Snow Lake Manitoba

Alexis Extends Main Mine East Zone, Snow Lake Intersects up to 4.38 Meters ...

Toronto, ON - May 27, 2011 - ALEXIS MINERALS CORPORATION [TSX: AMC] [OTCQX: AXSMF] ("Alexis" or the "Company") is pleased to announce results from continued delineation and exploration drilling on the new Mine East zone at the Snow Lake Mine in Manitoba. The Mine East zone was discovered in January 2010 [Press Release: February 17, 2010] approximately 500 metres east of historically mined areas in the Snow Lake Mine and approximately 50 metres from underground infrastructure, on property acquired in an option agreement between 1998 and 2006. Recent drilling, as shown in Table 1, below, has been focused on the delineation of the zone and exploration of its' potential extension down dip and down plunge. The zone lies at the eastern limit of underground exploration and mine infrastructure developed in the 1950's. 

The Mine East zone has a limited surface expression of less than 80 metres however it has been traced down dip to just above the 780' level. The zone strikes E-W, has a strike length of 150 to 220 metres and dips approximately 45 degrees north. True widths vary from less than a metre to over six metres and in broad terms, the zone appears to consist of two principal ore lenses, one above the 320' level exploration drift and the other above the 780' level exploration drift.  Further drilling is in progress to confirm the plunge of the zone at depth.  Recent structural study supports shallow 20-degree easterly plunges to the ore lenses contrary to the typical 45 degree plunge of the Snow Lake deposit. The East-West strike and shallow plunge may be related to folding of the deposit. The Zone remains open down dip and down plunge and given the proximity to the existing infrastructure, remains a preferred exploration target.

Alexis has two surface drills active on the Snow Lake property and a budget of more than 40,000 metres of drilling in 2011. The current program is focused on increasing resources in the near-mine area that can contribute to the production profile identified studied in feasibility [Press Release: November 3rd, 2010]. Exploration will test for the extensions of the #3 zone and the Mine East zone; on new Resource areas at the Bounter, Boundary, Caper and Birch zones; and, in property-wide exploration particularly to the east of the Three House Lake fold axis. A new structural model, considerable compilation and review and a new ZTEM airborne survey are contributing to this work.

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Rockcliff Resources to Begin Drilling at Snow Lake Project in Manitoba

Rockcliff Resources Inc. (RCR: TSXV) has announced that drilling will commence shortly on its Snow Lake Project located in central Manitoba. 

A minimum of 10,000m of drilling is planned in approximately 45 holes. The majority of the holes planned are at the Tower, Lon and Rail Properties.  Additional areas such as the Freebeth and Reed properties are also planned to be drill tested this winter.  The targets include the Tower Zone at Tower, the Lon Deposit and DC Zone at Lon, the DPEM target north of the Rail Deposit at Rail and DPEM and airborne targets at Reed and Freebeth.  All targets will be tested for their VMS potential to host mineralization rich in copper, gold, zinc and silver.  The properties are situated within the Flin Flon greenstone belt, one of the most prolific and the largest Proterozoic VMS District in the world.

Drilling (20-25 holes) is planned to define and expand the known mineralization which has been traced for over 700m along strike and to a depth of 500m.  The Tower Zone remains open in all directions.

Lon Property: Drilling (15-20 holes) will focus on two areas:  The historic Lon Deposit (250,000T grading 3.2% copper, 5.2% zinc, 18.8g/t silver, 0.34g/t gold. Although the resource is viewed as reliable and relevant based on the information and methods used at the time they do not satisfy the requirements set out by NI 43-101.  Neither Rockcliff nor its Qualified Persons have done sufficient work to classify the historic estimate as a current mineral resource and are not treating the historic estimate as a current mineral resource.  The historic resource should not be relied upon) and an area known as the DC Zone which is located 8 km south of the Lon Deposit.  The DC Zone is identified by abundant surface VMS alteration and a 6.12% zinc surface showing located above an untested, buried 600m long-13 channel DPEM conductor.

Rail Property:  Drilling (4-8 holes) will focus on a large DPEM target identified immediately north of the NI 43-101 compliant Rail Deposit (Indicated Resource of 822,000T grading 3.04% copper, 0.90% zinc, 0.66g/t gold, 9.25g/t silver.  Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability).  One hole from last year's drill program intersected 1.25m grading 3.85% copper and 2.79g/t gold possibly along the top edge of the DPEM target.  The DPEM target has a strike length of 1 km and a vertical depth of over 1 km.

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