Xander Resources Inc. announced that its technical team has mobilized and arrived onsite in preparation for the start of drilling for its near-term drill program at its Timmins Nickel Project (the "Project") in located in Timmins, Ontario. The Company has begun clearing access roads and the construction of drill pads in preparation for drilling. The drill program will commence in the coming weeks and is anticipated to comprise between 2,500 and 4,000 metres with a focus on the Company's "North Block" of claims, in particular near Canada Nickel Company's ("CNC") recently identified Reid Discovery which has already through early exploration delineated a mineralized footprint 90% as large as CNC's Crawford Project where CNC has completed a preliminary economic assessment only 20 months after the commencement of exploration drilling that indicates 25-year mine with an after-tax NPV8% of $1.2 billion.