Viscount Mining Provides Update on Silver Cliff Drill Program
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Viscount Mining Provides Update on Silver Cliff
Drill Program
Vancouver, British Columbia - (September 23, 2020) - Viscount Mining Corp. (TSX-V: VML)
(OTCQB: VLMGF) ("Viscount Mining") is pleased to announce it has hired Godbe Drilling for its
upcoming drill program at Silver Cliff, Colorado. Godbe Drilling was first engaged by Viscount for its
2016 drill campaign and is very familiar with Silver Cliff.
Viscount is in the final planning stages of preparing for a drill program at Silver Cliff, Colorado, where
we have an open pit resource which we expect to expand. Viscount will be continuing to drill with the
objective of adding to the ACS resource estimate of the Kate Silver Resource (KSR)/Kate deposit as well
as moving forward on the evaluation of resource potential on 3 other areas of historic deposits at Silver
Cliff.
The 2020 program will initially consist of ten core holes. The first four holes will investigate a higher grade
zone on the east side of the Kate Silver Resource (KSR). This zone is based on seven historic drill holes
and one 2016 hole, and is open in all directions. It trends NNE, and averages 765 g/t silver over 69 meters.
Hole 5 will test the Passiflora deposit to a depth of 175 meters. It twins a historic drill hole that had a 10.6
meter interval that assayed 4.8 g/t gold as well as significant silver. Only partial historic data is available
for this area. The remaining core holes are aimed at expanding the KSR to the west, north and east.
Additional holes will be sited based on Viscount’s results from previous drilling, and will produce a better
understanding of the accuracy of the historic data.
The Silver Cliff project consists of 96 contiguous patented and unpatented lode claims encompassing
approximately 900 hectares in the Hardscrabble Silver District, Custer County, south-central Colorado.
The project lies immediately north of the town of Silver Cliff and Westcliffe and is 50 kilometers south of
Canon City, 88 kilometers west-southwest of Pueblo and 225 kilometers south of Denver.
• The Kate Silver Resource (the “KSR”) has been extensively drilled since the 1960’s, and is one of
four known historic silver deposits on the Silver Cliff property. The KSR underlies approximately
36 hectares or 4% of the 900 hectares at Silver Cliff which Viscount controls.
• The initial KSR silver resource estimate for Viscount was prepar ed in April 2018 by Gilles
Arseneau, Ph.D., P. Geo., of Arseneau Consulting Services (“ACS”) in accordance with CIM
standards incorporated by reference in National Instrument 43 -101 (“NI 43 -101”) using results
from 19 cored HQ holes drilled in two phases in 2016 and 2017 plus results from historic holes
verified by the 2016-17 programs as assessed by ACS.
Many of the historic holes had been drilled for Tenneco Minerals at the KSR between 1987 and 1990,
following which the company completed a feasibility study for open pit mining of silver and announced
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plans to construct a $35,000,000 milling operation at Silver Cliff. Shortly thereafter, the parent company,
Tenneco was sold and the new owners decided to divest their mineral interests and the decision was
reversed in 1991.
Of Viscount’s two drilling campaigns on the KSR/Kate deposit, nine holes totalling 455.2 metres were
drilled in 2016 and ten additional holes totalling 912.1 metres were drilled in October of 2017. The
drilling programs were primarily aimed at verifying the historical drill results. The best intersections
from the 2016 and 2017 drilling according to ACS are:
Hole # From
(m)
To
(m)
Interval
(m)
Ag
(g/t)
K16-01
Including
Including
18.29
18.29
24.38
32.00
24.38
28.04
13.71
6.09
3.66
924.0
1,768.0
427.0
K16-03
Including
17.37
24.99
34.14
34.14
16.76
9.14
141.5
241.5
K16-04
Including
18.59
27.74
36.88
35.36
18.29
7.62
204.0
380.0
K16-05
including
19.81
25.91
33.53
32.00
13.72
6.09
390.6
762.0
K16-08
Including
32.00
39.62
52.73
50.29
20.73
10.67
230.0
403.0
K17-02
including
1.50
12.00
34.50
30.00
33.00
18.00
93.0
120.5
K17-04
Including
18.00
22.50
39.00
34.50
21.00
12.00
121.7
180.8
K17-05
including
9.50
11.00
24.50
18.50
15.00
7.50
279.6
477.0
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Effective April 15 2018, ACS estimated that the Kate deposit contained 2,064,000 tonnes of Indicated
Mineral Resource averaging 84 g/t of silver for 5,560,000 ounces of silver and 3,172,000 tonnes of
Inferred Mineral Resource averaging 70 g/t of silver for 7,143,900 ounces of silver.
classification tonnes grade Ag (g/t) ounces silver
Indicated 2,064,000 84 5,560,900
Inferred 3,172,000 70 7,143,900
(1) Mineral Resources which are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic
viability.
(2) The estimate of Mineral Resources may be materially affected by environmental, permitting,
legal, title, taxation, socio-political, marketing, or other relevant issues.
(3) The Inferred Mineral Resource in this estimate has a lower level of confidence than that
applied to an Indicated Mineral Resource and must not be converted to a Mineral Reserve. It is
reasonably expected that the majority of the Inferred Mineral Resource could be upgraded to an
Indicated Mineral Resource with continued exploration.
(4) The Mineral Resources in this report were estimated using the Canadian Institute of Mining,
Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), CIM Standards on Mineral Resources and Reserves, Definitions and
Guidelines prepared by the CIM Standing Committee on Reserve Definitions and adopted by the CIM
Council.
Mineral Resources were estimated by ordinary kriging using Geovia GEMs Version 6.8.1 modelling
software into 10 by 10 by 5 m blocks. All mineralized blocks were assigned a 2.36 t/m3bulk density. ACS
considers that blocks estimated during pass one and from at least 4 drill holes could be assigned to the
Indicated category.
Viscount is also pleased to announce that as of September 20, 2020, 2,597,000 warrants and 117,000
options were exercised, for gross proceeds to the Company of $901,950.
Qualified Persons
The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved
by Harald Hoegberg PG, an independent consulting geologist who is a "Qualified Person" (QP) as such
term is defined under National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-
101").
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About Viscount Mining (TSX VENTURE: VML) (OTCQB: VLMGF)
Viscount Mining is a project generator and an exploration company with a portfolio of silver and gold
properties in the Western United States, including Silver Cliff in Colorado and Cherry Creek in Nevada.
The Silver Cliff property in Colorado lies within the historic Hardscrabble Silver District in the Wet
Mountain Valley, Custer County, south-central Colorado. It is located 44 miles WSW of Pueblo,
Colorado, and has year-around access by paved road. The property consists of 2,319.48 hectares where
high grade silver, gold and base metal production came from numerous mines during the period 1878 to
the early 1900’s. The property underwent substantial exploration between 1967 and 1984.
The property is interpreted to encompass a portion of a large caldera and highly altered sequence of
tertiary rhyolitic flows and fragmental units which offers potential to host deposits with both precious and
base metals. This has been demonstrated in the mineralization historically extracted from the numerous
underground and surface mining operations. Drilling in the 1980s by Tenneco resulted in a historical pre-
feasibility study on which basis it was planned to bring the property to production. The plan was
abandoned following a takeover by another company.
The Cherry Creek exploration property is in an area commonly known as the Cherry Creek Mining
District, located approximately 50 miles north of the town of Ely, White Pine County, Nevada. Cherry
Creek consists of 293 unpatented and patented claims as well as mill rights and is comprised of more than
2,442 hectares. Cherry Creek includes more than 20 past producing mines.
For additional information regarding the above noted property and other corporate information,
please visit the Company's website at www.viscountmining.com
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
“Jim MacKenzie”
President, CEO and Director
For further information, please contact:
Viscount Investor Relations
Email: [email protected]
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