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Widgie adds to minerals basket

idgie Nickel Ltd managing director nickel, 0.15% copper and 0.04% cobalt endowment is, because at the end of the
WSteve Norregaard is as bullish on and 1m @ 1.34% nickel, 0.15% copper day, it will all hopefully translate into mon-
nickel as any of his cohorts, but a new op- and 0.04% cobalt. ey for the organisation and increase the
portunity to add several other commodi- At the time of print, the infill RC and dia- viability of our resources.”
ties to the company’s Mt Edwards project mond drilling at Gillett was continuing for The latest drill results also indicate
in Western Australia has him eager for the a resource update which Norregaard was strong grade continuity as well as min-
next step in exploration. hopeful of delivering to the market by the eralisation remaining open to the north,
During a drilling programme to upgrade end of quarter. south and down-dip.
the project’s resource at the Gillett target, Widgie completed 66 RC drillholes and Norregaard said the next steps with the
Widgie unearthed positive assay results 21 diamond holes for more than 14,000m drill rig were to simply prove up the geo-
for a number of minerals often associated and 4,000m respectively. logical confidence of the project.
with nickel. Mt Edwards currently possesses a “We will be interpreting what parts of
“We’re now assaying for cobalt, cop- 168,150t @ 1% nickel resource and Nor- the resource have high-level geological
per, platinum and palladium as well as regaard, although excited about the pro- confidence,” he said. “We will continue to
nickel,” Norregaard told Paydirt. “There spectivity for the other minerals, said he infill drill in areas where the data density
was a consistent spread of those PGM wasn’t losing sight of the nickel oppor- isn’t high enough, so we can increase our
by-products which augers well because tunity during a time of bullishness in the level of confidence across the entire re-
we think there’s enough PGMs in the market. source.
nickel resource there to potentially make “The main game is the nickel and that’s “But what has become evident in some
that a payable commodity which is a great what we’re chasing,” he said. “However, of the deeper drilling on the Gillett re-
outcome. you’ll find the by-products are coincident source is it is indeed open at depth and
“Now will we potentially get value from with any nickel sulphides. So, we look for that provides us a huge amount of en-
the nickel, but we’ll also get value from the nickel but we get the passenger min- couragement to keep on drilling deeper
some of those other by-products.” erals as well. because as we drill this structure, which
Drill hits from the programme at Gil- “For us to ensure we get maximum is 850m long at the moment, I’m confident
lett included 10m @ 2.93% nickel, 0.38% value out of our nickel ore, we need to that will extend to our other recent discov-
copper and 0.07% cobalt, 6m @ 1.28% make sure we know what the by-product ery of Gillett North some 350m away.

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