recoveries used, ie. no process recoveries or smelter payables were included in the calculation.
J.J. O'Donnell, P.Geo, a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information in this news release.
Figure 1: Flin Flon Mining District Region Overview
Figure 2: Pine Bay Long Section Looking West with 2021 Drilling
Figure 3: Rainbow Deposit Alteration Cross Section
QA / QC Protocols
Individual samples were labeled, placed in plastic sample bags, and sealed. Groups of samples were then placed in security sealed bags and shipped directly to
SGS lab in
Vancouver, BC
for analysis. Samples were weighed then crushed to 75% passing 2mm and pulverized to 85% passing 75 microns in order to produce
a 250g pulverized split. 35 elements including copper, zinc, lead and silver assays were determined by Aqua Regia digestion with a combination of ICP-MS and
ICP-AES finish, with over limits rerun using an ore grade analysis (two acid digest ICP-AES). Gold was analyzed by fire assay. Specific gravity (sg) measured for
each sample using the pycnometer and water and air method. QA/QC included the insertion and continual monitoring of numerous standards, blanks, and
duplicates
About Callinex Mines Inc.
Callinex Mines Inc.
(TSXV:
CNX
) (OTCQX
: CLLXF)
is advancing its portfolio of base and precious metals rich deposits located in established Canadian
mining jurisdictions. The focus of the portfolio is highlighted by the rapidly expanding Rainbow Discovery at its rich VMS Pine Bay Project located near existing
infrastructure in the Flin Flon Mining District. The second asset in the portfolio is the Nash Creek Project located in the VMS rich Bathurst Mining District of
New
Brunswick
. A 2018 PEA generates a strong economic return with a pre-tax IRR of 34.1% (25.2% post-tax) and NPV8% of
$230 million
(
$128 million
post-tax) at
$1.25
Zinc. The third asset, 100% owned Point Leamington Deposit in
Newfoundland
, is located in one of the richest VMS and Gold Districts in
Canada
.
Callinex prepared a pit constrained Indicated Mineral Resource of 5.0 Mt grading 2.5 g/t AuEq for 402 koz AuEq (145.7 koz gold, 60.0 Mlb copper, 153.5 Mlb
zinc, 2.0 Moz silver, 1.5 Mlb lead), an pit constrained Inferred Mineral Resource of 13.7 Mt grading 2.24 g/t AuEq for 986.5 koz AuEq (354.8 koz gold, 110.2
Mlb copper, 527.3 Mlb zinc, 6.2 Moz silver, 7.0 Mlb lead) and an out-of-pit Inferred Mineral Resource of 1.7 Mt grading 3.06 g/t AuEq for 168.5 koz AuEq (65.4
koz gold, 13.3 Mlb copper, 102.9 Mlb zinc, 1.4
Moz Ag
, 2.6 Mlb lead).
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.
Some statements in this news release contain forward-looking information. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to future
expenditures. These statements address future events and conditions and, as such, involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which
may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or
implied by the statements. Such factors include, among others, the ability to complete the proposed drill program and the timing and amount of expenditures.
Except as required under applicable securities laws, Callinex does not assume the obligation to update any forward-looking statement
.
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