In its third year, North American Nickel’s Maniitsoq drill campaign casts a wider net – by Henry Lazenby (MiningWeekly.com – August 30, 2017)

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VANCOUVER (miningweekly.com) – Drilling productivity at base metals explorer North American Nickel’s (NAN’s) Maniitsoq project, in south-west Greenland, has been lower than expected, prompting the company to add another drill rig and extend the drilling programme by two weeks to late September, to achieve as many metres as possible.

The TSX-V-listed junior is entering its third year of a strategic drilling campaign at its flagship nickel/copper/cobalt/platinum group metals project, focusing on step-out drilling at the Imiak Hill Complex (IHC), Fossilik and P-013SE.

The programme makes use of borehole electromagnetic surveys, surface induced polarisation geophysical surveys, mapping, structural geological studies and three-dimensional modelling.

The company advised in a statement on Wednesday that step-out drilling had been completed at the P-013 SE target and was ongoing at the IHC and Fossilik area. The company has completed 5 378 m in fifteen holes, as well as one hole extension up to last Friday, out of the total 11 000 m planned programme.

However, the company expects it will only complete about 9 000 m to 9 500 m of drilling.
This year, NAN started using a Greenland-based sample preparation laboratory, located in the capital of Nuuk, in the hope that it would speed up assay reporting.

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