Azure Minerals Encounters Further Strong Ridgeline Nickel Mineralisation
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Azure Minerals (ASX: AZS) reported high-grade assay results from the Ridgeline nickel-copper-cobalt sulphide deposit within the company’s Andover Project (60% Azure / 40% Creasy Group) in the West Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Azure Minerals has completed 61 diamond core holes in Mineral Resource definition drilling at the Ridgeline deposit that encountered high-grade shoots of massive and semi-massive sulphides hosted within broad halos of lower grade disseminated sulphide mineralisation.
Results from the latest batch of assays include:
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31.8m at 1.41 per cent nickel, 0.88 per cent copper and 0.06 per cent cobalt from 434.1m, including 12.1m at 1.77 per cent nickel, 1.21 per cent copper and 0.08 per cent cobalt from 434.1m and: 15.3m at 1.4 per cent nickel, 0.8 per cent copper and 0.06 per cent cobalt from 450.6m;
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19.3m at 1.44 per cent nickel, 0.4 per cent copper and 0.06 per cent cobalt from 444.2m, including 6.2m at 1.68 per cent nickel, 0.45 per cent copper and 0.08 per cent cobalt from 444.2m and 7.6m at 2.16 per cent nickel, 0.59 per cent copper and 0.09 per cent cobalt from 455.9m; and
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27.7m at 1.04 per cent nickel, 0.43 per cent copper and 0.04 per cent cobalt from 478.3m, including 4.9m at 1.47 per cent nickel, 0.65 per cent copper and 0.06 per cent cobalt from 478.3m and 4.5m at 1.85 per cent nickel, 0.49 per cent copper and 0.08 per cent cobalt from 492m and 5m at 1.73 per cent nickel, 0.53 per cent copper and 0.07 per cent cobalt from 501m;
“The Ridgeline nickel-copper-cobalt deposit continues to grow in size and scale with another round of extremely positive drill results adding significantly to the known mineralised zones,” Azure Minerals managing director Tony Rovira said in the company’s AX announcement.
“The steeply plunging strongly mineralised shoots demonstrate significant vertical extent and still remain open up and down plunge.
“The central cores of these shoots are characterised by zones of high grade semi-massive to massive nickel and copper sulphides surrounded by a broad halo of disseminated sulphide mineralisation.
“We now have sufficient drill density for geological modelling of the deposit and to complete a Mineral Resource Estimate.”
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