09:51 AM EST - Alexco Resource Corp. : announced final results from the 2011 drilling program at its recently discovered Flame & Moth prospect, located immediately adjacent to Alexco's milling complex within the Keno Hill Silver District in Yukon Territory. Overall, the drilling has increased confidence in the continuity and thickness of silver mineralization at Flame & Moth, with results to date returning average grades from 16 to 21 ounces per ton silver over true widths averaging 5.5 metres within the mineralized Flame Vein structure. The structure is now traced with confidence along a 500-metre strike length to a depth of 350-metres below surface. In addition, within the thicker zones of mineralization noted below, higher grade intervals ranging from approximately 30 ounces per ton silver over 1.15 metres to more than 100 ounces per ton silver over 0.14 metres are present. Alexco Resource Corp.
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