Osisko Metals Intersects 10.49% Zinc+Lead Over 22.84 Metres and 12.15% Zinc+Lead Over 17.00 Metres at Pine Point

MONTREAL, Nov. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Osisko Metals Incorporated (the “Company” or “Osisko Metals”) (TSX-V: OM; FRANKFURT: OB51) is pleased to announce assay results from 29 drill holes completed at the M-67 deposit at the west end of the Central Zone in the Pine Point Mining Camp (“PPMC”). Drill hole M67-18-PP-027 intersected 7.96% Zinc and 2.53% Lead over 22.84 metres and hole M67-18-PP-015 intersected 9.48% Zinc and 2.67% Lead over 17.00 metres. Other high-grade intersections include holes M67-18-PP-004 that intersected 8.26% Zinc and 2.82% Lead over 8.75 metres, M67-18-PP-019 that intersected 11.49% Zinc and 5.55% Lead over 7.90 metres and M67-18-PP-028 that intersected 7.54% Zinc and 1.46% Lead over 13.09 metres.

All intersections are within a flat lying tabular-style deposit known as M-67 and all intercepts are located above 110 metre depths. (See 2018 Summer Drill Campaign Central Zone M-67). Highlights are listed below in Table 1 and details are provided in Tables 2 & 3.

Table 1: Selected Drill Highlights

Jeff Hussey, President & CEO of Osisko Metals, commented: “The 2018 drill campaign at Pine Point is nearly complete. We announced our 50,000 meters campaign immediately after closing the transaction back in February and we have been extremely pleased with the results released. We continue to intersect high grade, near surface Zinc-Lead mineralization across the entire property.”

The historical M-67 deposit currently measures 550 metres in strike length with an average mineralized width of approximately 150 metres. It occurs within the Central Zone and is located 14 kilometres west of the electrical sub-station along a main haul road. Cominco Ltd. lists remaining unclassified historic resources of 1.56 million tonnes of 5.1% Zinc and 1.2% Lead at M-67 (not NI43-101 compliant).  The Central Zone hosts twelve deposits containing unclassified historical resources reported by Cominco Ltd. (1988) occurring over 10 kilometres. They are located from 5 to 14 kilometres to the west of the electrical substation and adjacent to the main haulage road along its entire length.

The objective of the 2018 drill program is to upgrade approximately 50 million tonnes of unclassified near-surface historical resources within known deposits (Cominco Ltd.) to NI43-101 Inferred Mineral Resources as quickly as possible in areas amenable to open pit mining. This will then be used as a resource base for future economic studies.

The 2018 drill program consists of approximately 700 drill holes within the Main Trend, a 20-kilometre long, portion of the PPMC that is located on the south shore of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, near infrastructure and paved highway access and with 100km of haulage roads already in place.

Note regarding historical resource and Qualified Person

The above-mentioned historical resources do not conform to National Instrument 43-101 standards. The Company is reporting the historical estimates for reference purposes only. Neither Osisko Metals nor its consultants have completed sufficient work to verify the historical estimates and these should not be relied upon for investment purposes. A Qualified Person has not done sufficient work to classify the historical estimates as NI43-101 compliant mineral resources and there is no guarantee that such work will allow conversion of such historical resources.

Stanley G. Clemmer, P. Geo registered in the Northwest Territories and is Chief Geologist for Pine Point Mining Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Osisko Metals Limited. He is the Qualified Person responsible for the technical data reported in this news release.

Quality Assurance / Quality Control

Osisko Metals adheres to a strict Quality Assurance and Quality Control program with regard to core handling, sampling, transportation of samples and lab analyses. Drill core samples from the Pine Point project area were securely transported to its core facility in Hay River, Northwest Territories where they were logged and sampled. Samples selected for assay were shipped via secure transportation to the ALS Canada Ltd.’s preparation facility in Yellowknife. Pulps were analyzed at the ALS Canada Ltd. facility in North Vancouver, British Columbia. All samples are analyzed by four acid digestion followed by both ICP-AES and ICP-MS for ultra-trace level detection for a multi-element suite with a 1% upper detection limit for base metals.  Samples reporting over 1% for Zn and 1% for Pb are analyzed by assay grade four acid digestion and ICP-AES analysis with an upper detection limit of 30% and 20% respectively.  Samples reporting Zn >30% and or Pb >20% are analyzed by traditional titration.

Table 2: Composite Assay Results

Table 3: Drill hole collar locations (UTM NAD83 zone 11)

About Osisko Metals

Osisko Metals is a Canadian exploration and development company creating value in the base metal space with a focus on zinc mineral assets. The Company controls Canada’s two premier zinc mining camps, namely the Pine Point Mining Camp (“PPMC”) located in the Northwest Territories, at which it expects to convert the near surface, historical, unclassified historical resource targeting 50Mt at approximately 5% Zinc + Lead; and the Bathurst Mining Camp (“BMC”), located in northern New Brunswick, where it is focused on converting and developing the historical resource found at the Key Anacon project. The Company is currently completing 100,000 metres of drilling at both camps. In Québec, the Company owns 42,000 hectares that cover 12 grass-root zinc targets that will be selectively advanced through exploration. In parallel, Osisko Metals is monitoring several base metal-oriented peers for opportunities.  

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