Nuinsco drills at Lac Rocher (April 06, 1998)

However obsolete prospectors may seem to bureaucrats in several provincial mines departments, those in northwestern Quebec persist in turning up new mineralization to drill.

Nuinsco Resources (NWI-T) has started drilling at the newly discovered Lac Rocher copper-nickel occurrence, 110 km north of Matagami, Que. Nuinsco optioned the property from the prospecting group that discovered the showing last year, and is also staking additional ground in the area.

The 320-ha claim block surrounds a zone of disseminated nickel and copper sulphides in gabbro, which yielded channel samples grading 0.71% nickel and 0.38% copper over 14 metres. Thin sections from the outcrop confirmed that it is a norite gabbro — the same rock type as the Sudbury intrusion — with pyrrhotite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite.

Induced polarization surveys revealed a chargeable zone 900 metres long and 200 metres wide over the showing, and several other anomalies elsewhere on the property.

Under its option agreement with the prospecting syndicate that staked the property, Nuinsco will spend $50,000 on exploration and make payments of $25,000 and 50,000 shares.

Meanwhile, at its Rainy River base metal project in northwestern Ontario, Nuinsco has completed further geochemical and geophysical surveys in its ongoing search for copper-nickel deposits. Nuinsco’s approach has relied on reverse-circulation drilling of the overburden, supplemented by geophysical surveys.