North American Nickel Inc. (TSX VENTURE:NAN)(OTCBB:WSCRF)(CUSIP:65704T 108) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received preliminary results from this year's VTEM Plus helicopter borne geophysical survey completed at its 100% owned Maniitsoq nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM project in Southwest Greenland.
A total of 917.3 line-kilometres were flown in nine survey blocks (A1 to A9 in Figure 1) resulting in a total of 389 electromagnetic (EM) responses being detected. A preliminary review of the survey results by the Company has identified one hundred new conductor zones. These target zones will be field checked in 2014 and targets with higher nickel sulphide potential will be added to the growing drill target list at Maniitsoq.
The purpose of the 2013 VTEM Plus survey was threefold:
1) To obtain EM and magnetic coverage over areas which contain norite and other mafic-ultramafic intrusions that might be associated with economic nickel sulphide mineralization. All these new EM targets are outside the Greenland Norite Belt, which has been the focus of the Company's exploration work for the past 3 years;
2) To obtain deeper EM penetration over prospective areas that were surveyed in 2011 with SkyTEM (the new VTEM Plus system has four times the dipole moment of the 2011 SkyTEM system); and
3) To detail other conductors of interest detected by previous VTEM and SkyTEM surveys.
NAN CEO, Rick Mark, states: "The market has been focused on the Imiak Hill Conduit Complex the past three months and rightly so, as the high grade drill results around Imiak have been outstanding. Today, we want to remind investors that our 100% owned Maniitsoq property, which is larger than the Sudbury basin, has the potential to host the world's next sulphide nickel-copper-cobalt camp. These preliminary airborne results bolster that belief and provide us with a new array of targets to analyze and prepare for in 2014."
From the preliminary data, the most interesting conductors are those associated with the Pingo norite in flight block A1 (Figure 2). The Pingo norite is situated 24 km northeast of the Imiak Hill Conduit Complex, where the Company has recently made significant nickel sulphide intersections (e.g. 24.75m @ 3.19% Ni and 1.14% Cu in hole MQ-13-028 at Imiak Hill).
The Pingo norite is a northeast-striking, dyke-like intrusion approximately 30 to 80 metres wide exposed intermittently over a distance of more than four kilometres. Numerous rusty zones, containing trace to 5% disseminated sulphides, occur throughout the intrusion. The strongest EM response occurs over strike lengths of up to 200 metres immediately along strike of the Pingo norite (conductors P-146 and 233 in Figure 2) and are the highest priority targets in the block. Additionally a moderate 300 metre-long VTEM conductor (P-149 in Figure 2) occurs near the centre of the norite. From historical drill data the Pingo Norite is known to be nickeliferous.
