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Message: Description of Kambalda mineralization....

I picked excerpt from another "NR"....but there is a brief explanation of Kambalda.

"The Fenelon nickel occurrence is strikingly similar to the Kambalda nickel mines in Western Australia, where very significant nickel mining has taken place since the 1960's. At Kambalda, nickel is mined from 0.5 to 5 meter thick layers that are 100 to 300 meters wide and up to 1,000 meters long. Numerous economic nickel deposits occur at Kambalda in Archean ultramafic flows that consist of komatiitic (high magnesium) basalt. Worldwide, many nickel deposits of this type were formed during Archean times. High grade nickel at Kambalda generally grades over 1% nickel and is usually contained within lower grade zones that are 10 to 30 meters thick. Published pre-mining reserves at the Kambalda -- St. Ives mines were 31 million tonnes of ore containing nearly 2.5 billion pounds of nickel."

So I guess it has less to do with the depth of the zone or even the grade which is not great....but it has more to do with the width and the length of the field...in other words it is like a large blanket of mineralized nickel that holds massive potential for mineable ore. So based on this the description "Kambalda" if it holds in our case could be very very significant. If the anomaly is in fact in tact ie 1.3 kilometers long it could hold some pretty interesting potential. So no doubt if we find something..it will require several more holes to determine the size of the blanket...if in fact "Kambalda" is what we are dealing with.



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