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Cadence Minerals Plc
("Cadence Minerals", "Cadence" or "the Company")
Auroch Minerals (ASX: AOU) - Drilling Programme Underway at Saints Nickel Project.
Cadence Minerals (AIM/NEX: KDNC; OTC: KDNCY) is pleased to note the update today from Auroch Minerals Limited (ASX: AOU) ("Auroch") that its maiden drilling programme has commenced at the recently-acquired Saints Nickel Project (Saints), located approximately 65km northwest of Kalgoorlie and 7km east of the Goldfields Highway. A McCulloch DR800 diamond drill rig from Topdrive Drillers Australia (Topdrive) arrived last week and commenced drilling the first hole on Sunday.
Highlights:
·; 3,000m diamond drilling programme has commenced at the Saints Nickel Project.
·; Drilling will target untested near-resource electromagnetic plates and possible down-plunge extensions to existing high-grade nickel sulphide mineralization.
·; Drilling will also focus on confirming historical drilling data and high-grade nickel intersections that comprise the current Saints JORC (2012) resource of 1.05Mt @ 2.00% Ni, 0.20% Cu & 0.06% Co1.
·; Down-hole electromagnetic surveys (DHEM) will be completed on all drill-holes aiming to generate further near-resource targets for the next phase of drilling.
Auroch Managing Director Aidan Platel commented: "Topdrive and our exploration team are to be commended on the speed and professionalism with which the preparation for the drilling programme was completed. We have commenced the programme to test a compelling EM target down-plunge from high-grade nickel sulphide mineralisation on the Western Contact. Our programme will test similar high-priority targets at the St Patricks and St Andrews prospects, as well as drill deeper and along strike from previous drilling in order to collect valuable DHEM data that will be used to generate additional targets for a much larger drilling programme planned for 2020. With a great market outlook for tier 1 nickel products, this is a very exciting time for the Company, and we look forward to updating the market with results as they are received."
The full release can be found at: https://www.investi.com.au/api/announcements/aou/d9e475e6-b01.pdf
Cadence Minerals Holding in Auroch
Cadence currently owns approximately 4.3% of the equity in Auroch Minerals, which is an exploration company targeting principally zinc, cobalt and lithium.
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Novum Securities Limited (Joint Broker) | +44 (0) 207 399 9400 |
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Qualified Person
Kiran Morzaria B.Eng. (ACSM), MBA, has reviewed and approved the information contained in this announcement. Kiran holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial Geology) from the Camborne School of Mines and an MBA (Finance) from CASS Business School.
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