Fathom Nickel (CSE:FNI) has mobilised a geology team to conduct an additional prospecting program at the Gochager Lake Project in Saskatchewan, Canada following a wildfire exposing another outcrop.
While actively receiving initial soil geochemistry results up until around mid-October, the company will conduct further prospecting and portable x-ray fluorescence (pXRF) rock geochemistry activities on the newly exposed outcrop.
The footprint hosts ultramafic rock types that are anomalous to the rock geochemistry apparent up to 1.4km along strike.
CEO Ian Fraser explains that a recent trip to the Gochager Lake Project revealed the extent of the wildfire, causing outcrop exposure.
“The wildfire has exposed more of the favourable gabbro unit in areas previously prospected and, importantly, in areas where thick forest and overburden cover made prospecting very difficult,” Fraser says.
“Our chip sampling pXRF methodology has been very successful in identifying more of the favourable gabbro-pyroxenite units (host to the historic Gochager Lake deposit) along strike to the east-northeast.”
The Gochager Project hosts a historical nickel, copper, and cobalt deposit.
“We are confident this program will add more definition to the expanded footprint and expand the favourable gabbro-pyroxenite units further along strike,” Fraser adds.
As reported by Mining.com.au, the company is looking towards jumping into a potential partnership or investment with a North American or Australian major, after further refining exploration targets.
Fathom Nickel is an explorer focused on uncovering nickel discoveries to advance North America’s supply of critical minerals needed for the global green energy transition.
Write to Maddison Elliott at Mining.com.au
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