Alianza Minerals Mobilizes Crew for Horsethief Drilling Program

2020-05-20 / @thenewswire

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Vancouver, B.C., - TheNewswire - May 20, 2020 - Alianza Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:ANZ) (OTC:TARSF) (“Alianza” or the “Company”) reports that crews have mobilized to commence a reverse-circulation (“RC”) drilling program at the Horsethief Gold Property, Nevada, funded by partner Hochschild Mining (US), a subsidiary of Hochschild Mining PLC (“Hochschild”, LSE:HOC). Hochschild holds an option to earn a 60% interest in the project by funding exploration expenditures of US$5 million over 5.5 years.

Horsethief is located 16 miles (25 km) east of the historic mining town of Pioche, NV. The current Notice of Intent (“NOI”), recently approved by the United States Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”), allows for up to 3,000 metres of drilling in ten holes.

Crews are on site preparing drill pads and access to the target areas in advance of the drill arriving on site. The drill rig is scheduled to arrive on or about May 25 and the program is expected to be completed near the end of June. The program will be conducted with the safety of its employees, contractors and subcontractors as a priority and includes updated health and safety procedures in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Management is confident that with these refined health and safety protocols and adherence to local and regional governmental recommendations on travel and conduct, the Horsethief RC drill program can be executed safely.

“The 2020 program will test the contact of Cambrian and Ordovician-age stratigraphy for gold mineralization at the five target areas identified to-date at Horsethief,” stated Jason Weber, P.Geo., President and CEO of Alianza. “This program will focus on the favourable stratigraphy at the Horsethief North and South areas, where prior drilling was too shallow to test the contact. New targets such as the Thoroughbred, Mustang and Stallion targets will each be tested with at least one drill hole as well.”

Horsethief Property

Drilling at Horsethief follows a very successful 2019 program that included detailed mapping focussed on lithology, structure and alteration of the prospective limestone and dolostone stratigraphy exposed at Horsethief. Significantly, based on lithological characteristics and fossil identification, this work confidently assigned stratigraphic ages ranging from upper Cambrian to lower Ordovician. This is an important age determination as it corresponds to the ages of rocks hosting other major deposits such as the Long Canyon Gold Mine.

Additionally, the 2019 work program identified a new window of upper Cambrian to lower Ordovician-aged carbonate stratigraphy with significant jasperoid alteration in the northeast portion of the property. An additional 26 claims were staked to cover this occurrence as well as prospective stratigraphy identified in the southern portion of the property.

Horsethief hosts five primary drill targets; four target areas defined by surface exposures of altered carbonate rocks and one target at depth, interpreted from induced polarization (IP) and resistivity geophysical surveys. A map of the proposed drill hole locations can be found below:

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About Alianza Minerals Ltd.

Alianza employs a hybrid business model of joint venture funding and self-funded projects to maximize opportunity for exploration success. The Company currently has gold, silver and base metal projects in Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Nevada and Peru. Alianza currently has two projects optioned out in Nevada and Yukon Territory, and is actively exploring on two others. Alianza’s current partners include Hochschild Mining PLC and Coeur Mining, Inc.

The Company has 104.4 million shares issued and outstanding and is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “ANZ” and trades on the OTC market in the US under the symbol TARSF.

Mr. Jason Weber, P.Geo., President and CEO of Alianza Minerals Ltd. is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Weber supervised the preparation of the technical information contained in this release.

For further information, contact:

----------------------------------------------------- |Jason Weber, President and CEO | | |Sandrine Lam, Shareholder Communications | | | | | |Tel: (604) 807-7217 | | |Fax: (888) 889-4874 | | | | | |Renmark Financial Communications Inc. | | |Melanie Barbeau | | |mbarbeau@renmarkfinancial.com | | |Tel: (416) 644-2020 or (514) 939-3989 | | |www.renmarkfinancial.com | | | | | | | | |To learn more visit:www.alianzaminerals.com | | -----------------------------------------------------

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