공지 • Nov 29
EV NICKEL INC. Announces Additional Assay Results from 4 More Holes of Phase 3 Drilling Program Targeting Large-Scale Nickel Target in Northeast of its Shaw Dome Project
EV NICKEL INC. announced the additional assay results, from 4 more holes of the Phase 3 Drilling program targeting the Large-Scale nickel target in the northeast of its Shaw Dome Project, referred to as the Carman-Langmuir or, CarLang Area. These assays continue to confirm the new CarLang A Zone as a potential Large-Scale nickel prospect. Based upon airborne geophysical surveys and known surface exposures of dunitic outcrops, the CarLang Area is interpreted to host >10km of prospective strike length of prospective dunite, and the completed Phase 3 drilling identified the CarLang A Zone, covering 1.4km of the interpreted strike length, or approx. 15% of the total potential. The dunitic body forming the CarLang A Zone has interpreted widths that range from approximately 400 metres to greater than 500 metres based upon the Phase 3 diamond drill program, airborne geophysical surveys and surface outcrop exposures. With Phase 3, EVNi completed 28 holes representing 8,295m of diamond drill core across the CarLang A Zone The drilling was focused in an area where eight EVNi Surface Samples were taken earlier this year, which averaged 0.26% Ni (wt%). The Company had decided to test the CarLang A Zone to a vertical depth of 250 metres. EVNi interprets that the host dunites extend below the current drill depth as indicated by multiple holes bottoming in the dunitic body including 5 of the 8 holes that have been press released with the other 3 holes having been completed along the footwall boundary and designed to penetrate fully through the dunites. Assay results continue to intersect thick sequences of dunite hosting large-scale, broad zones of nickel mineralization. The Phase 3 drill program confirms the continuity of the dunitic body along the full strike length of the CarLang A Zone, consistent with the Company's original interpretation of the area. Assays are pending on the remaining 20 holes and are expected to be received through the coming weeks and all analyses are scheduled to be completed by the end of January 2023. Work on the Preliminary Resource Estimate for the CarLang A Zone will begin in the coming weeks and results are anticipated in first quarter of 2023. The CarLang Area has many favourable characteristics including: easy accessibility by road with significant outcrop exposure of the dunitic rocks across the property; recent logging activity has exposed additional outcrop and developed a network of gravel access roads; and the interpreted thickness of the overburden covering the CarLang A Zone is estimated to average of less than 5 meters based upon the recent Phase 3 drill hole program, with a significant portion sub-cropping to surface with less than 1 metre of overburden. When these factors are combined, the Company believes that the CarLang Area is better positioned for any future development and will rise to the top of the areas of interest for large-scale nickel projects. The Company has completed a preliminary examination of the minerals contained within surface samples of the dunitic rocks exposed in the Carlang Area. These surface samples have been completely altered to serpentine with varying amounts of brucite and talc which have been identified as key minerals capable of reacting with CO2 to form stable minerals locking the carbon and removing it from the atmosphere (Cutts, J. A., Steinthorsdottir, K., Turvey, C., Dipple, G. M., Enkin, R. J., & Peacock, S. M. (2021), Deducing mineralogy of serpentinized and carbonated ultramafic rocks using physical properties with implications for carbon sequestration and subduction zone dynamics. The Company is considering a number of options to quantify the carbon capture potential of the CarLang host rocks, as part of EV Nickel's Clean NickelTM strategy. Assay QA/QC: Drill core samples from EVNi drilling at the Shaw Dome Project are cut or whole core sampled and bagged at the core logging facility located near the Shaw Dome Project and transported to ALS Canada Ltd. and SGS Canada Inc. for analysis. Samples, along with certified standards and blanks, that are included by the Company for quality assurance and quality control, were prepared and analyzed at the laboratories. At ALS, samples are crushed to 70% less than 2mm. A riffle split is pulverized to 85% passing 75 microns. Nickel, copper, cobalt and sulphur are analyzed by sodium peroxide fusion with an ICP finish and platinum, palladium and gold by fire assay and ICP-AES finish. At SGS, samples are crushed to 75% less than 2mm. A riffle split is pulverized to 85% passing 75 microns. Nickel, copper and cobalt are analyzed by sodium peroxide fusion with an ICP-AES finish, platinum, palladium and gold by fire assay and ICP-AES finish and sulphur by Leco. These and future assay results may vary from time to time due to re?analysis for quality assurance and quality control.