Prairie Creek provides permitting update

Canadian Zinc Corporation, a Toronto listed junior exploration company, has received a number of approvals to enable continued activities aimed at preparing infrastructure and road access at the Prairie Creek Mine to take place in order to continue advances towards operations.

The Prairie Creek Mine is totally owned by Canadian Zinc Corporation, and is situated in the southern Mackenzie Mountains of the Northwest Territories.

The company announces that it has recently received additional authorisations and permits required to proceed with rehabilitation of the winter road immediately to the north of the Prairie Creek Mine.

Final authorisation from Fisheries and Oceans Canada was issued July 15, 2008, to permit work to proceed adjacent to the Prairie and Funeral creeks.

This authorisation, coupled with a Class “B” Water Licence issued March 20, 2008, by the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board, and a Quarry Permit, issued February 28, 2008, from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, will allow the commencement of rehabilitation work on the winter road.

Construction crews are being mobilised and work is expected to commence before the end of July.

The existing road, which connects the Prairie Creek Mine with the Liard Highway is approximately 175 kilometres long. The road was first constructed in 1980 and was previously used to transport more than 800 loads of equipment, material and fuel to the Prairie Creek site.

Under a Land Use Permit dated April 10, 2007, issued by the MVLWB, the company was granted a permit to use the road in the winter months for a period of five years until April 10, 2012.