Zinc of Ireland Prepares for Kildare Drilling Program

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Zinc of Ireland (ASX: ZMI) is about to launch a Phase 2 diamond drilling program at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Kildare MVT Zinc project in Ireland.

Zinc of Ireland has received final approvals for the upcoming program from the Exploration and Mining Division (EMD) of Minerals Ireland, the Irish Government department responsible for permitting exploration and mining projects.

The upcoming program will comprise approximately 3,000 metres of diamond drilling and has been designed to test multiple prospects, including extensions of mineralisation at previously drilled prospects and a number of newly identified high-priority exploration targets.

Zinc of Ireland said the Phase 2 program is expected to build on the maiden drilling program the company completed late last year.

“We now have a much better understanding of the exciting exploration opportunities in front of us at Kildare, and we are very pleased to be mobilising to begin this pivotal drilling program,” Zinc of Ireland managing director Peter van der Borgh said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“We have always recognised the geological potential of this project given its location within the Rathdowny mineralised trend and 80 kilometres along strike from the world-class Lisheen zinc mine.

“What we now have is the benefit of having compiled and reviewed the vast database of soil geochemistry and drilling information for the project, which comprises more than 650 drill-holes, and combining it with the information we gained from the maiden drilling program last year.

“The opportunity to adopt an holistic approach to exploration of this project for the first time in its history represents a potential game-changer, and we are very much looking forward to putting all our hard work to the test in this upcoming program.

“The holes have been designed both to progress advanced prospects such as McGregor, where there is an opportunity to delineate a JORC resource in the near term, and to test completely new greenfields targets where we believe there is outstanding discovery potential.”

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