{"id":1176743,"date":"2020-04-07T17:10:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1019662"},"modified":"2020-04-07T17:10:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:10:33","slug":"canada-nickel-discovers-palladium-platinum-zone-at-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1176743","title":{"rendered":"Canada Nickel discovers palladium-platinum zone at Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada Nickel\u00a0(CVE: CNC) has discovered a palladium and platinum-bearing zone, situated to the north of the nickel-cobalt deposit within its wholly-owned Crawford project in Ontario. <\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Five holes intersected this zone, returning intercepts that include 7.5 metres of 1.7 g\/t palladium and platinum as well as 13.5 metres of 0.8 g\/t palladium and platinum. Drilling traced the zone over 600 metres of strike and from the bedrock contact down to a depth of 500 metres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe discovery of this new near-surface multi-gram palladium-platinum zone sitting parallel to Crawford\u2019s existing nickel-cobalt-palladium resource further underscores Crawford\u2019s significant potential and provides additional optionality to unlock value for shareholders,\u201d Mark Selby, the company\u2019s chairman and CEO, said in a release. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p> Drilling has traced the mineralized structure at Crawford over a strike length of 1.7 km <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWith less than 20% of the main structure drilled and multiple targets on the property, we look forward to the next phase of exploration where we will begin to explore the main nickel-cobalt-palladium and PGM zone across the 8 km strike length of the structure,\u201d Selby said. <\/p>\n<p>Drilling to date has traced the mineralized structure at Crawford over a strike length of 1.7 km.<\/p>\n<p>Canada Nickel also released the results of three holes targeting nickel-cobalt mineralization: one of these intercepted 317 metres of 0.22% nickel and 0.003% cobalt, extending the higher-grade zone at Crawford by 130 metres westward.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the company&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/news\/nickel-cobalt-canada-nickel-tables-maiden-crawford-resource\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">tabled a maiden resource estimate for Crawford<\/a>, with 600.4 million tonnes in the measured and indicated category grading 0.25% nickel and 0.013% cobalt for a total of 1.53 million tonnes of nickel and 78,000 tonnes cobalt. <\/p>\n<p>Additional inferred resources stand at 310.5 million tonnes grading 0.23% nickel and 0.013% cobalt. The deposit includes a higher-grade core with 262.8 million tonnes in the measured and indicated category at 0.31% nickel and 0.013% cobalt and 66.4 million inferred tonnes at 0.29% nickel and 0.013% cobalt.<\/p>\n<p>The Crawford project is nearby&nbsp;Glencore\u2019s&nbsp;Kidd operations, one of the world\u2019s deepest base metals mines.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article first appeared in the&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Canadian Mining<br \/>\nJournal<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five holes intersected this zone, returning intercepts that include 7.5 metres of 1.7 g\/t palladium and platinum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176744,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176743\/revisions\/1176744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}