St George extends Windsor nickel zone

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has received assay
results for Phase 2 of a 2014 drilling campaign at the Company’s 100 per
cent-owned East Laverton property in Western Australia.

St George said the results have confirmed numerous intersections of nickel sulphide and base metal mineralisation.

At the Windsor nickel sulphide prospect, four of the six drill holes completed intersected nickel sulphides while all six holes intersected a thick, highly prospective komatiite channel, which the company explained hosts this mineralisation.

According to St George these results illustrate the thick ultramafic sequences encountered by drilling, and the higher grade nickel sulphide intervals within those units.

These include:

WINRC004
89 metres at 0.2 per cent nickel from 57 metres, including 2m at 0.4 per cent nickel from 122m;

WINRC005
147m at 0.25 per cent nickel from 124m, including 7m at 0.34 per cent nickel from 161m and 1m at 0.4 per cent nickel from 292m; and

WINRC007
90m at 0.2 per cent nickel from 227m, including 1m at 0.75 per cent nickel from 286m.

“The drilling at Windsor has identified widespread disseminated nickel sulphides within a broad channel,” St George Mining executive chairman John Prineas said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“This large, fertile channel is now an even more compelling target for massive nickel sulphide mineralisation at the basal contact or on the flanks of the channel.”

The discovery hole at Windsor was drilled by BHP Billiton Nickel West in 2012, intersecting 30m at 0.31 per cent nickel, including 6m at 0.48 per cent nickel and 2m at 0.62 per cent nickel.

St George indicated its recent drilling has continued to encounter further nickel sulphide mineralisation as drilling extends the nickel sulphide zone from this initial intersection.

The drilling results at Windsor define a large komatiite channel flow with an unconstrained zone of nickel sulphides that are open laterally and at depth.

The company considers tis to be an optimal search area for massive nickel sulphide mineralisation, and only a very small portion of the prospective ultramafic has been tested by drilling so far.

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