REG-IMC Exploration Group Plc: Drilling Report, West Avoca

IMC ExplorationAnnouncement

03/03/2022 10:15

THE DIRECTORS OF IMC EXPLORATION GROUP PLC CONSIDER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO
CONTAIN INSIDE INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE 7 OF REGULATION (EU)
NO. 596/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF 16 APRIL 2014 ON
MARKET ABUSE AS IT FORMS PART OF RETAINED EU LAW AS DEFINED IN THE EUROPEAN
UNION (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018 (THE "MARKET ABUSE REGULATION"). UPON THE
PUBLICATION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT THE INSIDE INFORMATION IS NOW CONSIDERED TO
BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

IMC Exploration Group Public Limited Company

IMC Reports Results from Further Three Drillholes at West Avoca
* Drillhole 21-3850-02 intercepted a 4m wide zone grading 5.6% zinc and 2.1%
lead (7.7% combined zinc + lead) between 143.5 and 147.5m.  Two further zones
of massive and semi-massive sulphide mineralisation were intersected between
252m (3.4m wide) and 273m (2.5m wide). 
* Drillhole 21-3850-03 encountered two zones of semi-massive sulphide (23.0
-39.7m and 202.75 - 211.7m).  The lower zone assayed 8.95m at 0.5% copper
(including 1.0m grading 1.6% copper and 0.95m grading 1.2% copper). 
Associated with, but slightly deeper than, the lower zone is a 7.05m section
grading 0.23 g/t gold.
* Drillhole 21-3850-04 encountered massive sulphide mineralisation from
172.8-187.0m.  The 3m interval between 181.0-184.0m graded 2.2% zinc +
lead.  Gold grades of up to 0.23 g/t over 1m are present.  Copper grades
include 1.5% copper over a 0.5m interval and 0.3% copper over a 4.0m
interval.  Other zones of well-developed pyrite mineralisation occur
throughout the sequence drilled.
* This drill programme, in conjunction with historical drill records, has
confirmed Cu, Pb, Zn, Ag, Au mineralization over a minimum c. 1000m strike to
the southwest from the mapped underground workings. 
IMC Exploration Group plc (“IMC”), the London-listed exploration company
based in Ireland, is pleased to announce assay results from its second, third
and fourth drillholes from a 1,100m drilling programme at its West Avoca
property on PL 3850, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

The drill programme focused on exploring the unmined, south-western extension
of the Avoca Cu-Zn-Pb-Ag-Au deposit.  Mineralisation has now been
successfully traced over a strike length of 300m between the first and fourth
holes of this programme.  Furthermore, historical drilling 700m to the
southwest of 21-3850-04 encountered 3.0m grading 0.7% Cu indicating that the
mineralising system remains open.  This represents a minimum strike length of
c. 1000m, most of which remains to be drill tested.

Drillholes 21-3850-02 and -03 were drilled on the same section and represented
a 50m north-easterly step out from the previously reported 21-3850-01.  The
mineralised section in 21-3850-02 from 143.5-147.5m (4.0m grading 7.7% zinc +
lead) is interpreted as the along-strike and up-dip projection of the 18.7m
intercept grading 6.5% zinc + lead in 21-3850-01 (reported on 26(th) October
2021).

Drillhole 21-3850-03 tested 150m downdip from the intercept in 21-3850-02 and
encountered copper mineralisation suggestive of either metal variation along
strike within the system or possible faulting to juxtapose the zinc-lead
mineralised horizon with the deeper copper horizon.  The section from
202.75-211.70m graded 8.95m at 0.5% copper.  The 7.05m between 210.75m-217.8m
analysed 0.23g/t Au.  From 252m, drilling difficulties were encountered and
the drill hole was not able to test the projected deepest copper horizon.

Drillhole 21-3850-04 tested the mineralisation c. 300m along strike to the
south=west of 21-3850-03.  Extensive zones of sulphide mineralisation were
encountered with the best zinc grades from 181.0-184.0m (3m grading 2.2% zinc
+ lead) and copper grades from 206.0 – 210.0m (4m grading 0.3% copper).  A
section from 240.3-240.8m assayed 1.5% copper.  Grades of up to 0.23 g/t gold
over a 1m interval are present.

Minimal drilling has taken place to the south-west of 21-3850-04 but all
indications are that the Avoca mineralising system remains open to the
south-west.

Eamon O’Brien, Chairman, commented,

‘The substantial amount of massive sulphide mineralisation encountered in
these three drillholes, allied with historical drilling, support the
interpretation that there is a minimum strike length of 1,000m of exploration
potential to the south-west of the mapped underground workings at West
Avoca. 

Grades of up to 1.5% copper and 7.7% lead + zinc mineralisation encountered to
the south-west of the old workings provide optimism that continuity of
mineralisation and further economic grade intersections can be targeted in the
West Avoca area.

IMC will drill test and evaluate the 700m unexplored section to the south-west
of drillhole 21-3850-04 and further appraise the reported historical intercept
of 3m grading 0.7% Cu to prove up the along-strike extent of the mineralising
system.

This release has been approved by EurGeol Professor Garth Earls PGeo, FSEG,
who is an independent consulting geologist and a Competent Person as described
in the JORC 2012 reporting code.

Eamon P. O’Brien,
Executive Chairman,
Dublin, 3(rd) March 2022

The Directors of IMC, after due and careful enquiry, accept responsibility for
the contents of this announcement.

REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENT ENDS.

Enquiries:

 Keith, Bayley, Rogers & Co. Limited  Graham Atthill-Beck: +44 7506 43 41 07; Graham.Atthill-Beck@kbrl.co.uk; blackpearladvisers@gmail.com Brinsley Holman: +44 7776 30 22 28; Brinsley.Holman@kbrl.co.uk  
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