Comstock Reports Summer Exploration Results, Preview Project, Saskatchewan

2017-11-09 / @thenewswire

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Vancouver, BC / TheNewswire / November 9, 2017 - Comstock Metals Ltd. (TSX-V: CSL) ("Comstock" or the "Company") is pleased to report the balance of results from the summer exploration program at its 100% owned Preview SW gold project located 40 km northeast of La Ronge, Saskatchewan. These include results from 1,017.0 m in 4 NQ drill holes completed on the southern flank of the Preview SW deposit, continued modelling of North zone mineralized zones, as well as surface sampling. Previous results from the summer program were reported in the Company's September 28, 2017 news release.

Highlights from the summer program include:

- Multiple high-grade gold intercepts below historical 50 m production trench at the North zone, including 3.25 m averaging 87.16 g/t gold in PR17-175 starting at 41.15 m depth and including 1.25 m averaging 220.96 g/t gold starting at 41.15 m depth (true thickness is interpreted to be 75-85% of drilled width; previously disclosed in September 28, 2017 news release)

- Drilling in the southern sector of the Preview SW deposit was successful in extending select zones further south (10.00 m averaging 1.04 g/t in PR17-179; 11.52 m averaging 1.12 g/t gold in PR17-181) and intersecting visible gold - Map 1

- Orientation humus soil geochemical sampling covering the North and C zones defines 3 gold-in-soil anomalies not associated with known areas of mineralization - Map 2

- A detailed structural study by SRK (Canada) Inc. has helped to recognize key relationships between gold mineralization, lithology and shear intensity and has provided a 3D interpretation that will assist in future resource and exploration targeting

- Reconnaissance rock sampling in areas of under-explored historical showings on the property returned significant gold values, including 23.5 g/t gold from the Clearwater A showing - Map 3

"The 2017 winter and summer exploration programs have significantly advanced our understanding of the structural controls to gold mineralization on the Preview project, highlighted the potential at the North zone - particularly to depth, and identified new targets for future exploration" commented Comstock CEO David Terry.

A total of 3,888.5 m in 19 NQ diamond holes were drilled during the winter and summer 2017 campaigns of which 2,111.5 m in 11 holes was completed during the summer program; 7 on the Preview North zone and 4 at the southern end of the Preview SW deposit, reported herein.

At the North zone, new modelling of the drill data modelling has defined three (formerly five) principal parallel structures/veins/vein zones along which the main mineralized intercepts occur, extending 350 m along strike and to a depth up to 140 m below surface; higher grades intersected to date occur within a core zone over a strike length of approximately 170 m. Structural data collected during the winter and summer programs indicates a steep plunge to the mineralization, suggesting good potential for encountering additional gold mineralization at depth, as evidenced by the longitudinal sections for Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3. There is also excellent potential for identifying additional high-grade shoots along and across strike. A 3D visualization of the North zone drill holes and interpreted zones can be found by following this link.

Drill results reported herein are from holes drilled in the southern half of the SW deposit, designed: 1) to test down-plunge (PR17-179) or up-plunge (PR-180) of adjacent holes and to test for southwestern continuity of the eastern lodes and 2) to test the southwest strike extent of the SW deposit (PR17-181, 182). Significant weighted average intercepts are presented in Table 1 and hole descriptions are provided below. Hole locations are shown on Map 1.

Table 1: Weighted Average Intercepts from PR17-179-182

--------------------------------------------------------- |HOLE ID|Zone|FROM (m)|TO (m)|INTERVAL (m)*|Au g/t| |-------------------------------------------------------| |PR17-179|SW|25.30|37.00 |11.70|1.12| |-------------------------------------------------------| |||54.00|63.50 |9.50|2.07| |-------------------------------------------------------| |||74.00|87.00 |13.00|1.96| |-------------------------------------------------------| |including ||77.00|79.00 |2.00|10.48 | |-------------------------------------------------------| |||111.20|117.00|5.80|4.62| |-------------------------------------------------------| |||126.00|145.50|19.50|1.23| |-------------------------------------------------------| |including ||134.00|137.00|3.00|3.61| |-------------------------------------------------------| |and including||142.50|145.50|3.00|2.95| |-------------------------------------------------------| |||150.50|160.50|10.00|1.04| |-------------------------------------------------------| |PR17-180|SW|11.00|12.00 |1.00|3.12| |-------------------------------------------------------| |||31.00|34.20 |3.20|1.20| |-------------------------------------------------------| |||62.00|70.50 |8.50|0.93| |-------------------------------------------------------| |including ||62.00|64.50 |2.50|1.85| |-------------------------------------------------------| |||68.50|70.50 |2.00|1.21| |-------------------------------------------------------| |||115.80|116.80|1.00|3.61| |-------------------------------------------------------| |||136.40|138.40|2.00|1.54| |-------------------------------------------------------| |PR17-181|SW|156.00|157.00|1.00|4.23| |-------------------------------------------------------| |||196.50|208.00|11.50|1.12| |-------------------------------------------------------| |including ||200.00|203.00|3.00|2.91| |-------------------------------------------------------| |||246.30|252.70|6.40|0.67| |-------------------------------------------------------| |including ||246.30|247.00|0.70|3.06| |-------------------------------------------------------| |PR17-182|SW|| ||NSV** | ---------------------------------------------------------

*True thickness is interpreted to be approximately 75-85% of drilled width for most holes; intervals column may not add due to rounding; **NSV = no significant values

The Company also reports that it has now completed a fall drilling and soil sampling program at its QV gold project in Yukon; a total of 904.4 m in 6 holes were drilled on the western flank of the VG gold deposit, 3 of which did not reach planned depth, and a total of 650 soils were collected in three areas of the project.

Metallurgical studies, data interpretation and detailed planning for the next phase of work at Preview is ongoing.

Technical Details - SW Drilling

Drill hole location and orientation details are provided below in Table 2 and are shown on Map 1.

Preview SW drill hole PR17-179 (-45 ?/112 azimuth), located in the southern half of the Preview SW deposit, was designed to test the down-plunge extension of mineralization in historical drill hole PR87-54 and the continuity of the eastern modelled vein loads (Section 1). The hole collared into diorite and passed through felsic to intermediate meta-volcanic rocks from 19.1 m to 26.7 m and 34.0 m to 54.0 m down hole. Footwall meta-volcanic rocks were encountered at 159.4 m down hole. Multiple zones of quartz-carbonate veining were intersected within sheared diorite host rocks. Most of the vein zones are associated with arsenopyrite-pyrite and/or pyrrhotite-pyrite mineralization, and multiple occurrences of visible gold. Modelled vein lodes 102 through 106 were recognized within PR17-179; one additional mineralized zone was encountered from 150.5 m to 160.5 m, below the termination of the historical drill holes on section. The additional zone is believed to correspond to the southwest extension of vein lode 109. All mineralization encountered in PR17-179 occurs within the Lerchs-Grossman optimized pit shell.

Preview SW drill hole PR17-180 (-44 ?/111.5 azimuth) is located 43 m south of PR17-179 in an area of limited historical drilling. The hole was designed as a shallow test of modelled vein lodes 103 through to 106 (Section 2). PR17-180 collared into meta-volcanic rocks and encountered diorite host rock at a depth of 34.2 m down hole. Footwall meta-volcanic rocks were encountered at 135.5 m. Several narrow zones of quartz-carbonate veining were encountered within sheared diorite, associated with arsenopyrite-pyrite-( ?pyrrhotite) mineralization. Visible gold was observed at 62.3 m and 116.1 m down hole.

Preview SW drill hole PR17-181 (-45 ?/292 azimuth) was designed as a 30 m southwest step out on the Preview SW deposit (Section 3). The hole encountered a suite of variably sheared, mixed meta-volcanic and meta-sedimentary rocks. Three mineralized vein zones were encountered, showing a strong association with arsenopyrite and/or pyrrhotite mineralization. The zones are believed to correspond with modelled vein lodes 101, 103 and 104.

Preview SW drill hole PR17-181 (-55 ?/292 azimuth) was designed as a 200 m southwest step out on PR17-181. The hole collared into mixed meta-volcanic rocks and encountered diorite from 272.6 m to 296.3 m down hole. Several narrow mineralized vein zones were encountered, associated with arsenopyrite and/or pyrrhotite mineralization. No significant gold values were reported.

Table 2: Drill Hole Details

------------------------------------------------------------- |Hole |Zone|Easting*|Northing*|Azimuth|Dip|Total Depth| |-----------------------------------------------------------| |PR17-179|SW|510001|6139252|112.00 |-45.13|219.00| |-----------------------------------------------------------| |PR17-180|SW|510001|6139208|111.50 |-44.42|207.00| |-----------------------------------------------------------| |PR17-181|SW|510068|6139043|292.00 |-44.73|291.00| |-----------------------------------------------------------| |PR17-182|SW|509947|6138876|292.00 |-54.82|300.00| -------------------------------------------------------------

*All coordinates referenced to North American Datum 1983 UTM Zone 13N

Soil (Humus) Survey

During fall 2017 the Company collected a total of 243 Ah (humus) soil geochemical samples over a 1,000 x 250m area covering the North zone and C zone, located 800 m to the southwest along strike. Soils were collected at 20m intervals along 50m spaced northwest-southeast trending gridlines as shown on the Map 2.

Soil samples were submitted to ALS Minerals for trace level gold and multi-element analysis of a 25g sample pulp by ICP-MS. Gold in soil analyses ranged from below detection up to 0.86 parts-per-million (ppm) Au (95th percentile = 0.054 ppm Au). The outcropping North and C zone gold showings are associated with highly anomalous gold values including 0.46 and 0.22 ppm Au (North zone adit area) and 0.47, 0.41 and 0.14 ppm Au (C Zone trenched area). The results of the orientation humus soil geochemical survey defines 3 gold in soil anomalies not associated with known areas of mineralization.

The highest gold in soil value of 0.86 ppm Au is associated with a poorly resolved 150 x 30m NE trending zone of spot high gold in soil values lying along the west margin of a prominent topographic and magnetic high anomaly that parallels the North zone. The anomaly is significant in that it lies 70m to the northwest of the North zone vein lodes and may represent an offset zone of parallel mineralization not tested by the 2017 drill holes.

The largest gold-in-soil anomaly anchors a multi-(4)-line east-west trending gold- in-soil anomaly located immediately south of the North zone. The anomaly has dimensions of approximately 250 x 30m, and comprises 10 samples ranging from 0.74 to 0.022 ppm gold; including 4 samples in excess of 0.41 ppm gold. The anomaly coincides with a conspicuous airborne and ground magnetic low structure oriented oblique to the dominant NE-SW lithologic trend. The magnetic low was targeted along its eastern margin by North zone drill hole 17PR-168 that returned multiple gold intercepts; including 0.91 g/t over 3m (reported in the Company's June 7, 2017 news release).

The C zone soil anomaly includes anomalous gold values extending a distance of 250 m to the northeast in an area not previously known to host mineralization. The combined C zone soil (350 x 50 m) anomaly comprises 12 samples ranging from 0.021 to 0.47 ppm gold; of which three samples returned values greater than 0.1 ppm gold (100 parts-per-billion).

Rock Samples

Also during the summer program, the Company collected 14 rock grab samples targeting a number of under-explored historical showings and areas untested by drilling (see Map 3). Multiple high-grade gold values were returned from the C zone, SW zone and the Clearwater A zone, including 5 samples with greater than 10 g/t Au.

Methodology and QA/QC

The analytical work reported on herein was performed by ALS Canada Ltd., an internationally recognized analytical services provider. The Company follows industry standard procedures for the work carried out on the Preview SW project, with a quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) program. Blank, duplicate and standard samples were inserted into the sample sequence sent to the laboratory for analysis. Comstock detected no significant QA/QC issues during review of the data.

Qualified Persons

Kristopher Raffle P.Geo., Principal, and Christopher Livingstone, P.Geo., Project Geologist of APEX Geoscience Ltd., Qualified Persons as defined by National Instrument 43-101, supervised the exploration work and diamond drilling program at the Preview SW project and reviewed, verified (including sampling, analytical and test data) and compiled the data reported herein. David A. Terry, Ph.D., P.Geo., a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, and an Officer and Director of Comstock, has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical disclosure in this news release.

1See this link for the Preview SW technical report;

About Comstock Metals Ltd.

Comstock Metals Ltd. is a Canadian-focussed mineral exploration company with two 100% owned resource-stage gold projects.

1.Preview SW Gold Project, Saskatchewan: The Company's road accessible Preview SW gold project is located 40 km north of La Ronge, Saskatchewan and 80 km southwest of Silver Standard Resources Inc.'s Seabee gold mine. The main Preview SW deposit hosts a NI 43-101 Resource Estimate (see Comstock's news release dated September 14, 2016) which includes Indicated resources containing 158,300 ounces of gold (2.61 million tonnes grading 1.89 g/t Au) and Inferred resources containing 270,800 ounces of gold (5.70 million tonnes grading 1.48 g/t Au), both based on a 0.50 g/t Au cut-off grade. The main Preview SW deposit is comprised of several sub-parallel northeast-trending gold-bearing quartz-sulphide mineralized structural zones, 550 m in strike length and totalling 150 m in width. Preliminary metallurgical test work indicates total gold recovery in concentrates ranged from 90% to 93%. In addition, there are six additional known gold zones on the 853 ha property with only limited drilling. At the Preview North zone, located 2.6 km northeast of the Preview SW deposit, drill hole PR13-163 intersected: 17.98 g/t Au over 5.71 m starting at 10 m below surface, 5.96 g/t Au over 5.66 m starting at 19 m below surface and, 1.88 g/t Au over 21.26 m starting at 29 m below surface. Based on 2017 drilling with oriented drill core true thickness is interpreted to be approximately 85% of drilled width.
2.QV Gold Project, Yukon: The +16,000 hectare QV Property is located in the White Gold district of the Yukon Territory, approximately 70 kilometres south of Dawson City and 44 kilometres northeast of the Coffee project of Goldcorp Inc., which it acquired through an acquisition of Kaminak Gold Corporation. To date, the Company has completed 3,400 m of core drilling in 17 drill holes which formed the basis for a maiden Inferred mineral resource totalling 4.4 million tonnes grading 1.65 g/t gold containing 230,000 ounces of gold at a 0.5 g/t gold cut-off (See Comstock's news release dated July 8, 2014). The VG deposit remains open to expansion and is proximal to other untested sub-parallel structures. The VG zone has similar geology and style of mineralization to Kinross's Golden Saddle deposit, located 11 kilometres to the south. Additional promising targets exist on the QV Project, with potential for the discovery of significant intrusion related and/or orogenic gold mineralization. The infrastructure associated with the development of the Coffee project, including upgrading and completion of the mine access road, will benefit all projects in the district, including the QV Property.
3.Additional Assets: Comstock also owns the early stage Old Cabin gold project in Ontario and uranium claims in the Patterson Lake area of Saskatchewan and has optioned out its Corona property in Mexico (see Comstock's news release dated January 28, 2016).

Forward Looking Statements

This news release includes forward-looking information and statements, which may include, but are not limited to, information and statements regarding or inferring the future business, operations, financial performance, prospects, and other plans, intentions, expectations, estimates, and beliefs of the Company. Such statements include statements regarding the prospects, targets and future exploration on the Company's properties and the continued development of the Coffee project and the associated upgrading and completion of the mine access road. Information and statements which are not purely historical fact are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking information and statements involve and are subject to assumptions and known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause actual events, results, performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future events, results, performance, and achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking information and statements herein. Although the Company believes that any forward-looking information and statements herein are reasonable, in light of the use of assumptions and the significant risks and uncertainties inherent in such information and statements, there can be no assurance that any such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, and accordingly readers are advised to rely on their own evaluation of such risks and uncertainties and should not place undue reliance upon such forward-looking information and statements. Any forward-looking information and statements herein are made as of the date hereof, and except as required by applicable laws, the Company assumes no obligation and disclaims any intention to update or revise any forward-looking information and statements herein or to update the reasons that actual events or results could or do differ from those projected in any forward looking information and statements herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or results, or otherwise, except as required by applicable laws.

For more information about Comstock Metals Ltd., please visit www.comstock-metals.com or contact:

David A Terry, Ph.D., P.Geo.

President, CEO and Director

COMSTOCK METALS LTD.
Phone: (604) 639-4533
Email: info@comstock-metals.com

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