Tartisan Nickel drills 24.6 metres of 0.71% NI, 0.56% copper at Kenbridge nickel-copper-cobalt project, Ontario
Tartisan Nickel Corp. [CSE: TN; OTCQB: TTSRF; FSE: 8TA] provided an update on the phase 1 diamond drill program at its Kenbridge nickel-copper-cobalt project, Sioux Narrows, Northwestern Ontario. The phase 1 drill program was designed to test the on-strike and downdip potential for additional nickel sulphide mineralization to enhance the size and grade of the Kenbridge deposit.
A total of 3,191 metres of drilling has been completed to date. The first four drill targets have been completed (drill holes KB26-207, KB26-208, KB26-209 and KB26-210). Samples were delivered to Agat Laboratories Ltd. in Thunder Bay for analysis.
Reported in this release are the results from the fourth hole KB26-210. Results from the hole confirm both A and B zones were intersected as outlined in the table below. Zone A was intersected from 762.4 to 787.0 metres drill depth and returned 0.71% nickel and 0.56% copper over 24.6 metres, including 6.1 metres of 1.17% Ni and 1.45% Cu from 762.4 to 768.5 metres drill depth and 2.0 metres of 1.73% Ni and 0.31% Cu from 774.5 to 776.5 metres drill depth.
Zone B was intersected from 800.2 metres to 806.0 metres drill depth. Results were 0.27% Ni and 0.24% Cu over 5.8 metres. Drill core intersection widths are estimated to be between 65- and 80% true width.
Mark Appleby, CEO of Tartisan Nickel, stated: “The KB26-210 hole results represent a significant high-grade intercept. We are very encouraged to see the wider intersection as the deposit appears to now flare outwards at depth. Intersecting 24.6 metres of 0.71% Ni and 0.56% Cu, including higher-grade portions (1.17% Ni, 1.45% Cu over 6.1 metres and 1.73% Ni, 0.31% Cu over 2.0 m) confirms continuity of significant nickel-copper mineralization in this system.
“These results will strengthen our ability and confidence in upgrading our resource and in the project’s overall potential. While we have now taken a brief pause for spring breakup, the company will introduce borehole EM down the drill holes completed in phase 1 and commence phase 2 drilling this spring. We look forward to drilling below the existing shaft bottom to test for the depth extension to the deposit shortly.”
The Kenbridge property is in the Kenora mining district, Sioux Narrows, Ontario, Canada, with all-season road access. The Kenbridge deposit has an existing shaft to a depth of 2,042 feet (622 metres), with level stations at 150-foot (45-metre) intervals below the shaft collar and two levels developed at 350 feet (107 m) and 500 feet (152 m) below the shaft collar.
Tartisan Nickel is a Canadian-based critical mineral exploration and development company which owns the Kenbridge nickel-copper project near Sioux Narrows, Northwestern Ontario, and the Sill Lake silver project near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, as well as the Night Danger Turtle Pond project near Dryden, Ontario.
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