Gungnir Drills 7.0 metres of 1.16% Nickel and Identifies New Footwall
"It looks like we may have the beginnings of a new footwall nickel target in the central part of the deposit, adding further potential at Lappvattnet. Historic holes in this area from the 1970s appear to have been drilled just short of this new target. So far, with longer drill holes, we have six footwall hits over a strike length of approximately 100 metres in the central part of Lappvattnet where it remains mostly open along strike and at depth. Assays are pending for five of these six holes", commented
The new footwall target was encountered in holes LAP22-16, -17, -19, -26, -27, and -28 drilled on sections 15E to 16.5E (see accompanying map). The intercepts range from core lengths of 2 to 15 metres consisting of variably mineralized peridotite, local sulphide pods and disseminated sulphides in enclosing sedimentary gneisses. Assays from the lower part of LAP22-19 returned 5.0 metres of 0.30% Ni (or 2.4 metres of 0.40% Ni) from 149 metres, including 0.96% Ni over 0.42 metres from 150 metres down-hole. Assays for the other five holes are pending. Notable "ball-textured" peridotite/pyroxenite (previously not observed) with local matrix sulphides was encountered in hole LAP22-28 (see slide 3 in accompanying figures), and may represent part of a conduit and source site for the nickel-bearing magma. Modelling and evaluations continue.
Also reported today are the final assay results from the western part of Lappvattnet. Hole LAP22-10, drilled on section 12E, returned 7.0 metres of 1.16% Ni starting at a down-hole depth of 98 metres, including 0.53 metres of 5.31% Ni at 103.9 metres. LAP22-10 also includes 6.0 metres of 0.30% Ni starting at 109 metres down-hole. Scout holes, LAP22-12 to -15 testing a small area to the north, encountered weakly anomalous nickel.
Assays are pending for holes LAP22-16, -17, -20 to -23, and -25 to -31. All of these holes are located within the central part of Lappvattnet and include mineralized intervals from the main Lappvattnet deposit and the new footwall target. Co-ordinate details for all holes drilled by Gungnir in 2021/22 are tabled in slide 2 in the accompanying figures.
All lengths noted are core length; true width has not been determined. Core was logged and tagged for sampling at the Company's logging facility in Lycksele,
Nickel Resources
Gungnir's nickel sulphide resources in
- Lappvattnet: Inferred Resource of 780,000 tonnes grading 1.35% nickel for 23.1 million lbs (10.5 million kg) of nickel.
- Rormyrberget: Inferred Resource of 36,800,000 tonnes grading 0.19% nickel for 154 million lbs (70 million kg) of nickel.
The NI 43-101 Technical Report entitled "TECHNICAL REPORT on the LAPPVATTNET and RORMYRBERGET DEPOSITS,
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