Zacatecas Silver To Resume Trading on Thursday March 10, 2022
Zacatecas Silver To Resume Trading on Thursday March
10, 2022
VANCOUVER, BC
,
March 8, 2022
/CNW/ - Zacatecas Silver Corp. ("Zacatecas" or the "Company") (TSX Venture: ZAC)
(OTC Markets: ZCTSF) (
Frankfurt
: 7TV) is pleased to announce that the Company's common shares will resume trading at
the market open on
Thursday, March 10, 2022
. Shares were temporarily halted from trading following the announcement
that Zacatecas had entered into an agreement to acquire the Esperanza Project ("Esperanza") from
Alamos
, as described
in a Zacatecas News Release dated
February 28, 2022
.
Highlights:
Recent announcement of the acquisition of the Esperanza Project from Alamos Gold Inc. ("Alamos").
Upon completion of the transaction,
Alamos
will become the largest shareholder of
Zacatecas
Order books closed, with allocations complete, on recently announced
$18 million
financing.
In addition to the
Esperanza
transaction, drilling continues on the Company's
Zacatecas
silver properties
following up on multiple recently announced high grade intercepts at Panuco North.
Esperanza
is an advanced stage, attractive low-cost, low-capital-intensity and low-technical-risk growth project located in
Morelos
state,
Mexico
.
Alamos
has progressed the project through advanced engineering, including metallurgical work, while
also focusing on stakeholder engagement, including building community relations.
Esperanza
is a high-grade oxide gold deposit with scalable upside, with a historic measured and indicated resource of
34,352,000 tonnes at 0.98 gram per tonne (g/t) gold and 8.09 g/t silver for 1,084,000 ounces of gold and 8,936,000 ounces
of silver and inferred resource of 718,000 tonnes at 0.80 g/t gold and 15.04 g/t silver for 18,000 ounces of gold and 347,000
ounces of silver (see below for details).
To date, significant core and reverse circulation drilling has occurred at the
Esperanza
gold project, resulting in a total of 389
drill holes for 69,716 metres. Four targets adjacent to or close to the historical resource were identified to expand the
historical resource. The project also hosts seven regional exploration targets, largely untested, that also merit drill testing.
Mineralization at the
Esperanza
gold project is associated with the intrusion of a stock of granodiorite composition into the
carbonate rocks of the
Guerrero
-
Morelos
platform, specifically the rocks of the
Xochicalco
formation. Spatially related to the
intrusive contact with the carbonate rocks are varying degrees of skarn and marble development. Intruded by the
granodioritic stock are the limestone of the
Xochicalco
formation of Aptian age (early Cretaceous) that have beds of varying
thickness from very thin to medium. Primary mineralization consists of gold and, to a lesser extent, silver, associated with the
skarn zones spatially related to the intrusive.
Based on previous preliminary assessments completed by previous owners, the Company anticipates that the project would
be amenable to a conventional open-pit, heap leach operation with two-stage crushing. Crushed material would be conveyed
to the leach pad and irrigated with dilute cyanide solution. Gold will be recovered from pregnant solutions utilizing carbon
adsorption, subsequent electrowinning and on-site smelting to produce gold and silver dore bars.
The Company plans to carry out an extensive work program to prepare an updated resource estimate, undertake economic
studies on the project as well as drilling on nearby exploration targets.
The total consideration of the transaction is approximately
$60-million
(U.S.) with most of the payments not made until
significant steps toward commercial production are achieved. The initial consideration consists of
$5-million
(U.S.) in cash,
$10-million
(U.S.) in
Zacatecas
shares and a silver stream in favour of
Alamos
valued at
$6-million
(U.S.) (see Zacatecas
News Release dated
February 28, 2021
for details of the transaction).
After announcing the transaction,
Zacatecas
announced a CAD
$15 million
financing via a brokered private placement and
then upsized the financing to CAD
$18 million
due to strong investor demand (see Zacatecas News Release dated
March 4,
2022
for details of this upsized financing).
Qualified person
The contents of this news release have been reviewed and approved by Dr. Wilson, BSc (honours), PhD, FAusIMM (CP),
FSEG, chief operating officer of Zacatecas Silver. Dr. Wilson is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101
and is responsible for all technical information in this news release.
Alamos
resource estimate
Alamos
reported in its most recent annual information form a resource estimate of a measured and indicated resource of
34,352,000 tonnes at 0.98 g/t gold and 8.09 g/t silver for 1,083,366 ounces of gold and 8,936,201 ounces of silver and
inferred resource of 718,000 tonnes at 0.80 g/t gold and 15.04 g/t silver for 18,375 ounces of gold and 347,192 ounces of
silver. The Company considers this to be an historical resource for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101. Resource
blocks were defined using with dimensions of 10 metres (m) by
10 m
by
five m
. The estimation of grades was performed
with the ordinary kriging method on capped composites. An added step in the estimation strategy was the utilization of the
dynamic anisotropy technique in
Vulcan's
unfolding options. This added capability allows for a more realistic outcome of the
estimated grade's spatial distribution as it follows the folded shape of the deposit. Assumptions used in the resource include
the following metal prices: gold price of
$1,400
(U.S.) per ounce (oz) and silver price of
$22
(U.S.) per oz. The resource
assumed the following economic assumptions: recovery of 60.4 per cent at 0.2 g/t to 71.9 per cent at 1.6 g/t for gold, 25
per cent for silver,
$2.60
-per-tonne mining costs,
64-cents
-per-tonne general and administrative costs,
$4.20
-per-tonne
milling costs and a pit slope of 45 degrees. The Company considers the resource relevant due to its identification and
modelling of the
Esperanza
deposit.
The Company has not done sufficient work to classify the resource as a current mineral resource or mineral reserves and
the Company is not treating the historical estimate as current mineral resources or mineral reserves. Although the resource
estimate is considered reliable, the Company will resample a portion of the drill core for the purpose of carrying out a new
resource estimate. Furthermore, additional data verification, including resurveying of select diamond drill holes collars; review
of graphic drill core logs, comparison of these logs with remaining half-cut core and a cross check of select geological logs
agonist database entries; and a check of original assay certificates against the assays and drill hole database.
About Zacatecas Silver Corp.
The
Zacatecas
silver property is located in
Zacatecas
state,
Mexico
, within the highly prospective
Fresnillo
silver belt, which
has produced over 6.2 billion ounces of silver. The company holds 7,826 hectares (ha) (19,338 acres) of ground that is
highly prospective for low-sulphidation and intermediate-sulphidation silver base metal mineralization and potentially low-
sulphidation gold-dominant mineralization. On
Dec. 15, 2021
,
Zacatecas
announced a mineral resource estimate at the
Panuco
deposit consisting of 2.7 million tonnes at 187 grams per tonne (g/t) silver equivalent (AgEq) (171 g/t silver (Ag) and
0.17 g/t gold (Au)) for 16.4 million ounces AgEq (15 million ounces silver and 15,000 ounces gold).
The property is 25 kilometres (km) southeast of MAG Silver Corp.'s Juanicipio mine and Fresnillo PLC's
Fresnillo
mine. The
property shares common boundaries with Pan American Silver Corp. claims and El Orito, which is owned by Endeavour
Silver. There are four main high-grade silver target areas within the
Zacatecas
concessions: the
Panuco
deposit, Muleros, El
Cristo and San Manuel-San Gill. The property also includes
El Oro
, El Orito,
La Cantera
, Monserrat,
El Penon
,
San Judas
and
San Juan
silver base metal vein targets. These targets are relatively unexplored and will be the focus of rapid
reconnaissance.
On behalf of the Company,
Bryan Slusarchuk
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions as of the date
of this news release. These statements reflect management's current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations. They
are not guarantees of future performance. Zacatecas Silver cautions that all forward looking statements are inherently
uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by many material factors, many of which are beyond their respective
control. Such factors include, among other things: risks and uncertainties relating to Zacatecas Silver's limited operating
history, its proposed exploration and development activities on is Zacatecas Properties and the need to comply with
environmental and governmental regulations. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions and results may differ
materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or implied in the forward-looking information.
Except as required under applicable securities legislation, Zacatecas Silver does not undertake to publicly update or revise
forward-looking information.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the
Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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