The company has recently added a second drill rig to Decar to drill off the Baptiste nickel-iron alloy zone to at least a NI43-101 inferred resource category.
Decar is a greenfield discovery of nickel mineralization in the form of a naturally occurring nickel-iron alloy, with no associated sulphides.
The target at Decar is a bulk-tonnage, open-pittable nickel deposit on a mining scale equivalent to that of the large open-pit copper porphyry mines operating in British Columbia.
The 2011 drilling program is delineating the Baptiste zone over a targeted 2,500-by-700m area at 200m centres and to a planned depth of 300m downhole.
A total of 47 holes have been proposed for this year’s delineation drilling campaign on Baptiste, which will be weather dependent, with six holes completed to date.
One or two of the planned drill holes into the central part of Baptiste will test the extent of mineralization to a depth of 600m.
Drilling at Decar will also test a number of highly prospective nickel-iron alloy targets defined by surface rock sampling and geophysical surveys.
