St George prepares Cambridge drill program

THE DRILL SERGEANT: St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) is gearing up for a 2013 drilling program to be carried out at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Cambridge nickel prospect in Western Australia.

The 2013 drill program is designed to test priority nickel sulphide targets at the Cambridge nickel prospect and at new sites along the Stella Range ultramafic belt to the north and south of the main Cambridge prospect area.

The new targets, Cambridge South and Cambridge North, are situated on tenements the company recently acquired and have not been previously explored for nickel sulphide mineralisation.

 

St George nickel tenements overlaying aeromagnetics. Source: Company announcement

 

St George indicated final drill targets will be announced once site preparation is completed.

The company said the drilling program will test for nickel sulphide mineralisation and is aimed at attaining new information regarding the composition of, and structural controls on, the ultramafic rocks.

This will assist in selecting the most favourable areas along the ultramafic belt for further targeted drilling.

“There is a compelling technical case for additional exploration on St George’s nickel tenements, which are situated on the highly prospective Stella Range ultramafic belt,” St George Mining Technical Director Tim Hronsky said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

“Previous exploration has demonstrated the presence of high magnesium oxide (MgO) ultramafic rocks that host nickel sulphides in both disseminated and more massive forms.

“We have reached this advanced stage of nickel exploration at East Laverton over a very short period of time and are now set to test numerous promising nickel targets over all of our 100 per cent-owned tenements along the Stella Range belt.”

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