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Four holes drilled in the area near the pit intersected significant lengths of nickel and copper sulphide mineralization, including disseminated and veinlet sulphides and magmatic breccia with a sulphide matrix. The longest intersection was a 14.7-metre interval that graded 1.01% nickel, 1.24% copper, and 0.07% cobalt. The highest-grade intersection was 3 metres long and ran 1.93% nickel, 4.09% copper, and 0.13% cobalt.
Two other holes cut intersections of 1.3 and 10.8 metres, with nickel grades around 1% and copper grades just below 2%.
Of nine holes drilled on a 700-metre-long electromagnetic anomaly south of the old pit, eight intersected nickel and copper mineralization, similar to that found near the pit. These define a mineralized zone 275 metres long and 150 metres wide.
The mineralized intersections in the southern area were 4.6-15.7 metres long. Nickel grades ranged from 0.26% to 2.09% and copper, from 0.29% to 1.58%. Cobalt, platinum, palladium and gold credits were also present.
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