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The sun rises on Andover

ometimes a picture truly is worth a massive, disseminated nickel-copper at the project has made drill targeting a
Sthousand words and Azure Minerals sulphides. relatively straightforward exercise.
Ltd managing director Tony Rovira said Rovira said the company is targeting a “The EM survey to date has been a
all that needed saying when he opened resource from VC-07 East in Q1 2022. 1:1 correlation,” he said. “You drill into a
his time on stage at the Australian Nickel “The VC-07 East deposit was the one conductor and you will hit nickel-copper
Conference with the image of a rising sun. we focused straight onto at Andover,” he sulphide mineralisation.
“That is the rising sun over our Ando- said. “We’ve been drilling on it for about “It’s all fresh rock, unlike other places
ver complex,” Rovira said. “It is one of the 9-10 months now and we’re getting very in Western Australia such as the Fraser
most exciting projects I have ever been close to completing a resource drill out. Ranger…no false anomalies.”
involved with.” That drilling should be finished within the Following work at VC-07 East, Azure
The last time Paydirt reported on Az- next 3-4 weeks, and it would take nearly will move the drill rigs to VC-07 West and
ure followed a site visit to the project, east two months to get all of our assays back VC-23. EM surveying has also found a
of Karratha and outside the town of Roe- after that.” number of priority targets for the company
bourne, in August. At the time, Rovira was Rovira explained the lack of soil cover to follow up, including VC-18, VC-30, VC-
eagerly awaiting results from the VC-07 31, VC-32 and VC-41. These are awaiting
East nickel-copper deposit. “imminent” heritage approvals.
Just days after Rovira addressed the “Those are the five we’ll be carrying
conference, high-grade drill hits were initial exploration on, but there’s probably
released, vindicating his previous con- at least another dozen or more that are
fidence with nickel grades as high as on the property that are yet to be drilled,”
3.99%. Rovira said.
Hits include 4.8m @ 2.63% nickel, Just as he started his time on stage,
0.43% copper and 0.12% cobalt from Rovira ended it much the same with a pic-
356.7m downhole and 7.6m @ 2.38% ture of Main St in Roebourne, 1909, fea-
nickel, 0.29% copper and 0.10% cobalt turing a man with a horse and carriage.
from 329.7m downhole, among many “It’s full steam ahead at Andover,” he
more encouraging results. said.
A further 24 drill holes were awaiting
assay results at time of print, which visu- – Fraser Palamara
ally showed significant massive, semi- Tony Rovira

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