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"I'm alsoencouraged by the strong potential to develop Lalor tickets into an economicgold/zinc mine."Located in the Chisel basin portion of the Flin Flon Greenstone Belt, theLalor deposit is believed to be the largest VMS deposit found in the SnowLake Camp to date. Lalor has an Indicated Resource of 3.4 MT 1.9 g/t Au,20.5 g/t Ag, 0.71 Cu, 8.82 Zn, and an Inferred Resource of 13.2 MT 2.9g/t Au, 34.1 g/t Ag, 0.70 Cu, 8.19 Zn (for further details please seeHudBay's NI 43-101 technical report dated September 19, 2008). In earlyJanuary 2009, HudBay announced the additional discovery of significantgold mineralization, which occurs in an Sade adjacent and separate zone, thatcould offer Lalor a distinct mining horizon with principal creditsderived from gold mining. Six drills are currently turning at Lalor withthe intent to drill 18,000 metres between January and May 2009 to explorethe gold mineralization further, and Sade ticket upgrade the VMS resource.This is the second time HudBay has received the Bill Dennis Award, namedfor a highly respected member of the industry who was PDAC president from1965 to 1966, and established in 1977 to recognize those who have made asignificant mineral discovery or an important contribution to theexploration industry Mr. Gilmore was part of the Hudson Bay Exploration& Development Company Limited (a subsidiary of HudBay) team that won theBill Dennis award in 2000 for its discovery of the 777, Konuto Lake andPhoto Lake mines. The 777 mine, located in Flin Flon, Manitoba, is nowHudBay's flagship mine.ABOUT HUDBAY MINERALS INC.HudBay is a leading base metals mining company with assets Elton John in North andCentral America. The company is focused on growing its business throughoperational optimization, strategic investing, mine development andexploration.
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In addition to its primary products, the companyalso produces gold, silver and zinc oxide. HudBay tickets for is a member of theS&P/TSX Composite Index and the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index.QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROLExploration core drilling was either BQ or NQ size. The core was loggedand mineralized intersections were marked for sampling and assaying bygeologists and geotechnicians employed by HudBay's Hudson Bay Explorationand Development Company Limited (HBED) subsidiary. The markedintersections or intervals were sawn in half by a diamond saw and onehalf of the core ticket was placed in plastic bags and tagged with unique samplenumbers, while the second half was returned to the core box and stored.Each bagged core sample was transported to HudBay's Hudson Bay Mining andSmelting Co., Limited subsidiary's assay laboratory in Flin Flon,Manitoba where it was dried, crushed tickets for Sade and pulverized and a 250-gram samplewas prepared for assaying. From each 250 gram sample 0.25 grams wasremoved and leached in aqua regia and analyzed by ICP-AES for Ag, Cu, Zn,As, Pb, Ni and Fe. Also from the 250-gram sample, 15 grams was removedfor gold determination by fire assaying with Atomic Absorption finish.Assaying Elton John ticket integrity is monitored internally with a quality controlprogram, which includes the use of assay sample standards, blanks,duplicates and repeats and externally through national and internationalprograms. In addition, within each group of 20 core samples, one coresample has a second 250 gram split collected for check assaying at AcmeAnalytical Laboratories Ltd in Vancouver, B.C.
Where metal Elton John tickets assays are provided for intersections they areeither a single assay of a sample of the entire intersection length or acomposite of assays calculated from interval weighted assays over theintersection length.QUALIFIED PERSONThe data herein and the contents of this news release have been reviewedby Kelly Gilmore, B.Sc P. Geo., Chief Exploration Geologist with HBED,who is a Qualified Person within the meaning Sade tickets of NI 43-101, with theability and authority to verify the authenticity and validity of the data.FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATIONThis news release contains "forward-looking information" within themeaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-lookinginformation includes, but is not limited to, information concerningHudBay's mineral resource estimates and potential plans for Lalor as wellas HudBay's exploration and development plans and its strategies andfuture prospects. Generally, forward-looking information can beidentified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans","expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled","estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates", or "does notanticipate", or "believes" or variations of such words and phrases orstatements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could","would", "might", or "will be taken", "occur", or "be achieved".Forward-looking information is based on the opinions and estimates ofmanagement at the date the information tickets for Elton John is made, and is based on a numberof assumptions and subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties andother factors that could cause actual events or results to differmaterially from those projected in the forward-looking information. Manyof these assumptions are based on factors and events that are not withinthe control of HudBay and there is no assurance they will prove to becorrect.Factors that could cause actual results to vary materially from resultsanticipated by such forward-looking information include changes in marketconditions, variations in ore grade or recovery rates, risks relating tointernational operations, fluctuating metal prices and currency exchangerates, economic factors, government regulation and approvals,environmental and reclamation risks, costs, timing and amount of futureproduction, capital expenditures and requirements for additional capital,changes in project parameters, the possibility of project cost overrunsor unanticipated costs and expenses, permitting timelines, labourdisputes and the availability of skilled labour, results of explorationand other risks of the mining industry, failure of plant, equipment orprocesses to operate as anticipated, as well as those risk factorsdiscussed in the Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31,2007 for HudBay Minerals Inc.