Power Nickel Outlines Drilling Strategy for 2025

Power Nickel Inc. (TSXV: PNPN) (OTCBB: PNPNF) announced the beginning of the 2025 winter drill campaign on the Nisk project with hole PN-24-96 (Figure 1). This hole will be testing the depth extension along the trend of the Lion zone, following up on successful drilling of high-grade Cu and precious metal (Pd, Pt, Au, Ag) discovered in 2024 drill holes (See some highlights below and Table 2).

  • PN-24-047 contains 14.40m of 8.15% Cu; 6.23 g/t Pd; 8.40 g/t Pt; 68.9 g/t Ag; 0.59 g/t Au; and 0.58% Ni
  • PN-24-051 contains 11.40m 0f 2.51% Cu; 3.20 g/t Pd; 19.59 g/t Pt; 14.0 g/t Ag; 0.24 g/t Au; and 0.58% Ni

  • PN-24-053 contains 5.00m of 12.70% Cu; 20.87 g/t Pd; 1.02 g/t Pt; 102.9 g/t Ag; 1.76 g/t Au; 0.40% Ni

  • PN-24-070 contains 32.00m @ 3.62% Cu; 8.10 g/t Pd; 2.47 g/t Pt; 20.9 g/t Ag; 0.45 g/t Au; 0.18% Ni

Note: Reported lengths are downhole distance; true width based on model projections is estimated as 85-95% of downhole length

 

Three Drills Turning in 2025

The 2024 drilling has begun to delineate a deposit that is analogous to Cu rich deposits that form an end member type of deposit found in large Ni deposit camps, such as those observed at Norilsk and the off-set dyke style deposits in Sudbury. The presence of a Ni-Cu-Co-PGE deposit (Nisk), and a Cu-PGE-Au-Ag deposit (Lion) along the same layered ultramafic unit provides encouragement to target additional, possibly larger, deposits within this camp. Power Nickel’s current exploration information is suggestive of a potentially large volume of metal yet to be discovered.

To achieve these discoveries the current plans for the winter 2025 exploration campaign include operating 3 drills by mid February. The initial drill will extend depth and strike extensions of the Lion deposit. The remaining two drills will target the known strike of the ultramafic, including 5.5 km of strike between Nisk and Lion that has not previously been drilled. This area includes structures and EM anomalies that are similar to the original target that led to the discovery of Lion in late 2023. In addition, the Nisk Ni deposit remains open to expansion, with some of the best intersections found in the last drilling campaign at Nisk (2023) that targeted depth extensions. Additional drilling is expected to increase the 2023 NI43-101 mineral resource estimate, and to help understand Nisk’s connection to the high grade Lion Cu deposit.

To help direct the exploration drilling Power Nickel has retained the services of a geophysicist to review borehole EM surveys and ground EM surveys that were conducted in 2024. This work will identify new drill targets for the 2025 campaign. Several holes west of Lion (PN-24-082 to 85, Figure 1) are the initial locations for borehole EM surveys and these will be prioritized when the second drill arrives at site at the beginning of February.

A New Discovery – PN-24-094


Borehole EM surveys in 2024 have already provided a success. In late 2024 Power Nickel tested a weak EM target located 700m east of Lion that was similar to the one found over the Lion deposit. The initial holes showed indications of a weak Cu mineralized structure (Figure 2). A subsequent bore hole survey indicated an off-hole anomaly and subsequent drilling intersected massive sulphides (po-cpy) with strong indications of Ni in on-site XRF analyses (Figure 3). The unusual host rock for this deposit (felsic gneisses) provides at third deposit type in this expanding Ni-Cu camp. Power Nickel is awaiting assays of this zone to help characterize it. This area will be another focus of the 2025 drilling campaign.

Figure 1: Plan view of drill holes in the Lion Zone Area, showing current drill hole PN-25-096, and discovery hole PN-24-094 east of Lion

(CNW Group/Power Nickel Inc.)

Figure 2: Example of minor Cu mineralization in PN-24-090 drill core that led to BH EM discovery in PN-24-094

Figure 2: (CNW Group/Power Nickel Inc.)

Figure 3: Massive sulphide intersections in PN-24-094. This zone was preceded by significant zones of vein, fracture controlled and disseminated Cu zones.

(CNW Group/Power Nickel Inc.)

Table 2: Significant assay results previously reported – Lion zone

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Duane Hope is a Partner at Capital 10X, he brings over 15 years of communications and research experience to the firm. His research and writing have appeared in publications for North American, European and Asian audiences.

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