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                                                                David Southam
                                                                                continue to invest in resource extension, re-
                                                                                source development and exploration while
                                                                                we complete the DFS for our integrated
                                                                                Nickel Restart Strategy.”

                                                                                Magnetic attracted
                                                                                to Lady Julie

                                                                                 Magnetic Resources NL’s first drilling on
                                                                                the newly optioned Lady Julie gold project
                                                                                near Laverton has delivered immediate en-
                                                                                couragement.
                                                                                 The company announced its maiden 90-
                                                                                hole RC programme at Lady Julie – adja-
                                                                                cent to the company’s flagship HN9 project
                                                                                – proved two western shears were strongly
                                                                                mineralised with 198 intercepts reporting
                                                                                more than 0.5 g/t with 19 greater than 3 g/t
                                                                                and 12 greater than 4 g/t.
                                                                                 Best hits from the 4,000m programme
                                                                                were 2m @ 5.44 g/t from 29m, 1m @ 18.18
       Stellar hit for Mincor              Mincor managing director David Southam   g/t from 15m, 6m @ 1.79 g/t from 1m and
                                           said.                                1.78 g/t from 5m.
        Ongoing diamond drilling at Mincor Re-  Southam said the result showed the CS4   Magnetic has paid $20,000 for an option
       sources NL’s Cassini nickel sulphide depos-  surface could also extend significantly, with   over Lady Julie until March 17 at which time
       it at Kambalda returned another exceptional   the intersection being 115m down-plunge   it can acquire 100% by paying $50,000 in
       high-grade nickel intercept in January, with   from the last reported intersection.  cash and 300,000 shares.
       17.6m @ 5% (including 13m @ 6.1% nickel)   “It is also our second highest value hole   The company said the initial RC pro-
       reported from a section interpreted to be   per metre [measured as intercept width   gramme would be followed up with detailed
       within the CS4 channel.             multiplied by nickel grade) at Cassini,” he   ground magnetics and soil surveys before a
        The new intersection is 115m down-  said.                               second, 30-hole RC programme tests north,
       plunge from the last reported CS4 inter-  “We have committed part of the proceeds   south and depth extensions.
       section and represents the first result from   from our recent $35 million capital raising to
       a discrete programme aimed at demon-                                                               Mincor
       strating the continuity of nickel sulphide
       mineralisation at Cassini. This intersection
       is down-plunge of the boundary of the ex-
       isting resource of 1.254mt @ 4% nickel for
       50,400t.
        Initial interpretation from this intersection
       indicated the CS4 and CS5 channels may
       be steeper dipping beyond the current re-
       source.
        “The CS4 surface has recently taken
       somewhat of a back-seat from the remark-
       able success we achieved with our drilling
       programme in the December 2019 quarter
       surrounding the CS5 surface intersections,”






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