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Phoenix Copper Limited / Ticker: PXC / Sector: Mining
23 December 2020
Phoenix Copper Limited
("Phoenix" or the "Company")
Launch of New Website
Phoenix Copper Ltd (AIM: PXC, OTCQX: PXCLF), the AIM quoted North American focused base and precious metals company, is pleased to announce the launch of the Company's new website.
Phoenix has undertaken extensive exploration at the Empire ore system in Mackay, Idaho, having recently updated the M&I Resource of the Empire open pit mine from 7.3 million tonnes at IPO in June 2017 to 22.9 million tonnes, with a corresponding increase in in-situ value of 382%. Additionally, the Company increased its land package from 3.31 square kilometres to 23.14 square kilometres to include three past producing mines, Horseshoe, White Knob and Bluebird, and published a maiden Inferred Resource of 103,000 tonnes at its new discovery, Red Star. The Company begins its transition from an explorer and developer to become a producer as it advances the Empire open pit mine.
The new website can be accessed at www.phoenixcopperlimited.com.
Contacts
For further information please visit www.phoenixcopperlimited.com or contact:
Phoenix Copper Limited | Ryan McDermott Dennis Thomas Richard Wilkins | Tel: +1 208 954 7039 Tel: +44 7827 290 849 Tel: +44 7590 216 657 |
SP Angel (Nominated Adviser) | David Hignell / Caroline Rowe | Tel: +44 20 3470 0470 |
Brandon Hill Capital (Joint Broker) | Jonathan Evans / Oliver Stansfield
| Tel: +44 20 3463 5000 |
WH Ireland (Joint Broker) | Harry Ansell / Adam Pollock / Katy Mitchell | Tel: +44 207 2201666 |
EAS Advisors (US Corporate Adviser) | Matt Bonner / Rogier de la Rambelje | Tel: +1 (646) 495-2225 |
Blytheweigh(Financial PR) | Tim Blythe / Megan Ray | Tel: +44 20 7138 3204 |
Notes
Phoenix Copper Limited is a North American focused, base and precious metal explorer and developer, which has carried out a drilling programme and generated a copper, gold, silver and zinc resource on which it is carrying out a feasibility study to bring the historically producing Empire Mine in Idaho, USA, back into production. It is also evaluating the silver and gold resources around three other past producing mines within the 23 km2 Empire claims block as well as cobalt in two claims blocks north of Empire in Idaho.
Phoenix's primary operations are focused near Mackay, Idaho in the Alder Creek mining district. This district includes the historical Empire, Horseshoe, White Knob and Blue Bird Mines, past producers of copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead and tungsten from underground mines in the first half of the twentieth century. Additionally, the district includes Navarre Creek a Carlin-trend gold discovery which hosts a 6.1 km gold strike length within a 9.8 km² area.
Phoenix acquired an 80% interest in the historical Empire Mine property in 2017 and, based on a total of 320 drill holes, an oxide resource was completed in late 2017. A NI 43-101 compliant PEA (preliminary economic assessment) for an open pit heap leach solvent extraction and electrowinning ("SX-EW") mine was completed in April 2018. In 2018 a further 8,600 metres in 93 holes was completed to upgrade the oxide resources, provide samples for ongoing metallurgical test work, geotechnical and hydrological studies and condemnation drilling for the heap leach pad site, waste dump and plant site. An updated NI 43-101 compliant resource was completed in early May 2020 and October 2020 for all metals. Present contained metal in all NI 43-101 compliant categories of resources, measured, indicated and inferred, stand at 355,523 ounces of gold, 129,641 tonnes of copper, 10,133,772 ounces of silver and 58,440 tonnes of zinc.
Since acquiring the Empire project, Phoenix has increased the claim area from 818 acres to 5,717 acres, mainly to the northwest and west, and in so doing has increased the potential for additional oxide and sulphide copper resources, as well as the potential for stand-alone gold and silver resources, along a strike length of approximately 5.4 km towards the other brownfield mines of the Horseshoe, White Knob and Blue Bird Mines now within the property boundary. In particular, a new discovery at Red Star, 330 metres north west of the Empire Mine proposed open pit, has revealed sulphide ore and from three shallow exploration drill holes a NI 43-101 compliant maiden resource of 1.6 million silver equivalent ounces was reported.
At Empire, it is estimated that less than 1% of the potential ore system has been explored to date and, accordingly, there is significant opportunity to increase the resource through phased exploration.
More details on the Company, its assets and its objectives can be found on PXC's website at www.phoenixcopperlimited.com.