Prospector Metals Corp. (TSXV: PPP) has commenced its maiden diamond drilling programme at the wholly-owned district scale Whitton Ni-Cu-PGE Project in Ontario.
Whitton Ni-Cu-PGE Project Highlights:
- Road accessible project located within 20km of Impala’s operating Lac des Iles platinum-palladium-nickel-copper mine.
- Property has seen little historical exploration and no drilling to date.
- The presence of low-grade, yet significantly anomalous Ni-Cu-PGE values in rocks with less than 5% total sulphide (disseminated) suggests that rocks with massive sulphide concentrations could yield much higher metal values.
- Modelling of the VTEM survey conducted in 2021 defined strong, steeply dipping, linear conductors, including the Whitton conductor which measures 3.5km in length.
- Subsequent 2021 prospecting and mapping successfully confirmed the presence of sulphidic mafic-ultramafic intrusive rocks, locally anomalous in Ni, Cu, and Pd-Pt
- Maiden diamond drilling program of up to 1000m will target the newly identified, never previously drilled, shallow, steeply dipping electromagnetic conductors (EM) to test for Ni-Cu magmatic sulphides.
- A multi-year exploration permit was issued at the beginning of April 2022.
“We are very excited to begin the first ever drill campaign at our Whitton Ni-Cu-PGE Project in Ontario,” President and CEO, Alex Heath, said.
“Within the span of two years, Prospector has advanced Whitton from staking to drilling – demonstrating the Company’s ability to systematically advance projects in a cost-effective manner while providing significant discovery potential.”
Whitton Geology Overview
Whitton Project (formerly known as Heaven Lake Project) is a wholly-owned district scale Ni-Cu-PGE Project covering 44 sq. km) located 20 km north of Impala Canada’s Lac des Iles platinum group elements (PGE), Ni-Cu Mine, Ontario.
The property covers the Heaven Lake Greenstone Belt, accessed via a main provincial highway and an extensive network of forestry roads that cut through the claim block. There has been no recorded staking activity since early 2000’s with only sporadic work for Zn-Cu-Ag (1970’s-1990’s) and Ni-Cu-PGE (2000-2002), and no previously recorded gold exploration despite favorable geological setting and nearby mine complex.
Whitton represents a unique setting for VMS base metal, mafic magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE and lode gold within overlapping rock types and structural sites with multiple major zones along a NE trend, that are favourable trends for syn-volcanic VMS mineralization, MUM intrusions with Ni-Cu-(PGE) sulphides, and development of shear zones hosting lode gold deposits. All three of these possibilities are evident from the mapped geology and aeromagnetics. Robust geophysical targets from modelled 2021 VTEM conductors are ready to drill, for both MUM hosted Ni-Cu-PGE sulphides at the Whitton target and for syn-volcanic VMS deposits in the Syncline target in the southwestern portion of the claim block.
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