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Jonathon Naylor Editor The Snow Lake area continues to attract attention from exploration companies intent on finding northern Manitoba's next mine. Toronto-based Rockcliff Resources says its winter exploration program, including a minimum 1,500 metres of drilling, has begun at its Snow Lake Project. Line-cutting and a geophysical survey have commenced on what is known as the Tower Property. Drilling is to start in February or earlier and will begin at the former copper-zinc producer Dickstone Property then shift to the Tower Property. At Dickstone, Rockcliff said, drilling will follow up on a hole drilled last year that intersected 1.7 per cent copper, 0.3 grams of gold per tonne, 0.2 per cent zinc and 6.1 g/t silver across 4.2 metres. Down hole geophysics determined that the hole hit the bottom edge of a large, strong conductive anomaly, the company said. At Tower, drilling will initially focus on the T-2 Copper Zone, discovered last summer in a hole that intersected 2.44 per cent copper, 0.7 g/t gold, 0.3 per cent zinc and 18.2 g/t silver across four metres, according to Rockcliff. Ken Lapierre, president and CEO of Rockcliff, said the discovery of the T-2 Copper Zone, and the company's guideline-compliant resource estimate of the T-1 Copper Deposit, outline Tower's 'tremendous potential...to host multiple high-grade copper rich zones.' On the Dickstone Property, Lapierre said, the large untested, geophysical target gives the company 'the potential to identify significant copper-rich mineralization with substantial size below existing mine workings.' 'We are excited about the overall potential of this drill program and look forward to continued success through the drill bit,' he added. Meanwhile, Troymet Exploration Corp. is updating exploration plans for the McClarty Lake project, located outside Snow Lake. Troymet says planning is well advanced for the 2013 winter diamond drilling The drill program will test for plunge extensions of the Discovery zone mineralization to the southeast, and be conducted by Hudbay in conjunction with its regional drill program. An access road is currently being prepared as are on-ice drill platforms. McClarty comprises two claims held in a joint venture between Hudbay (60 per cent) and Troymet (40 per cent), and three claims owned 100 per cent by Troymet. Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, Hudbay must fund $1,076,051 in exploration costs before Troymet is required to fund its participating interest. Thereafter, Hudbay and Troymet share all future exploration and development expenditures pro-rata based on their participating interests. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange Inc. nor its regulation service provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of information supplied by Rockcliff and Troymet.
