IMC Exploration Group plc (IMC) announced the completion of its first drillhole in a 1,000m drilling programme at its West Avoca property on PL 3850 Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Drill hole 21-3850-01 has extended the down dip extent of mineralisation and has encountered zinc-lead and copper-gold mineralization as interpreted. A total of four massive and semi-massive sulphide zones were encountered between depths of 159m and 226m representing individual heavily mineralised intervals of 1.85, 5.3, 5.0 and 4.9m respectively.  The upper three zones are zinc dominant and the lower zone copper dominant.  Over 75m of drill core has been split and sent to ALS Laboratories in Co. Galway for analyses. Drill hole 21-3850-01 represents a down dip step out of 40m from the nearest historical drillhole which assayed 9m grading 10.3% Zn and 4.8% Pb.  The (upper) zinc-lead mineralized horizon now has an extrapolated minimum dip extent of 75m (supported by three drillholes) and remains open both up and down dip and along strike to the southwest. Many previous drillholes in this part of West Avoca had not drilled deep enough to test presence of a copper-gold zone underlying the zinc-lead zone.  The 4.9m (lower) copper zone intersected in 21-3850-01 confirms the copper potential of the West Avoca area. The Avoca Mine is estimated to have contained 16 million tonnes of 0.6% copper which was exported as a concentrate that contained ‘payable grades of gold and silver’ (Williams et al., 1986). In addition, in situ zinc and lead mineralisation is present at West Avoca over a minimum strike length of c. 300m. When the Avoca mine ceased operation in 1982 (owing mainly to the low price of copper prevailing at that time) significant amounts of ore were left in place. With the copper price recently at an all-time high, IMC has reassessed historical records along strike to the southwest from the Avoca mine, and interprets there to be a 1.2 km minimum strike length that has either been only partially tested or else has specific targets remaining to be drill tested. At the north-eastern end of the 1.2 km strike length outlined by IMC, historical drilling encountered 13.3m grading 3.7% Zn 1.8% Pb and 5.3m grading 1.9% Cu. At the southwestern end, historical assays include 5.8m grading 0.5% Cu with 0.9m grading 0.5 g/t Au. Widely-spaced drillholes within the 1.2km strike extent have assayed 10m grading 1.1% Cu and 9.0m grading 10.25% Zn and 4.78% Pb. Gold grades of up to 0.4 g/t Au over 4.5m have been recorded and represent a highly positive ‘credit’ when taken in consideration with the high copper and zinc grades. IMC has reported JORC-compliant figures of c. 20,000 ozs of gold, 2.6k tonnes of copper and 7.8k tonnes of lead from mine spoils and tailings to the northeast of the planned drilling (8th September 2020).