The company will drill extensions of the deposit to increase the resource, which consists of 1.5 million tonnes grading 2.36% nickel in the indicated diluted category and 547,000 tonnes grading 1.99% nickel in the inferred. The estimates are based on a 7.4-metre average horizontal thickness with a 20% dilution at the average wall rock grade.
Crowflight will also assay for platinum group elements and collect geotechnical data.
Nickel mineralization is in the complexly folded Bucko Lake ultramafic sill, which varies from 22 to more than 150 metres wide and extends over at least 800 metres in a northerly direction, dipping 75-80 to the east. The sill is bounded by granodioritic gneiss.
Situated 110 km south-southwest of Thompson, Bucko is accessible by road, has telephone and electrical service, and is within 1.5 km of a railway line. In the early 1970s, a 360-metre shaft was sunk and 900 metres of drifting completed on the 305-metre level.
Crowflight can earn an initial half-interest in the property from
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