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ASX ANN today
04/10/2007 Solid Nickel and Cobalt Drill Results at Canegrass
http://www.asx.com.au/asx/statistics/showAnnouncementPDF.do?idsID=00766480
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4 October 2007
SOLID NICKEL & COBALT DRILL RESULTS AT CANEGRASS
Highlights
• Joint drilling program between Wingstar and Halcyon
hits solid nickel and cobalt results
• Best Ni result, HSIC017, 14m @ 2.02% Ni, 0.18% Co, from 1 m below the surface
• Best Co result, HSIC129, 4m @ 0.92 %Ni, 0.82% Co, from 18m below surface
• Zones of high nickel and cobalt enrichment found
• Revised resource estimate based on the new drilling data will be announced in the near future
Emerging nickel producer Halcyon Group Ltd (ASX:HCY) has today announced up to date drilling results on its Canegrass Nickel Cobalt Project (CNCP) Siberia, 70 kms north, northwest of Kalgoorlie. A joint drilling program between Wingstar Pty Ltd (vendor of the CNCP) and Halcyon was completed on tenements M24/290 and M24/39. This is the first major drill program at the CNCP since the current resource estimate for the CNCP was prepared by CSA Australia in June 2005.
The company recently announced a heads of agreement for the major acquisition of mineral rights which will allow Halcyon to develop, mine, process and sell a total of 140,000 tonnes of nickel (equivalent to 20 Mt @ 0.7% Ni) as laterite nickel, beneficiated laterite nickel or processed nickel. The Canegrass Project is designated to tenements M24/290 and M24/39 covering an area of 15.4 square kilometres of the highly prospective Walter Williams formation. The current JORC complaint Inferred Resource estimate for the CNCP (M24/290 and M24/39) is 28 Mt grading at 0.7% Ni, 0.05% Co (at a 0.5% Ni cut-off grade).
There were a total of 147 holes, 7,064 metres of RC drilling completed on tenements M24/290 and M24/39 (the best ten results are shown in Table 1 and the rest of the drill results are attached in Appendix A).
- The best Ni result was HSIC017, 14m @ 2.02 %Ni, 0.18% Co, from 1m below surface
- The best Co result was HSIC129, 4m @ 0.92 %Ni, 0.82% Co, from 18m below surface
Managing Director Iggy Tan said that the drilling program has been successful at confirming the robust nature of the Canegrass resource. “The drilling has also confirmed and extended zones of high nickel and cobalt enrichment which we come to expect of the Siberia deposit in the highly prospective Walter Williams Formation”.
“We will be generating a revised resource estimate based on the new drilling data and this new resource will be announced in the near future. The latest program of drill results confirms that we have enough critical mass to proceed to a nickel extraction facility. Consequently, last week, the company appointed Bruce Wedderburn as the Nickel Extraction Feasibility Manager and the scoping part of the study has commenced”.
Mr Tan said that the company’s drill rig has continued in the Patch-Gulch area and will be moving to the recently acquired Monarch laterite nickel mineral right tenements. These tenements are owned by Monarch Gold Mining Company Ltd, but the Company purchased the laterite nickel mineral rights in August 2007. The Company has committed to spend in the region of $1 million on exploration in the next five months.