What's happened?
Blackstone Minerals Ltd (ASX: BSX, “Blackstone”) has announced that it has intersected further high-grade massive sulfide Nickel-Cu PGE at its Ban Chang prospect. The results announced include the following:
Source: ASX release, 2nd September 2020
What are the key highlights?
- Blackstone’s maiden drill holes at Ban Chang have intersected high‐grade massive sulfide nickel over a 1.2km strike within a massive sulfide target zone now extended to more than 2km strike.
- Results follow Blackstone’s recent blind discovery of massive sulfide nickel targets at the Viper Discovery Zone (VDZ) with a series of new shallow electromagnetic (EM) anomalies located ~200m north-east of Ban Chang East.
- Blackstone is continuing its aggressive exploration program with six drill rigs of which four are owned by the Company.
- Blackstone’s Scoping Study on downstream processing to produce nickel sulfate for the lithiumion battery industry and Ban Phuc maiden resource are on track for completion in Q3, CY20.
For more information, please refer to the announcement linked below.