Murchison Minerals Ltd. announced that the Company is planning a minimum 10-hole, 5,000 metre diamond drilling program, to begin in February of this year, on its wholly owned Brabant-McKenzie zinc­copper property located near the community of Brabant Lake, Saskatchewan, 175 kilometres northeast of La Ronge Saskatchewan. The drill program follows the recent completion of a five borehole electromagnetic (BHEM) and low-level helicopter borne, B Field electromagnetic (Heli-SAM) geophysical program. The geophysics surveys successfully identified new conductors proximal to the Brabant-McKenzie deposit coincident with the Deposit extending to 1,000 metre depth as well as two new significant electromagnetic conductors located laterally and at depth relative to the Deposit. The drill program is based on the newly acquired BHEM and Heli-SAM data coupled with a new geological interpretation of the Deposit. The BHEM surveys focused on the periphery of the upper and lower main mineralized zones (together the “Main Zone”) of the Deposit. The survey was successful in identifying numerous conductive electromagnetic plates that are coincident with thicker zones of the Deposit and areas with little or no testing by previous drilling immediately adjacent to the Main Zone. The subsequent 120-line kilometre Heli-SAM survey was conducted over and along strike of the Deposit. The survey was designed to detect more conductive pyrrhotite rich zones at greater depths than was previously identified with historic airborne, ground and BHEM techniques. Interpretation of the data suggests that the Deposit has a down dip extent of approximately 1,000 metres while historic drilling of the Deposit has identified VMS style mineralization to a current down dip depth extent of 520 metres. Results also indicate that in addition to the Deposit conductor, two new large discrete conductors have been identified approximately 1.5 kilometres southwest (SW Conductor) and 1.4 kilometres due south (South Conductor) of the Deposit.