Auroch Minerals Encounters Massive Nickel Sulphides Outside Saint Patricks
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Auroch Minerals (ASX: AOU) announced intercepts of massive nickel sulphides outside of the current modelled resource at the Saint Patricks deposit within the company’s Saints nickel project in Western Australia.
Auroch declared that two drill-holes from a current diamond drill program at the Saints nickel project intersected massive nickel sulphides outside of the current modelled resource at the Saint Patricks deposit.
The two holes, SNDD021 and SNDD022, were drilled into the Saint Patricks channel into a gap between the modelled nickel sulphide mineralisation used in the current mineral resource estimation.
Both holes hit massive nickel sulphides on the basal contact, with SNDD021 intersecting 3.01 metres of massive nickel sulphides from 177.08m and SNDD022 intersecting 0.84m from 177.73m.
“We are delighted with the visual results we are seeing so far from our diamond drill program at Saints, particularly those intersections of massive nickel sulphides in holes SNDD021 and SNDD022 which have shown that mineralisation is actually continuous right through what was previously interpreted to be a gap in the Saint Patricks Resource,” Auroch Minerals managing director Aidan Platel said in the company’s ASX announcement.
“The nickel sulphides intersected in the infill drilling has been consistent with our current model which confirms our existing resource estimation and bodes well for the planned upgrade to the Saints Resource, which will underpin the Scoping Study that is ongoing.
“We also now have the bulk samples we require to commence the all-important metallurgical testwork for the Saints nickel sulphide mineralisation, so everything is coming together and really looking good as we progress our Saints Scoping Study towards completion in the June quarter.”
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