Vulcan Minerals Inc. – Drilling Commences at Colchester, Newfoundland

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland and Labrador, Aug. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vulcan Minerals Inc. (“the Company” - “Vulcan” TSX-V: VUL), is pleased to provide an exploration update on its activities in Newfoundland and Labrador as follows:

Highlights:

• Drilling commences at the Colchester/McNeily zone
  
  
• Geochemical soil sampling at the Springdale Project completed
  
  
• Geochemical soil sampling at Carbonear completed
  
  

Colchester/McNeily Copper-Gold

Drilling has commenced at the McNeily zone within the Colchester project with the mobilization of the drill rig and crew. Drilling will focus on further delineating mineralization encountered in Vulcan’s 2021 drill program as well as from historic trenches and drill holes. The program will consist of approximately 1000 meters of diamond core drilling.

Copper and gold mineralization is hosted in several stringer, disseminated and locally semi - massive sulfide zones outcropping at surface and continuing at depth and along strike. Mineralization is associated with abundant chalcopyrite with variable pyrite, pyrrhotite and sphalerite within sheared and chloritized mafic volcanic flows. Increased gold content generally correlates with higher zinc grades.

Drilling highlights from the 2021 program include up to three mineralized zones in each hole. In CL-21-01, the main mineralized zone was intersected between 88 m and 116 m and returned assays of 1.58% Copper (Cu) 0.33 grams per tonne gold (g/t Au) over 28 m, including several 0.5 m samples over 1 g/t Au. Within that wider interval is a higher-grade zone of 2.31% Cu, 0.51 g/t Au over 14 m. In CL-21-02, a 20 m wide zone contained 1.23% Zn and 0.34 g/t Au including a 5 m interval of 3.26 % Zn and 0.67 g/t Au. Holes CL-21-01 and 02 both contain enriched Zn and Au values near the bottom of the holes suggesting mineralization continues at depth.

Springdale Gold

In late 2022, 457 soil samples were taken over the Pine Pond West grid where two regional faults intersect along an oblique splay structure. This area has potential for orogenic gold in quartz veins and copper/gold mineralization. The Pine Pond grid delivered highly anomalous gold values with 10 soil samples assaying greater than 100 parts per billion (ppb) gold with the highest sample yielding 1540 ppb (1.54 g/t gold). Prospecting of the anomalous areas is ongoing.