Canada Zinc Metals Mobilizes Exploration Crew to the Akie Property to Commence the 2017 Exploration Program
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Investor Relations Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Phone (604) 684-2181 (No.2017-06-09)
Canada Zinc Metals Mobilizes Exploration Crew to the Akie Property
to Commence the 2017 Exploration Program
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Tuesday, June 13, 2017 – Canada Zinc Metals Corp. (TSX
Venture Exchange: CZX) is pleased to announce that field crews have mobil ized to the Akie property to
commence the 2017 diamond drilling program on its 100% owned Akie Project. The Company has outlined
a comprehensive program of HQ diamond drilling that will focus primarily on the Cardiac Creek Zn-Pb-Ag
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
The 2017 exploration program will focus on the Card iac Creek stratiform Zn-Pb-Ag deposit located on th e
Akie property. The Company will mobilize two drills to the property to complete a comprehensive diamon d
drilling program. A majority of the drilling will t arget the Cardiac Creek deposit with a focus on exp anding
the down-dip limits of the high-grade core of the d eposit as well as other expansion targets down-dip and
along strike. Additional drilling will be allocated to infill targets across the deposit with the primary objective
of providing 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; 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 t he eastern edge of the Akie property that is
characterized by a thick barite sequence hosting disseminated coarse-grained galena and sphalerite.
Diamond drilling is expected to start shortly and continue through to end of September.
Mr. Peeyush Varshney, President and CEO of the Comp any, commented, "We look forward to additional
drilling to showcase the near-term development pote ntial of the Cardiac Creek deposit. This year’s drilling
and planned metallurgical testing will allow us to advance the project and demonstrate the considerabl e
potential to expand the deposit at depth and along strike. The Akie project continues to stand out as one of
the premier zinc-lead-silver projects in today’s marketplace.”
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