Class 1 Nickel and Technologies Ltd. announced the completion of the sample collection component of a 287 B-horizon soil geochemical sampling and 287 biogeochemical plant sampling exploration program over the prospective Marginal Series PE (Platinum-Group Elements) horizon at its River Valley PGE Project (the "Project" or the "Property"), located about 100 road-km east of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The River Valley PGE Project is located in Crerar and Dana townships, Sudbury Mining Division, northeastern Ontario, Canada. The centre of the Project is approximately 100 km east-northeast of the City of Greater Sudbury.

The Project is immediately south of the River Valley Palladium Project, an advanced PGE (palladium>platinum) property being developed by New Age Metals. The Company has decided to use biogeochemical sampling methods, a less intrusive method than traditional techniques, to define potential drilling targets and aimed at minimizing environmental impact. The less common technique involves taking samples of plants (tree twigs, bark, etc.) at predetermined locations in a forest ecosystem and having them analyzed by a specialized laboratory with the aim of identifying the presence of PGE and 50 other pathfinder elements that may be concentrated in the plant.

Due to the high solubility of plant tissues this method provides an effective way to index mineral content in the soil and use elemental concentrations to vector on new PGE targets. Subsequently, the collected plant material is carbonized (480degC), digested in an acid (proprietary acid), and then analyzed. Biogeochemical surveys were planned and completed by the firms, ABG Exploration Inc. and GMY Inc. If the biogeochemical tests prove successful, the Company will carry out a more detailed investigation, covering larger target areas within the Project.

In addition, to confirming the presence of pathfinder elements not necessarily detected by other exploration methods, biogeochemistry + B-horizon soil geochemistry should maximize the chances of providing higher quality drill targets, reducing the number of drilled sites, and thereby reducing the environmental impact of the program.