Blackstone Minerals Keeps News Flow Humming with Ta Khoa Drilling Update

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Blackstone Minerals (ASX: BSX) has been busy drilling at the company’s Ta Khoa nickel project (TKN) in northern Vietnam.

Blackstone Minerals reported assays for the most recent campaign of resource definition drilling at the King Snake Massive Sulphide Vein (MSV) deposit, which has confirmed continuity and extents of the high-grade massive sulphide core while demonstrating the presence of an associated ultramafic dyke with disseminated nickel-copper-PGE sulphide mineralisation.

Results from resource definition drilling at King Snake include:

KS22-05
6.2 metres at 0.73 per cent nickel, 0.89 per cent copper, 0.02 per cent cobalt and 3.32 grams per tonne PGE from 191.8m, including 0.7m at 1.11 per cent nickel, 4.73 per cent copper, 0.05 per cent cobalt and 18.2g/t PGE from 192.65m;

KS22-15
2.35m at 2.09 per cent nickel, 0.9 per cent copper, 0.08 per cent cobalt and 1.77g/t PGE from 313.65; and

KS22-21
6.3m at 0.85 per cent nickel, 0.41 per cent copper, 0.03 per cent cobalt and 1.12g/t PGE from 70m, including 0.8m at 4.31 per cent nickel, 1.11 per cent copper, 0.16 per cent cobalt and 2.09g/t PGE from 74.65m.

Further assays were delivered for exploration drilling at the Suoi Phang MSV target located 12km west of the Ban Phuc nickel concentrator intersecting an ultramafic dyke with net-textured and massive nickel-copper sulphide veining.

“The resource definition drilling at King Snake confirms continuity of a high-grade nickel-copper-cobalt-PGE vein and associated ultramafic dyke system closely comparable to the Ban Phuc MSV that was successfully mined in the 2013 to 2016 period and is furthermore located only 1.2 kilometres from the operational Ban Phuc concentrator,” Blackstone Minerals managing director Scott Williamson said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Additionally, assay results from the early-stage drilling at the Suoi Phang prospect highlight potential for further nickel MSV deposits within the Ta Khoa dome.

“We look forward to continuing to systematically assess the massive sulphide potential at Ta Khoa.”

 

 

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