NDT drilling near Voisey’s Bay

Vancouver-based NDT Ventures (NDE-V) is now drilling the Voisey’s Bay donut hole.

The Project 61 property, a joint venture with Takla Star Resources (TKR-A), is completely surrounded by the original Voisey’s Bay discovery claim block (the site of Inco’s Voisey’s Bay project), approximately 7 km southwest of the known deposits.

In a release, NDT President Fred Hewett states that geophysical survey results support the theory that the Western Extension deposit at Voisey’s Bay trends southwest toward a significant body of troctolite known as the Ashley zone. Ashley lies immediately north of Project 61, with the southern part of the troctolite extending on to the NDT-Takla Star claims. To determine the full extent of the troctolite, a regional geophysical survey of the entire Voisey’s Bay area has been initiated.

NDT reports that detailed geological mapping and geophysical surveys completed on Project 61 in 1996 defined a sizable troctolite intrusive, which contains large rafts of mineralized, altered and brecciated Tasiuyak gneiss from which grab samples have assayed up to 1.86% nickel, 0.95% copper and 0.165% cobalt. Texturally, this mineralization resembles the Western Extension deposit at Voisey’s Bay, NDT states.

Two diamond drill holes will initially test the basal contact of the troctolite unit at depths of 400 to 500 metres.