Aston Minerals Encounters Further Near Surface Nickel Sulphide Mineralisation

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: Aston Minerals (ASX: ASO) is keeping the nickel flag flying with the release of assays from a drilling program completed at the Bardwell prospect within the Boomerang nickel-cobalt target at the company’s Edleston project in Ontario, Canada.

Aston Minerals commenced a 10 hole short hole drilling program in September 2023, the results from which it claims continue to demonstrate extensive nickel sulphide mineralisation at the Bardwell prospect, confirming the continuity of mineralisation to surface.

intercepts include:

DDED23-138
173.6 metres at 0.3 per cent nickel, 0.011 per cent cobalt and 0.42 per cent sulphur from 28.9m, including 54.85m at 0.4 per cent nickel, 0.013 per cent cobalt and 0.6 per cent sulphur;

DDED23-140
91.88m at 0.29 per cent nickel, 0.011 per cent cobalt and 0.44 per cent sulphur from 24.54m, including 13.42m at 0.51 per cent nickel, 0.019 per cent cobalt and 1.84 per cent sulphur;

DDED23-136
63.6m at 0.32 per cent nickel, 0.012 per cent cobalt and 0.27 per cent sulphur from 184.5m, including 8m at 0.5 per cent nickel, 0.016 per cent cobalt and 0.45 per cent sulphur; and

DDED23-143
21.5m at 0.3 per cent nickel, 0.013 per cent cobalt and 0.3 per cent sulphur from 175.5m, including 3.5m at 0.62 per cent nickel, 0.016 per cent cobalt and 0.54 per cent sulphur.

“The results of the drilling program we commenced in Q3 2023 have shown that a continued trend of nickel sulphide exists within the Bardwell prospect and has been specifically targeted closer to the surface,” Aston Minerals managing director Russell Bradford said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“The infill nature of the drilling has increased our geological confidence in the maiden mineral resource estimate and this data will now be used to update the mineral resource estimate.

“We will be utilising the updated mineral resource estimation and supporting metallurgical information to undertake further pit optimisation, scheduling and development assessments.

“The recent metallurgical flowsheet development work conducted at Corem shows a clear relationship between not only nickel grade, but sulphur as well.

“Its very pleasing to see this drilling will potentially not only continue to add nickel tonnes in a higher resource classification category but also the sulphur grades have come back to support strong metallurgical performance.

“The mineral resource estimate can now be updated with these latest drill results.”

 

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