Canada Zinc Metals Announces Akie Underground Exploration Permit Extension
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Investor Relations Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 2017
Phone (604) 684-2181 (No.2017-12-21)
Canada Zinc Metals Announces Akie Underground Exploration Permit Extension
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Wednesday, December 6, 2017 – Canada Zinc Metals Corp.
(TSX Venture Exchange: CZX) is pleased to announce that the Company has received a 3-year extension
to its Akie Underground Exploration Permit to December 31, 2020.
Underground Drill Permit Extension
With improving zinc prices and more robust financia l markets, the Company feels the timing for
advancement of the project will be favorable in 2018.
The Company was able to complete certain surface co nstruction tasks in the period from 2011 to 2016,
including construction of 2.2 km of the portal acce ss road, clearing of a small waste dump, and cleari ng of
the proposed portal site.
Although the Underground Program has not yet commenced, Canada Zinc Metals has diligently continued
to collect both environmental baseline and monitori ng data to ensure compliance with the Mines Act , the
Health, Safety and Reclamation Code for Mines in British Columbia , the Mineral Exploration Permit and the
Effluent Permit as issued from the Ministry of Envi ronment. This work includes surface and groundwater
quality data, turbidity monitoring, and ongoing rock characterization.
As part of the Company’s ongoing commitment to open and transparent communication and cooperation
with First Nations, and subject to the 2013 tripart ite Exploration and Cooperation Agreement signed wi th
Tsay Keh Dene and Kwadacha, the Company provided a copy of the Underground Exploration Permit
extension application to the respective communities for input and comment 30 days prior to application. No
concerns were expressed apart from the desire of both communities to see continued communication from
the Company on all exploration related matters, inc luding the ongoing surface drill program. Both Firs t
Nations provided letters of support that demonstrat e the commitment of both communities to support
Canada Zinc Metals’ endeavor to advance the Akie project in a timely and environmentally sound manner.
The approval was received November 3 rd 2017 from the permitting section of the BC Ministr y of Energy
and Mines and Petroleum Resources and will now allo w the Company time to execute the planned
underground drill program in the coming years without the need for a permit revision or amendment.
Stated, President and CEO Peeyush Varshney, “This e xtension will enable us to execute on our planned
underground drill definition program. We look forw ard to aggressively moving the Cardiac Creek deposi t
forward.”
The Akie Zn-Pb-Ag Project
The 100% owned Akie property is situated within the Kechika Trough, the southernmost area of the
regionally extensive Paleozoic Selwyn Basin and one of the most prolific sedimentary basins in the wor ld
for the occurrence of SEDEX zinc-lead-silver and stratiform barite deposits.
Drilling on the Akie property by Canada Zinc Metals since 2005 has identified a significant body of ba ritic-
zinc-lead SEDEX mineralization known as the Cardiac Creek deposit. The deposit is hosted by siliceous,
carbonaceous, fine grained clastic rocks of the Middle to Late Devonian Gunsteel Formation.
The Company has outlined a NI 43-101 compliant mine ral resource at Cardiac Creek, including an
indicated resource of 19.6 million tonnes grading 8 .2% zinc, 1.6% lead and 13.6 g/t silver (at a 5%
zinc cut-off grade) and an inferred resource of 8.1 million tonnes grading 6.8% zinc, 1.1% lead and
11.2 g/t silver (at a 5% zinc cut-off grade).
In addition to the Akie Project, the Company owns 1 00% of ten, large, contiguous property blocks that
comprise the Kechika Regional project. The Kechika Regional Project includes the Pie, Yuen, Cirque East
and Mt. Alcock properties, extending northwest from the Akie property for approximately 140 kilometres
along strike of the highly prospective Gunsteel Formation shale; the main host rock for known SEDEX zinc-
lead-silver deposits in the Kechika Trough of north eastern British Columbia. These projects are locate d
approximately 260 kilometres north northwest of the town of Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada.
Ken MacDonald P.Geo., Vice President of Exploration , is the designated Qualified Person as defined by
National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the technical information contained in this release.
The TSX Venture Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CANADA ZINC METALS CORP.
“PEEYUSH VARSHNEY”
PEEYUSH VARSHNEY, LL.B
CEO & CHAIRMAN