Canada Zinc Metals Engages Contractors for the 2017 Exploration Program on the Akie Project
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Investor Relations Monday, May 1, 2017
Phone (604) 684-2181 (No.2017-05-09)
Canada Zinc Metals Engages Contractors for the
2017 Exploration Program on the Akie Project
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Monday, May 1 , 2017 – Canada Zinc Metals Corp. (TSX
Venture Exchange: CZX) is pleased to announce that it has finalized plans for the upcoming 2017
exploration program on the Akie property. The Compa ny has outlined a comprehensive up to 7,500 metre
diamond drill program that will focus primarily on its Cardiac Creek deposit.
The Company owns 100% of eleven, large, contiguous property blocks that comprise the Akie and Kechika
Regional projects. The Company’s flagship Akie Project is host to the Cardiac Creek deposit. The Kechika
Regional Project includes the Pie, Yuen, Cirque Eas t and Mt. Alcock properties extending northwest fro m
the Akie property for approximately 140 kilometres covering the highly prospective Gunsteel Formation
shale; the main host rock for known SEDEX zinc-lead-silver deposits in the Kechika Trough of northeastern
British Columbia. These projects are located approx imately 260 kilometres north northwest of the town of
Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada.
The 2017 Exploration Plan
Logistical planning for the 2017 exploration progra m is currently underway with contractual arrangemen ts
being finalized with several service providers.
The Company has engaged Canadian Helicopters Ltd. of Edmonton, Alberta, to provide helicopter services
for the duration of the exploration program. Canadi an Helicopters Ltd. has bases located throughout th e
interior of British Columbia including; Smithers, F ort St. John and Terrace, and is strategically loca ted to
support the program. Canadian Helicopters Ltd. rece ntly provided similar services to Teck at its Cirqu e
Project located approximately 20 kilometres from the Akie property; as such they are familiar with the local
terrain and expected weather conditions.
The Company has also engaged Western Exploration Dr illing Ltd. of Kamloops, British Columbia to once
again provide drilling services to the project. Western Exploration Drilling Ltd. has provided drilling services
to the Akie project over the course of four explora tion seasons since 2011 and has been instrumental i n
allowing the Company to effectively and efficiently define the Cardiac Creek deposit, and explore the Akie
property. In addition to the drilling and helicopte r companies, the Company is currently finalizing
arrangements with several other key service providers.
Diamond Drilling Program
The 2017 exploration program will focus on the Card iac Creek stratiform Zn-Pb-Ag deposit located on th e
Akie property. The Company plans on mobilizing two drills to the Akie property to complete a
comprehensive up to 7,500 metre diamond drilling pr ogram in 2017. Up to 5,000 metres of drilling will
target the Cardiac Creek deposit with a focus on ex panding the down-dip limits of the high-grade core of
the deposit as well as other expansion targets down-dip and along strike. An additional up to 2,500 metres
of drilling will be allocated for infill targets ac ross the deposit with the primary objective of prov iding
additional material for subsequent metallurgical lab testing.
Additional exploration drill targets across the Aki e property will be considered and include: the Nort h Lead
Zone where previous drilling intersected extensive intervals of bedded pyrite mineralisation that were highly
anomalous in zinc and a thin massive sulphide lens; the South Zinc Anomaly which is defined by a large
(~2 kilometre by 500 metre) zinc-in-soil anomaly; and the Sitka Showing located on the eastern edge of the
Akie property that is characterized by a thick barite sequence hosting disseminated coarse grained galena
and sphalerite.
The diamond drill program is expected to start early June and continue through to end of September.
Mr. Peeyush Varshney, President and CEO of the Company, stated, "We are pleased with the progress we
have made in finalizing our exploration targets at Akie and look forward to soon mobilizing the drill rigs for
commencement of drilling”.
The Akie Zn-Pb-Ag Project
The Company’s flagship Akie property is situated within the Kechika Trough, the southernmost area of the
regionally extensive Paleozoic Selwyn Basin, one of the most prolific sedimentary basins in the world 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-silver SEDEX mineralisation 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).
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