Nine Mile Metals (CSE:NINE) has completed drill hole DDH-WD-26-03 which has intersected pyrite and chalcopyrite mineralisation at the Wedge deposit in Canada.
The hole was collared in the north on the same pad as hole WD-26-02.
Vice President of Exploration Gary Lohman says every completed hole has intersected sulphide mineralisation, and the first three holes of this program have delivered nearly 490m of mineralised core.
“The pattern matters as much as the widths: two distinct massive sulphide zones in our first hole, a new copper-rich horizon in the second, and now massive sulphides deeper in the system in the third,” Lohman says.
“Each hole was fanned across the north flank exactly where Apex Geoscience directed, so every metre of core feeds straight into the 3D model and the NI 43-101 work underway.”
President Jonathan Holmes adds that the company’s thesis at the Wedge deposit is simple.
“This mine closed for operational reasons, not because the deposit was exhausted, and we believe the majority of it is still in the ground, open at depth,” Holmes says.
“Watching the deepest hole we have reported at the Wedge intersect massive sulphides well below our first two holes is that thesis playing out in real time — we could not have scripted a stronger start to the season.”
All drill core have been measured, logged, photographed, marked for sampling at the company’s warehouse in Bathurst, New Brunswick.
Nine Mile Metals is a Canadian critical minerals explorer advancing four projects in the Bathurst Mining Camp.
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