공시 • Feb 08
Kuniko Limited Announces Ertelien Drilling Delivers Sulphide Mineralisation and Assays Confirm High Grade Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Sulphide Mineralisation
Kuniko Limited announced ertelien drilling delivered sulphide mineralisation and assays confirm high grade nickel-copper-cobalt sulphide mineralisation Kuniko's maiden drill hole at Ertelien Nickel Project intersects observed massive sulphide mineralisation. Assay results of historical drill core confirm high grades of Nickel, Copper and Cobalt over 28.1 m @ 1.34% nickel, 1.19% copper, 0.07% cobalt. Ertelien Nickel Project: The Ertelien Ni-Cu-Co deposit is a brownfield site located on the highly prospective, wholly owned, Ringerike Battery Minerals Project, in central-southern Norway, north-west of Oslo. A maiden diamond drilling program at the Ertelien Nickel Project commenced during January 2023, with a planned 1,470-metres in 5 diamond core (DD) holes. The first drill hole, KNI_ER001 was completed 5 February 2023 to a depth of 473.9 metres. This first hole was planned as a twin hole for a previous drill hole completed by Blackstone Ventures Inc. (Blackstone), identified as ER2006-06B, to further corroborate the potential existence of a high-grade zone of mineralisation. Massive sulphide mineralisation has been observed in drill core during preliminary logging on site. In relation to the disclosure of visual mineralisation, the Company cautions that visual estimates of sulphide material abundance should never be considered a proxy or substitute for laboratory analysis. Laboratory assay results are required to determine the widths and grade of the visible mineralisation reported in preliminary geological logging. The Company will update the market when laboratory analytical results become available. Skuterud Cobalt Project: The Skuterud Cobalt Project is located due west of Oslo and approximately 15 km south west of the Ringerike Battery Metals Project. A second drilling programme has been scheduled to commence during February 2023 with 2,500 metres in up to 10 diamond drill holes. The drill rig for the operation has been mobilised, arriving on site on 3 February 2023, with drilling at the Middagshvile target to commence during the coming days following completion of pre-start safety assessments and de-icing of roads to the drilling location. Ertelien Nickel Project: In connection with ongoing efforts to evaluate the Ertelien Ni-Cu-Co deposit and further exploration potential on its wholly owned Ringerike Battery Metals Project, Kuniko has selected four previous diamond drillholes for assay. The drillholes were completed in 2006 and 2007 by Blackstone and selected from the significant inventory of historic drill core located at the NGU National Core Archive at Løkken Verk, Norway. Drillholes ER2006-06B and ER2006-22 were selected from the Ertelien deposit, the former for its historically reported high grade mineralisation and the latter to investigate the contact relationship between the Ertelien intrusion and the surrounding country rocks. Drillholes LN07-01 and LN07-09 were selected from Langedalen due to the presence of notable intervals of mafic intrusions, as well as the presence of sulphide mineralisation in LN07-09 which was previously observed by Kuniko's geologists. Notes in logging data and historical assays also indicated the presence of visible gold in a narrow quartz-calcite vein. For the Ertelien holes, the majority of available core was sampled by the Kuniko team, except for broken fault zones and large intervals of visibly barren footwall gneisses. At Langedalen, sampling was focussed on the intrusives, with a buffer zone sampled from the country rock. In historical reports, ER2006-06B was noted as having the longest and highest-grade intercept of sulphide mineralisation of all existing drillholes at the prospect. Check assays on the same reported intervals have returned a significant thickness of high-grade mineralisation in ER2006-06B, as well as several smaller mineralised zones across both ER2006-06B and ER2006-22 (Refer: Table 4). The high-grade mineralised zone of ER2006-06B commences at 280.50 metres and comprises: 28.07 m (apparent thickness) at 1.340 % Ni, 1.186 % Cu, 0.071 % Co and 0.141 g/t Au, including: 19.90 m (apparent thickness) at 1.822 % Ni, 1.642 % Cu, 0.094 % Co and 0.187 g/t Au. (from 289.95 m); ER2006-22 contained several comparatively narrow zones of sulphide mineralisation, including: 2.20 m @ 0.721 % Ni and 0.205 % Cu from 110.80 m, 1.70 m @ 0.671 % Ni and 0.508 % Cu from 125.00 m. The first hole sampled from Langedalen was LN07-01, which was selected to study a relatively thick interval of mafic intrusive as part of a wider prospectivity study on the Ringerike licence. LN07-01 is poorly mineralised, and the only notable grades were returned from a 0.50 m zone at 237.80 m, assaying at 0.503% Ni and 0.103 % Cu. LN07-09 on the other hand was, like ER2006-06B at Ertelien, was notable due to contained intervals of mafic-hosted sulphide mineralisation as well as reports of localised visible gold. The 20 cm piece of core containing the reported visible gold mineralisation had been removed for academic research and so could not be sampled by Kuniko. However, the remaining core in the interval indicated the presence of a gold-bearing mineralised system with the following assay result: 1.94 m @ 0.641 % Ni, 0.165 % Cu and 3.815 g/t Au, from 139.01 m including, 0.94 m @ 1.142 % Ni, 0.190 % Cu, 0.046 % Co and 6.24 g/t Au. 2.78 meters further down the hole, another sample returned a high gold value of 12.55 g/t Au over 0.54 m, which confirms the presence of a auriferous system at Langedalen even in the absence of visible gold. In summary, this resampling programme provided a wealth of assay data previously unavailable for the two prospects and will be integrated to support ongoing efforts and to identify fertile mafic intrusions across the Ringerike Licence.