North American Nickel is pleased to announce that it has entered into an arms' length option agreement with certain parties pursuant to which it may acquire a 100% interest in a nickel-copper-platinum group element property in the Sudbury area. The Wahnapitae Intrusive Complex property comprises 10 unpatented claims that cover an area measuring 3 km by 2 km of the central portion of the Complex. Access to the property is [...]
North American Nickel is pleased to announce the engagement of Peter Grandich to provide investor relations and a communications program for the Company for a period of one year, subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval. Peter Grandich is the Managing Member of Grandich Publications, LLC which publishes The Grandich Letter (first published in 1984) and provides coverage of the metals and mining industry. Mr. Grandich also [...]
North American Nickel is pleased to announce that it has received notification that its application for an exploration licence covering 142 square kilometres in the centre of the highly prospective Greenland Norite Belt (GNB) has been approved by the Greenland Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum (see Image 1). It is expected that the new licence will be issued within approximately one month.
North American Nickel is pleased to announce that the three-dimensional modelling of SkyTEM helicopter time domain electromagnetic (EM) data collected last fall over parts of its Maniitsoq project in southwest Greenland is complete and has identified three high priority targets for follow-up this summer. Details on each are discussed in the sections below.
North American Nickel is pleased to announce that it has engaged Freeform Communications of Vancouver, BC, Canada to perform corporate communications and investor relations services for the company, subject to exchange approval. Freeform has been retained to assist the company with a strategic mix of corporate communications and investor relations services in order to increase investor awareness, and introduce the company [...]
North American Nickel is pleased to announce the results from its 1,500 metre drill program, recently completed at the Company's Post Creek property located in the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, near Quadra-FNX's Podolsky nickel-copper-PGM Mine. This initial drill program was designed to test several ground geophysical InfiniTEM electro-magnetic targets associated with the
North American Nickel is pleased to provide details comparing the electromagnetic (EM) results from its recently completed SkyTEM helicopter-borne survey and those from a 1995 vintage GeoTEM fixed-wing survey. The images provided below show that the SkyTEM geophysical system is detecting conductors not seen before and is also resolving previously known EM anomalies in much greater detail. These results have met or [...]
North American Nickel is pleased to announce that the helicopter time domain electromagnetic (TEM) and magnetic surveys flown in October over selected parts of its Maniitsoq project detected 25 conductive target zones. Seven are ranked high priority and include an 850 metre-long untested conductor situated near exposures of norite, a type of rock associated with high grade nickel-copper mineralization in the Maniitsoq [...]
North American Nickel is pleased to announce that the 1,500 m drill program targeting modeled plates derived from a ground EM survey undertaken by Abitibi Geophysics that was initiated September 14, 2011 was completed October 8, 2011. A drill summary is provided in Table 1. Drilling was done by Chenier Drilling Services. The targets tested are associated with the CJ Structure, a belt of partial melt and quartz [...]
North American Nickel is pleased to provide an update on the SkyTEM survey on its Greenland property. The SkyTEM system arrived in Maniitsoq on September 15, flying commenced on September 17 and the survey was completed on October 6. In all, a total of 2,217 line-kilometers of electromagnetic and magnetic surveying was done over two flight blocks. Condor Consulting, recognized experts in the field of airborne [...]