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March 05, 2008

Selkirk Metals Advances Towards Scoping Study At Ruddock Creek

By Charles Wyatt

It is very difficult for a junior mining company to maintain the attention of investors while carrying out a major exploration programme on a major project, as Gordon Keevil of Selkirk Metals has found out with Ruddock Creek. This is a large Sedex type zinc-lead silver project with a defined resource and development potential, located 100 kilometres north-northwest of Revelstoke in the Kamloops and Revelstoke mining divisions of British Columbia. It contains stratabound zinc-lead mineralization hosted by calc-silicate rocks, which have been intruded by pegmatite dykes and sills. The sulphide composition in descending order of quantity is sphalerite, pyrrhotite, pyrite, galena and chalcopyrite. Sphalerite is the chief ore for zinc, pyrite and pyrrhotite are iron sulphides, galena is the natural mineral form of lead sulphide, and chalcopyrite is the foremost ore for copper.

Last November Gordon provided an update on Selkirk’s progress as regards underground development and infrastructure construction at the project. But before moving on to that it’s worth making the point that the project is close to infrastructure and only 200 kilometres from the Trail smelter owned by Teck Cominco. Trail needs feed, particularly if the concentrate has a significant amount of lead in it. There should be no problem on that score, to judge by recent drilling results and historical...