Rare Earth Results From Playfair South Block
August 10 2010 - 7:30AM
Marketwired
Playfair Mining Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: PLY) is pleased to announce that
Rare Earth Metals (TSX VENTURE: RA) has completed preliminary
sampling of the 2010 airborne geophysical anomalies on the Playfair
South claim block.
Rare Earth Metals can earn a 51 percent interest in Playfair's
313 claim unit property as described in Playfair's February 17th,
2010 news release.
Playfair Mining's assets include the Seal Lake copper-silver
camp, where the company is targeting sizable Kupferschiefer-style
Cu-Ag mineralization. Playfair also owns four advanced stage
tungsten deposits in Canada. While the Seal Lake copper-silver
project is the company's current exploration focus, the tungsten
and the rare earth assets give the company unique exposure to a
portfolio of strategic mineral exploration properties poised to
benefit from supply and demand imbalances being created by
China.
The Playfair South Block is located in the southwest portion of
the historical Letitia Lake - Red Wine rare earth metals
exploration camp; encompassing 15 airborne geophysical anomaly
clusters that have strike extents ranging from 200 meters to 1000
meters. Prospecting and geological mapping completed to date by RA
have resulted in 3 previously unreported mineralized showings on
the PLY-S-02, PLY-S-05 and PLY-S-10 radiometric anomalies. The rare
earth metal mineralization is hosted by predominantly peralkaline
intrusive rocks and is generally characterized by an abundance of
Eudialyte mineralization and is dominated by heavy rare earth
oxides and Zirconium (ZrO2). Geochemical analyses of prospect
samples from three of the new discoveries follow:
PLY-S-02 - (800 metre long radiometric anomaly) Prospect samples
ranged from 0.11% to 1.38% TREO and 0.02% to 3.01% ZrO2. The TREO
(total rare earth oxides) values ranged from 37% to 43% HREO (heavy
rare earth oxides).
PLY-S-05 - (1000 metre long radiometric anomaly) Results here
include the discovery of a 5 to 13 meter wide actinolite chlorite
schist zone exposed for a strike length of 110 meters. Traces of
eudialyte have been reported and geochemical analysis of prospect
samples returned values that ranged from 0.51% to 2.41% TREO and
0.09% to 0.48% ZrO2. The TREO values ranged from 5% to 20%
HREO.
PLY-S-10 (CD Zone) - Located 2 kilometres southwest of the
PLY-S-05 anomaly, this mineralization is described as a minimum 3
meter wide pegmatitic gossan zone with rare metal values ranging
from 0.19% to 5.37% TREO and 0.05% to 2.56% ZrO2. The TREO values
ranged from 26% to 85% HREO.
These zones are scheduled for channel sampling. Additionally, a
number of other disseminated eudialyte zones have been located,
however, analyses from prospect samples collected from these areas
are pending.
Don Moore, Playfair's Chairman stated, "We are pleased that the
2010 exploration work at Red Wine is beginning to show promise. In
addition to the known historical showings on the PLY South Block,
Rare Earth Metals has discovered three new REE zones so far. We
look forward to the results of the detailed follow-up work."
About Letitia Lake - Red Wine Exploration, Labrador Canada
The historic Letitia Lake - Red Wine exploration camp hosts
numerous showings containing rare metals (beryllium, zirconium,
yttrium and niobium) and rare earth elements (REE). This camp has
many regional-scale lithological and geochemical similarities to
the Strange Lake REE-Zr-Y-Nb-beryllium exploration camp, located
260 kilometres to the northwest. Like Strange Lake the Red Wine
area is underlain by middle mesoproterozoic peralkaline rocks which
are enriched in rare earth elements and other uncommon metals. The
Red Wine REE district is located 120 km northeast of Churchill
Falls, Labrador and is within 40 kilometres of an existing resource
road originating at Churchill Falls. The estimated centre of the
Red Wine REE camp is only 10 kilometres southwest of the western
extent of Playfair's Seal Lake Copper-Silver exploration
property.
China produces more than 90% of the world's REE and has recently
taken steps to hoard its own production creating well founded
supply concerns for the worlds developed countries. Rare earth
metals and elements are used in a variety of critical ways, such as
in the production of magnets/engines/batteries in hybrid cars,
consumable electronics, (Blackberries, iPhones, flat screen
televisions), miscellaneous green energy technologies and military
applications.
Michael Moore, PGeo, is the qualified person who has reviewed
the technical information contained in this news release on behalf
of the company.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
D. Neil Briggs, Director
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