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Enonkoski Drill Programme with Rio Tinto Completed
Enonkoski Drill Programme with Rio Tinto Completed.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n Bluejay Mining plc / EPIC: JAY / Market: AIM / Sector: Mining\n \n \n \n \n 7 September 2022\n \n \n \n \n Bluejay Mining plc ('Bluejay' or the 'Company')\n \n \n \n \n First Drill Programme of 2022 at Enonkoski JV with Rio Tinto Completed\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bluejay Mining plc, the AIM, FSE listed and OTCQB traded exploration and development company with projects in Greenland and Finland, is pleased to announce that the first exploration programme of 2022 has been successfully completed at the Enonkoski nickel-copper-cobalt ('Ni-Cu-Co') Project in eastern Finland as part of the Joint Venture ('JV') & earn-in agreement with Rio Tinto Exploration Finland Oy ('Rio Tinto') announced 10 November 2020.\n \n \n \n \n The first Enonkoski JV diamond drill programme of 2022 focused on follow-up drilling at Muhelampi located 2.5 kilometres west of the former Laukunkangas Ni-Cu-Co mine and Laukunlampi located directly south-east of the mine. Both targets were also drilled by the JV in 2021.\n \n \n \n \n \n Highlights of the completed and ongoing exploration activities\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ·\n Follow-up diamond drilling at the Muhelampi and Laukunlampi targets drilled in 2021. A total of three new diamond drill holes and one drill hole extension for a total of 1,648.20 metres was drilled in May-July 2022.\n \n \n ·\n A downhole electromagnetic survey ('DHEM') was completed on the drill hole extension and two new drill holes at the Laukunlampi target located south-east of the former Laukunkangas Ni-Cu-Co mine.\n \n \n ·\n A top of bedrock ('ToB') drilling programme focusing on the large Muhola mafic intrusion in the central parts of the Enonkoski Belt and two new targets in the south-eastern parts of the belt were completed in May-June with a total of 61 ToB diamond drill core samples retrieved and are currently being processed and interpretated.\n \n \n ·\n All diamond and ToB drill core samples have been analysed at ALS and all assay data has been received.\n \n \n ·\n Geological mapping and sampling are ongoing with the aim to sample known mafic-ultramafic intrusive outcrops for modern analysis.\n \n \n ·\n All drilling, assay, geophysical, geological mapping and new sampling data are currently being processed, integrated and interpreted in a joint effort by the JV partners and will be used to...