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The Company has now received its drill permit in order to drill the Bouguer Anomalies Targets of itsGraal-Nourricier -
The drill program is scheduled to start in the next 30 days and, in particular, seeks to intersect the base of the hidden magmatic reservoir of immiscible sulfides bath. Past drillresults appear to be indicating mineralization on the side of the magmatic reservoir and the massive sulphides are potentially still hidden at depth.
The property has shown numerous metal intercepts from past drilling/sampling with the best results recording grades of up to 10.31% nickel, 4.9% copper and 1% cobalt from diamond drilling (see details below).
CEO
“The Quebec properties were acquired for their potential to host a variety of EV battery metals including nickel, copper and cobalt with the intention of expanding our current holdings and strategically positioning the Company and its shareholders to take full advantage of the evolving market conditions for EV battery base metal inputs. We are undertaking first-stage geological evaluation of the properties and, as previously announced, we are considering a potential transfer of the properties into another public company focused primarily on EV battery metals with our key precious metals assets remaining in
The first conceptual primary target identified based on Bouguer airborne survey conceptual modelling has an extent of 1200m x 2200m on the Graal-Nourricier -
For the drill program, the Company has retained the services of Saguenay-based Laurentia Exploration, which has an extensive technical knowledge of the regional geology since several members of their crew have already worked on drill programs at the adjacent Arianne Phosphate lac à Paul project. The exploration work will be under the direction of GoldMinds Geoservices which has identified the targets.
Once drilling at Graal has started, the Company will follow up its exploration plan with drilling on the other main first-level targets at:
- Lowney, Lac Edouard South-East
- Forgues East Manic Crater
- Fuchsia-Massif du Nord
- B15 Bouguer anomaly
The program also includes verification with field geology for the second-level properties.
The Company is not pursuing the option agreement on the B2 property as the completed drill program there has not delivered expected results in comparison to the surface sample results.
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Figure 1 – Nickel - Copper Property Locations in the Province of
AboutGraal – Nourricier Lac Suzanne property
The Graal-Nourricier -
This property, comprising 71 CCW claims over 3,947 hectares and 23 optioned claims from Globexcomprised of 3 distinct blockstotaling 1,276 hectares for a combined total of 5,223 hectares, is the most promising target. It is southeast of the Lac à Paul Arianne Phosphate deposit.The property is located approximately 160 kilometers NNE of the city of Saguenay and 272 kilometers east of
Previous work on the Lac Suzanne property was performed by Mines d’Or Virginia Inc. between 1997 and 2001. This work consisted of airborne geophysical surveys (magnetic and electromagnetic) followed by ground surveys (magnetic and electromagnetic – MaxMin) in order to more precisely locate the anomalies that were outlined by the airborne surveys. These surveys were followed by geological mapping, trenching, blasting, soil geochemical and rock sampling. The last exploration work done, within the limits of the present claims, consisted of diamond drilling where 13 holes were drilled totaling 1,473 meters. The MaxMin survey delineated a good electromagnetic conductor over a strike length of over 6.5 kilometers which has only been sparsely explored, with up to 800 meters drill hole spacing or more and the deepest hole investigated at merely a 100 meters vertical depth. Knowing this, there remains a lot of ground to investigate more thoroughly.
The best results from the rock and drill core sampling returned grades of up to 10.31% Nickel, 4.9% Copper and 1% Cobalt from diamond drilling. The mineralization found on the Lac Suzanne property is of the magmatic massive sulphide type where sulphides are concentrated within a magmatic chamber. TheVoisey’s Bay deposit in
On the Nourricier portion, there is Nourricier A (97-01), A (97-c235), B (NB 97-01) B (NB97-02) sector. The hole collar NA-97-01 (
The host rock is gabbro or anorthosite injected with levels of pyrrhotite which give the rock an appearance of breccia. The mineralization consists of disseminated to massive pyrrhotite (max 70%) sometimes accompanied by chalcopyrite (1% or less) and garnet (35%, when the matrix is gabbro, at 45.5 m in the hole). Magmatic mineralization, dominant Nickel-Copper (± Cobalt ± PGE), is associated with anorthositic-troctolitic massifs.
MHY A (97-03) MHY (97-02) Occurrence (
Highlight:
MHY-97-02: 0.21% Copper, 0.22% Nickel and 338 ppm Cobalt over 0.6 m to 22.5 m; 0.12% Copper, 0.27% Nickel and 395 ppm Cobalt over 0.3 m to 34.8 m; Blasting: RT-97-C319: 0.18% Copper, 0.2% Nickel and 319 ppm Cobalt; Blasting FL-97-C 15: 0.1% Copper, 0.28% Nickel and 900 ppm Cobalt (smp689824); 0.62% Copper, 0.13% Nickel and 276 ppm Cobalt (smp689751); 0.53% Copper, 0.09% Nickel and 171 ppm Cobalt (smp689753).
MHY-97-03: 1447 ppm Copper, 5143 ppm Nickel and 533 ppm Cobalt over 0.6 m to 16.4 m; 0.6% Copper over 0.8 m to 12.3 m; SM-97-C-21: 0.52% Copper and 0.06% Nickel; RT-97-C-240: 0.22% Copper; RT-97-C-245 (400 m to the southwest): 0.34% Copper and 0.12% Nickel.
Occurrence of massive sulphide veins.
Highlight:The best values from hole 1279-01-37 show 0.29% Nickel, 0.05% Copper and 0.03% Cobalt over 1.0 m; 0.3% Copper over 0.3 m; 12.65% TiO2, 13.16% MgO and 0.2% P2O5over 30.6 m
The mineralization occurs in the form of massive sulphide veins intersecting massive and very homogeneous units of amphibole anorthosite and leucogabbro.
Highlight:Drill hole 1279-01-36 has 10.31% Nickel, 0.06% Copper and 0.05% Cobalt over 0.3 m, as well as 0.14% Nickel, 4.27% Copper and 0.03% Cobalt over 1.0 m. This interval corresponds to a centimetric vein of sulphides rich in chalcopyrite intersecting the drillhole at a low angle.
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