Blackstone Minerals Confirms Canadian Nickel Sulphides.

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Blackstone Minerals (ASX: BSX) reported on recent exploration activities on the company’s projects in Canada.

Blackstone Minerals completed a drilling campaign at its Gold Bridge gold and nickel-cobalt project in British Columbia and a review of prospecting and historic drill core at the Twilight nickel-copper Sulphide project in Labrador

Highlights from Gold Bridge include:

Jewel prospect:

Maiden drill hole JWD21-01

0.9m at 1.45 per cent copper, 0.56 per cent nickel and 0.19% Co from 376.7m, including 0.27m at 3.86 per cent copper, 1.63 per cent nickel, 0.62 per cent cobalt,1.49 g rams per tonne gold and 45g/t silver from 376.98m, with multiple gold intersections up to 0.3m at 5.7g/t gold.

Western Gem prospect:

Maiden drill hole WGD21-01

81m ultramafic-hosted disseminated sulphides at 0.21 per cent nickel from 65.36m

Reviewing historic drilling at the Twilight project revealed an intersection of up to 16m at 0.16 per cent nickel and 0.15 per cent copper from 151.7 m, including 0.55 m at 0.34 per cent nickel, 0.36 per cent copper and 374ppm cobalt from 159.15 m associated with gabbro-hosted disseminated sulphides.

“The maiden three-hole drill program testing Induced Polarisation targets at the Jewel and Western Gem prospects successfully encountered disseminated and massive sulphides, and test-work has confirmed the presence of significant nickel sulphides in addition to the cobalt, gold, silver and copper sulphides,” Blackstone Minerals managing director Scott Williamson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“The recognition of broad disseminated nickel sulphide zones adds an exciting new exploration dimension to the Gold Bridge district that Blackstone will be following up starting with high powered ground EM to test for massive sulphide zones.

“Blackstone has also entered into an option agreement over a gabbro hosted nickel-copper sulphide project in Labrador, home to the world class Voisey’s Bay nickel-copper-cobalt sulphide deposit.

“Reconnaissance field inspection confirms nickel and copper sulphide fertility, with the company now looking forward to testing this very underexplored area for massive sulphides with modern high powered ground EM.”

 

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