ZincX Resources Provides a Permitting Update
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Investor Relations Friday, July 31, 2020
Phone (604) 684-2181 (No.2020-07-31)
ZincX Resources Provides a Permitting Update
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada –Friday, July 31, 2020 – ZincX Resources Corp. (“ZincX
Resources” or the “Company”, TSX Venture Exchange: ZNX) is pleased to provide an update on the
permitting status and planned exploration activities for its highly-prospective Kechika Regional project.
Permitting Status Update:
The Company has been advised by the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources that four
Kechika regional drill permits on the Pie, Yuen, Mt. Alcock, and Kechika North properties have been
renewed for an additional 5-year period, until November 28, 2025. Drilling on these properties had
previously been permitted with a renewal occurring in December, 2015, extending the expiry date until
December, 31st 2019.
These drill permits cover high-priority drill-ready targets on the largest tenure holdings within the Kechika
Trough, and will allow additional drill testing to take place at a progressive and measured pace as new
anomalies are identified and confirmed as drill targets.
Kechika Regional Project:
TheKechika Regional Project extends northwest from the Akie property for approximately 140kilometres
along the strike of the highly prospective Gunsteel Formation shale; the host rockfor known SEDEX zinc-
lead-silver deposits in the Kechika Trough.The project is comprised of the Kechika North Project and the
Pie Option properties.The Company believes the generative portfolio of Kechika Regional properties
offershareholders and investment partners significant opportunities for exposure to newdiscoveries in the
Kechika Trough.
The Kechika North project is comprised of eight contiguous properties 100% owned by the Company:
from south to the north the properties are Yuen North, Mt. Alcock,Kwad, Weiss, Bear/Spa, Driftpile South,
Saint, and Thro. Theproperties comprise 126 contiguous mineral claims covering an area of 50,515
hectares andhave been explored intermittently over the past 35years. The claims are in good
standinguntil the year 2029with no carrying costs. The claims are free and clear of all liens,charges and
encumbrances apart from a 1% NSR royalty on the Mt. Alcock property (18mineral claims: 4,897 ha)
which the Company has the sole right of first refusal to purchase outright for the sum of $1 million dollars.
The Kechika North Project is anchored by two key advanced prospects on the Mt. Alcock and Bear/Spa
properties. Both properties host known baritic Zn-Pb-Ag mineralisation. Significant historical drill
interceptsfrom the Mt. Alcock property include 8.8metres (apparent width) grading 9.3% Zn+Pb (1).Drilling
on the Bear/Spaproperty returned several intercepts of >10 metres (apparent width) grading 2.53 to
2.96% combined Zn-Pband up to 20.6 g/t Ag (2). There has been no modern follow-up exploration on these
twoprospects.
A preliminary examination of the soil data reveals a semi-continuous geochemical anomaly stretching
across several properties including Saint, Driftpile South, and Bear/Spa covering a strike length of
approximately 30 kilometres. Despite their prospectivity, presence of known mineralisation, and
geochemical anomalies, the properties of the North Kechika Project have seen little to no work over the
past 35 years.
Three of the Kechika Regional properties (Pie, Yuen and Cirque East or “Pie Option”properties) are the
subject of an option agreement concluded on September 9, 2013 with Teck Resources Ltd . (TSX:
TECK.B) and its JV partner, Korea Zinc Co., Ltd. Teck and Korea Zinc spent approximately $3.5 million
in exploration expenditures on the Pie Option properties and earned an undivided 51% interest in the Pie
Option properties with the Company retaining a significant 49% interest.
The Pie Option properties surround Teck/Korea Zinc’s jointly owned Cirque deposit to thenorth and east,
and provide extensive coverage of the highly prospective GunsteelFormation shale. The properties
comprise 58 contiguous mineral claims covering an area of17,679 hectares and have been explored
intermittently over the past thirty years. Historicaldrilling totals 29 diamond drill holes for 8,097.4 metres,
with 6,636.3 metres drilled on Pie,and 1,461.0 metres drilled on Yuen.
Data Compilation and Target Generation:
The Company completed a massive digital compilation program incorporatingrecent and historical
geological data, gathered from public exploration assessment reports,BCGS open file reports and
historical internal corporate reports donated to the BCgovernment, that represents over 35 years of
mineral exploration conducted in the KechikaTrough.
The digital information wascaptured at property to regional scales; and includes drilling, geological,
geochemical andgeophysical data. The historical data has been merged with the Company’s
recentexploration data to form a comprehensive digital record. The ability to access, display, layer, and
analyze multiple datasets at both the property and regional scales, using modern GIS software such as
ArcMap and QGIS, is a tremendous tool to increase the chances of exploration success that was
unavailable to historical workers. Currently, the database exceeds 155 GB in size and includes over
1,250 rock samples,1,775 silt samples, 24,000 soil samples, and 13,875 meters of drilling. Collectively
the workrepresents $7.3 million dollars in historical exploration expenditures.
For several years, the Company has focused primarily on its flagship Akie property but hascompleted
targeted exploration on several of the Kechika Regional properties, includinggeological mapping,
geochemical sampling, and a detailed, high-resolution airborneVersatile Time Domain Electromagnetic
(VTEM) geophysical survey.In 2015 airbornegravity gradiometry (AGG) was completed on the Yuen North
and Mt. Alcock properties.
A complete geostructural analysis of the Northern Kechika area was completed in 2018. An interpretation
of a 55 km (E-W) by 68 km (N-S) area. centered on the Thro, Saint, Driftpile South, BearSpa, Weiss and
Kwad Properties, was undertaken at up to 12,000 scale using Sentinel-2 imagery in order todefine the
structural framework of the district. 50 cm resolution Pleiades-1A data was interpreted in greater detail at
up to 1:2,500 scale. The geostructural analysis has greatly aided the knowledge and understanding of the
architectural framework of the Kechika Trough; and in particular the structural repetition of the key
Gunsteel Formation.
Recently the Company completed a district wide reinterpretation of the geology incorporating both
historical and recent geological mapping efforts combined with the high-resolution satellite imagery. This
dataset coupled with the geophysical and imagery datasets will form the basis of the ongoing geological
modelling and detailed analysis that has now commenced using the integrated database to interpret,
modeland ultimately prioritize areas of interest for further exploration. Work will continue tosynthesize and
evaluate the historical data in the context of modern geological, geostructural and airbornesurveys to aid
in the definition of new exploration targets. Exploration planning is underway for targeted follow-up
mapping, sampling and drill testing of targets.
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 world
for the occurrence of SEDEX zinc-lead-silver and stratiform barite deposits.
Drilling on the Akie property by ZincX Resources since 2005 has identified a significant body of baritic-
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 updated the estimate of mineral resources at Cardiac Creek in 2018, as follows:
5% Zinc Cut-Off Grade Contained Metal:
Category Tonnes
(million) Zn (%) Pb (%) Ag (g/t) Zn (Blbs) Pb (Blbs) Ag (Moz)
Indicated 22.7 8.32 1.61 14.1 4.162 0.804 10.3
Inferred 7.5 7.04 1.24 12.0 1.169 0.205 2.9
The Company announced robust positive results from the 2018 Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA).
The PEA envisages a conventional underground mine and concentrator operation with an average
production rate of 4,000 tonnes per day. The mine will have an 18-year life with potential to extend the
life-of-mine (LOM) through resource expansion at depth. Key parameters for the PEA are as follows:
Parameter Base Case1
Tonnes Mined 25.8 Mt
Mined Head Grades 7.6% Zn; 1.5% Pb; 13.08 g/t Ag
Tonnes Milled 19.7 Mt
Milled Head Grades (after DMS2 upgrade) 10.0% Zn; 1.9% Pb; 17.17 g/t Ag
Total Payable Metal (LOM) $3,960M3
Initial CAPEX $302.3M including $45.7M contingency
LOM Total CAPEX $617.9M including $58.5M contingency
All-in Total OPEX $102.4 per tonne milled
Pre-Tax NPV7% $649M
Pre-Tax IRR 35%
Pre-Tax Payback 2.6 years
After-Tax NPV7% $401M
After-Tax IRR 27%
After-Tax Payback 3.2 years
1. The base case used metal prices are calculated from the 3 year trailing average coupled with two year forward projection of the
average price; and are: US$1.21/lb for zinc, US$1.00/lb for lead and US$16.95 for silver. A CDN$/US$ exchange rate of 0.77 was
used. The NPV discount rate is 7%. 2. DMS = dense media separation. 3. All dollar amounts expressed in Canadian dollars.
The PEA is considered preliminary in nature and includes mineral resources, including inferred mineral resources that are
considered too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be
categorized as mineral reserves. Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves have not yet demonstrated economic viability. Due
to the uncertainty that may be attached to mineral resources, it cannot be assumed that all or any part of a mineral resource will be
upgraded to mineral reserves. Therefore, there is no certainty that the results concluded in the PEA will be realized.
Kechika Regional Project
In addition to the Akie Project, the Company owns 100% of eight of eleven large, contiguous property
blocks that comprise the Kechika Regional Project including the advanced Mt. Alcock prospect. The
Kechika Regional Project also includes the Pie, Yuen and Cirque East properties which the Company
maintains a significant 49% interest with partners Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TECK.B) and Korea Zinc
Co. Ltd holding 51%. These properties collectively extend northwest from 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 approximately 260 kilometres north northwest of the town of Mackenzie,
British Columbia, Canada.
Ken MacDonald P.Geo., Vice President of Exploration for the Company, is the designated Qualified
Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the technical information
contained in this release.Mike Makarenko P.Eng, JDS Energy and Mining, is the designated Qualified
Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the PEA technical information
contained in this release.
(1) Murrell, M., and Roberts, W., 1990; Summary Report, 1989 Exploration Program on the Mt. Alcock Property, British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum
Resources, Assessment Report 19829A & B, 133p.
(2) Carne, R.C., 1980; Report on Diamond Drilling on the Bear and SI Claim Group, British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Assessment Report
8626, 51p.
The TSX Venture Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ZINCX RESOURCES CORP.
“PEEYUSH VARSHNEY”
PEEYUSH VARSHNEY, LL.B
CEO & CHAIRMAN