Intersections Made over 1.2km Of Strike
Blackstone Minerals Limited (ASX code: BSX)has intersected further high- grade massive sulphide Nickel-Cu-PGE at Ban Chang, part of its Ta Khoa Nickel-Cu-PGE project in Vietnam.
The maiden drill holes are more than 1.2km apart and along strike within a massive sulphide target zone recently extended to more than 2km strike, with further high priority EM plates defined throughout the VDZ.
Managing Director, Scott Williamson, said rhe company has commenced an aggressive drill-out phase to delineate a maiden resource at Ban Chang to supplement the ongoing studies focused on producing nickel sulphate for the lithium-ion battery industry.
“Drilling continues to deliver consistent, broad intersections of nickel sulphide mineralisation from shallow depths with average widths of ~10m throughout most of the Ban Chang prospect and broader zones within Ban Chang East with greater than 20m wide intersections of potentially bulk‐mineable grade Ni‐Cu‐PGE mineralisation,” Mr Williamson said.
“We aim to drill out Ban Chang over the coming months and upgrade our resource inventory by the end of CY20.
“We are continuing to systematically test 25 MSV targets throughout the Ta Khoa Ni‐Cu‐PGE district to add further high‐grade feed to our bulk open‐pit mining scenario at Ban Phuc and the KCZ.”
Blackstone’s recent maiden drill holes BC20-06, BC20-08, BC20-10, and BC20-12 at Ban Chang have intersected further high-grade Nickel-Cu-PGE results:
- BC20-06 13.0m @ 0.5% Ni, 0.71% Cu, 0.05% Co & 0.46g/t PGE from 89.0m and 4.2m @ 0.52% Ni, 0.81% Cu, 0.06% Co & 0.82g/t PGE from 97.8m
- BC20-08 9.6m @ 0.84% Ni, 0.73% Cu, 0.05% Co & 0.7g/t PGE from 57.0m
- BC20-10 14.65m @ 0.74% Ni, 0.71% Cu, 0.04% Co & 0.54g/t PGEfrom 45.0m; incl. 5.85m @ 1.62% Ni, 1.47% Cu, 0.08% Co & 1.09g/t PGEfrom 51.8m incl. 0.87m @ 3.32% Ni, 3.89% Cu, 0.16% Co & 1.65g/t PGEfrom 56.78m
- BC20-12 8.3m @ 0.5% Ni, 0.7% Cu, 0.05% Co & 0.46g/t PGE from 35.5m incl. 4.8m @ 0.71% Ni, 0.81% Cu, 0.06% Co & 0.46g/t PGE from 39m
The Ban Chang prospect is located 2.5km south-east of the Ban Phuc deposit and processing facility, adjacent to the Chim Van – Co Muong fault system.
