Just found a couple of the news releases:
Mr Jerry Bradley reports
The results of the company's phase I drill program and a recent comparative study
from the Department of Geology at the University of Toronto, have firmly
established the Adlatok River 2 property as geologically akin to the Voisey Bay
discovery.
Phase I drilling has been carried out on a regionally extensive, NW-SE trending
olivine gabbro/troctolite sheet. The acute northerly-dipping angles in the troctolite
sheet which were observed during drilling, indicate potential pooling sites for
massive sulphide ores and in fact hole No. 8, drilled at a 45 degree angle,
encountered a zone of basal massive sulphides at the junction of the troctolite
sheet and the tasisuyak gneiss. Assay results have also confirmed the presence of
a zone or halo of disseminated sulphide mineralization. Diamond Fields has
encountered a similar halo both above and in front (south) of its newly discovered
western extension, the feeder system for the ovoid and Eastern Deeps deposits.
Further drilling on the western extension indicates that the strength of
mineralization within the troctolite feeder increased with depth and has a
northeasterly plunge.
Drilling on the Adlatok River 2 has also discovered the presence of leopard
troctolites, now believed to be one of the strongest indicators of massive
Ni-Cu-Co mineralization. The company received a petrographic investigation of
sulphide mineralized troctolites from South Voisey Bay, which includes the
Adlatok River 2 property, by Dr Chusi Li of the University of Toronto. Dr Li has
made a comparison of the silicate and sulphide compositions of the leopard
troctolite from the Adlatok River 2 property to those of the Diamond Field's
western extension leopard troctolites and has deemed them as "similar in the
proportions of pyrrhotite, pendlantite and chalcopyrite and in the ratio of Ni to
Cu." Dr Li estimates "that a rock containing 20% of these type of sulphides will
contain about 0.5% Ni and 1.35% Cu based on the sulphide mineral
compositions. The metal grades will increase with sulphide contents in the rocks.
A massive sulphide ore will contain about 2.5% Ni and 1.75% Cu."
Dr Li's recognition that these rocks are essentially similar to the major rock types
of the feeder sheet (the western extension) of the Voisey Bay deposit leads him to
suggest that the environments where sulphides are likely to be more concentrated
include the sequences stratigraphically below the leopard troctolite, the basal
contact embayment or structural traps, and most importantly the reservoirs where
this sulphide-bearing troctolite magma have been trapped.
The company and its joint venture partners will begin a phase II program which
will include the use of UTEM deep geophysical equipment and a drill rig with deep
drilling capabilities.
Labrador is the operator and retains a 50% interest in the Adlatok River 2 claims
as part of a 2550 claim package in South Voisey Bay with Pallaum Minerals and
Swannell Minerals each retaining a 25% interest.
AND:
Mr Jerry Bradley reports
Labrador International and its joint venture partners Pallaum Minerals and
Swannell Minerals have started the Adlatok River 2 fall drilling program and two
holes have been drilled. These two holes are the first to test the prominent
geophysical anomaly identified by the completion of the time domain and
electromagnetic surveys.
Visual interpretation of the core has not confirmed the reason for the high results
from the above conducted surveys, nor has it diminished the potential for massive
sulphide mineralization.
1King maybe you could help interpret these? Have you ever read
these NR's before? They are from around OCT.96 from PLM.
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