Hopes dim at Lac Rocher

It was fun while it lasted, but the party appears to be winding down for Toronto-based Nuinsco Resources (NWI-T) at the Lac Rocher nickel prospect in northern Quebec.

With drilling now suspended for breakup, the junior released results for the balance of unreported holes drilled earlier this year. Most returned no significant values; the others, low or scattered anomalous values.

The only joy came from hole 99-34, which hit 8.2 metres of 0.58% copper and 1.89% nickel. Hole 47 returned 124.8 metres of 0.18% copper and 0.39% nickel, as well as 6.8 metres of 1.63% copper and 8% nickel, though it hardly counts, as it was oriented to parallel the discovery mineralization to obtain core for metallurgical samples.

Nuinsco remains “encouraged” and is awaiting the results of an airborne survey before it resumes drilling in early July. Meanwhile, it has contracted for a 3-dimensional Multi Total Field geo-electric survey covering 9 sq. km, including the discovery area.