Cole Lake Precious/Base Metals Project Expanded
July 03 2012 - 2:27PM
PR Newswire (Canada)
Trading Symbol CIN-TSX.V VANCOUVER, July 6, 2012 /CNW/ - Canadian
International Minerals Inc (CIN-TSX.V) is pleased to announce that
it has expanded its Cole Lake property by staking 2 claims covering
346.78 hectares for a total of 16 claims with 6967.22 hectares
areal extent in the Cole Lake area of west central British
Columbia. The claims cover Bulkley Intrusive Suite units, as well
as Hazelton and Bowser Lake sediments and volcanic rocks, that are
favorable hosts for significant base and precious metal
mineralization in B.C. The property includes several B.C. MINFILE
occurrences of precious and base metals mineralization.
Silicification and carbonatization with associated pyrite,
pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite were identified by Cominco in 1945 on
the property. (GSC Memoir 299). No further work appears to have
been done in the area until 1980, when Welcome North Mines
conducted geological mapping, rock and soil sampling. A
summary of work completed in 1980 (Holland, R. 1981) states:
"Showing 'C' occurs within the northern fault zone and consists of
brecciated bornite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite and lesser pyrite in a
rusty quartz-carbonate matrix. The vein, where best exposed,
appears to be 0.5 metres in width. A second exposure up the hill
provides evidence for a strike length of at least 100 metres.
A selected specimen of high grade material assayed 17.6% copper and
12.45 oz/ton silver, while a specimen of representative grade ran
0.626% copper and 0.38 oz/ton silver." Follow up work in 1983
produced samples which assayed up to 6.35 g/t gold over narrow
widths (Richards, T., 1983). In 1987 the GSC/BCGS released
regional geochemical survey data for an area including the present
Cole claims which contained anomalous base and precious metals, as
well as indicator elements (Open File 1360). Follow up programs in
1987/88, which included prospecting and silt sampling, reported
samples grading up to 3.7g/t gold (Richards, T., 1988). No further
work has been recorded in the area since the late 1980's. The north
boundary of the Cole property is approximately 15 km south of
Imperial Metals Corporation's (III-TSX) producing Huckleberry mine.
The mine has been in production since 1997 and by January 1, 2011
had produced 870 million pounds of copper, 105,000 ounces of gold,
3.4 million ounces of silver and is also recovering molybdenum in
concentrates (Christensen, Connaughton, Ogryzlo, 2011).
Huckleberry's mine life has recently been extended to 2021. Eleven
kilometers north of the Cole property and south of the Huckleberry
mine is Gold Reach Resources Ltd's (GRV-TSX.V) Seel deposit. GRV
has recently announced intercepts up to 556.7 meters of 0.51%
copper equivalent and 571.9m of 0.38% copper equivalent at
Seel (GRV news release 6/12/12). The ongoing diamond drilling
program has been expanded to a minimum 25,000 meters (GRV news
release 6/26/12). The Cole claims are in an area traditionally
explored for porphyry copper type (bulk tonnage, low grade)
targets, but a recent exploration program by Callinex Mines Inc.
(CNX-TSX.V) has identified significant higher grade gold, silver,
lead, zinc mineralization on a property which directly adjoins
CIN's claims to the east. CNX has recently announced an 11.70 metre
diamond drill intersection grading 175.00 grams per tonne silver,
0.19 g/t gold, 2.11 % zinc and 1.52 % lead. This hole was drilled
94 metres away from CNX hole Cole 28, which included 21.3 metres
grading 3.37 g/t gold, 15.33 g/t silver and 2.04 % zinc (CNX news
release 11/25/11). CNX`s drilling was conducted approximately 7 km
from CIN's property boundary. An expanded CNX drill program to
follow up last year's work has been announced (CNX news release
7/5/12). CIN is planning a property scale airborne geophysical
program for the 2012 exploration season with follow up on the
ground. The Company also announces that it has closed its private
placement of 2,094,000 non flow-through units (the "NFT Units") at
$0.05 per NFT Unit for total gross proceeds of $104,700 and 790,000
flow-through units (the "FT Units") at $0.07 per FT unit for total
gross proceeds of $55,300. Each NFT unit consists of one common
share and one transferable share purchase warrant, each warrant
entitling the holder to purchase one additional common share for a
period of two years at a price of $0.10 per share in the first year
and $0.15 per share in the second year of the term of the warrant.
Each FT unit consists of one flow-through common share and one
transferable share purchase warrant, each warrant entitling the
holder to purchase one non flow-through common share for a period
of two years at a price of $0.10 per share in the first year and
$0.15 per share in the second year of the term of the warrant. The
Company issued 49,000 units in payment of finder's fees under the
placement, each unit consisting of one common share and one
non-transferable share purchase warrant authorizing the purchase of
one additional common share for a period of two years at a price of
$0.10 per share in the first year and $0.15 per share in the second
year of the term of the warrant. All securities issued under the
placement are subject to hold periods expiring on October 20, 2012.
Proceeds of the placement will be used for Qualified Exploration
Expenditures on the Company's mineral properties and for general
working capital. The Company has arranged, subject to the
acceptance of the TSX Venture Exchange, to reprice and extend the
expiry date of warrants issued on July 15, 2011, originally set to
expire on July 15, 2012. There are currently 1,448,056
warrants outstanding, each warrant exercisable into one common
share of the Company at a price of $0.25 per share. The new
expiry date of the warrants will be July 15, 2016. The
exercise price of the warrants will be $0.10 per share and will now
include an acceleration provision, being that if the common shares
of the Company trade on the TSX Venture Exchange at a price of
$0.125 or more for 10 consecutive trading days, then the warrants
will expire on the earlier of 4:30 p.m. (Vancouver time) 30
calendar days after the 10(th) trading day and expiry date of the
warrants. Mr. Thomas Hasek, P.Geo., M.Sc., is a Qualified Person
pursuant to NI 43-101 and has read and approved the technical
disclosure contained in this news release. Michael E. Schuss
President and Chief Executive Officer Neither TSX Venture Exchange
nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in
the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility
for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Canadian
International Minerals Inc. CONTACT: CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL
MINERALS INC.Suite 1130 - 789 West Pender StreetVancouver, BC, V6C
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