SUDBURY, ON, Sept. 5, 2018 /CNW/ - Transition Metals Corp (XTM
– TSX.V) ("Transition", "the Company") is pleased to provide assays
results from preliminary prospecting completed on the company's
Revell and Island Copper Projects located in northwestern
Ontario. Both the Revell and
Island Copper properties were acquired by XTM in April of 2018 as
part of a much larger staking program (see April 23, 2018 – Press Release) designed at
acquiring low-cost exploration assets consistent with the company's
Project Generator Business Model.
Revell Property
The Revell Property is located 50 km SE of the town of
Dryden in Revell and Hyndman
townships along the TransCanada Highway. The Property covers a set
of underexplored Ni-Cu-PGM showings, called the Tache East and West
showings that were discovered in the 1960's. Historic drilling
completed in 1967 on the Tache West showing encountered two shallow
zones of Ni-Cu mineralization hosted within a marginal gabbroic
unit that returned values of 10 ft @ 0.64% Ni, 0.77% Cu and 12 ft @
0.68% Ni, 0.90% Cu.
Three days were spent prospecting the Revell Property focusing
on locating and resampling the historic Tache West and East
showings. A total of 24 samples were collected and submitted for
analyses. Highlights from that sampling are listed below.
Sample
|
Showing
|
Pt (ppm)
|
Pd (ppm)
|
Au (ppm)
|
Pt+Pd+Au
(ppm)
|
Cu (wt.%)
|
Ni (wt.%)
|
S899353
|
Tache West
|
0.269
|
0.371
|
0.361
|
1.00
|
0.64
|
0.11
|
S899355
|
Tache West
|
0.264
|
0.393
|
0.259
|
0.92
|
0.48
|
0.07
|
S899356
|
Tache West
|
0.102
|
0.150
|
0.081
|
0.33
|
0.31
|
0.07
|
S899358
|
Tache West
|
0.179
|
0.274
|
0.117
|
0.57
|
0.48
|
0.09
|
S899371
|
Tache East
|
0.092
|
0.294
|
0.057
|
0.44
|
0.29
|
0.14
|
S899376
|
Tache East
|
0.068
|
0.193
|
0.051
|
0.31
|
0.22
|
0.23
|
Island Copper Property
The Island Copper Property is located 15 km north of
Sault Ste. Marie in Aweres
Township and covers an area that is interpreted to have high
potential for IOCG-style, Cu-Au-Ag mineralization. Mineralization
on the property is hosted in a highly altered granite breccia that
is situated at the intersection of major crustal faults thought to
represent the terrain boundary between Archean and Proterozoic
rocks. Historic drilling completed on the property by Kennco
Exploration in 1965 reported 11.59 m
@ 3.4% Cu and 0.9g/t Au at the Main Showing.
Prospecting the Island Copper Property focused on locating and
resampling the historic Main Showing. A total of nine samples were
collected and submitted for analyses. Assay results are listed
below.
Sample
|
Showing
|
Cu (wt. %)
|
Ag (ppm)
|
S (wt. %)
|
S899379
|
Main
Showing
|
2.80
|
<1
|
3.21
|
S899380
|
Main
Showing
|
9.00
|
7
|
9.41
|
S899381
|
Main
Showing
|
4.21
|
4
|
3.97
|
S899382
|
Main
Showing
|
4.67
|
1
|
5.37
|
S899383
|
Main
Showing
|
4.69
|
2
|
4.72
|
S899384
|
Main
Showing
|
1.61
|
<1
|
1.63
|
S899385
|
Main
Showing
|
3.72
|
<1
|
3.80
|
S899386
|
Main
Showing
|
3.14
|
<1
|
3.19
|
S899387
|
Main
Showing
|
0.63
|
2
|
0.90
|
Commenting on the news, Company CEO and President Scott McLean stated "We are encouraged with
the assay results from the initial prospecting at both the Revell
and Island Copper properties. We feel that the Revell Property has
the potential to host a new Ni-Cu-PGM environment that has seen
only minimal exploration over the past 50 years and the results
from the Island Copper Property demonstrate the high grade
potential of this poorly understood property. In the following
months we look forward to further exploring and evaluating both of
these properties."
Qualified Person
The technical elements of this press release have been approved
by Mr. Grant Mourre, P.Geo. (APGO),
a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43A-101. All
analytical work performed on rock samples was conducted at AGAT
Laboratories with sample preparation completed in Thunder Bay and Sudbury, Ontario and analyses completed in
Mississauga, ON. The quality
system used by AGAT Laboratories complies with international
standards ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 17025:2005.
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SOURCE Transition Metals Corp.