Québec Nickel Adds Second Drill Rig to Its Ducros Ni-Cu-PGE Property and Begins a 3,000 Metre Drilling Program at the Ducros Ultramafic Sill Complex

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[{"type":"text","content":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia / Sep 20, 2022 / Business Wire / Québec Nickel Corp. (CSE: QNI; FSE: 7lB; OTCQB: QNICF) (“QNI” or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce a second drill rig began operating this past week at the Company’s Ducros Ni-Cu-PGE property, located approximately 80 kilometres northeast of Val-d’Or, Québec. This second machine will see the completion of approximately 3,000 metres of drilling in the central portion of the Company’s Ducros property, at the Ducros Ultramafic Sill Complex (DUSC) target area, on the west side of Provincial Highway 113 (Figures 1 & 2). The DUSC comprises an area of approximately 2 kilometres wide by ~10 kilometres long that is interpreted to be underlain by significant volumes ultramafic and mafic dikes and sills that have been injected into a large package of sulphide-bearing clastic metasediments (Figures 1 & 2). As the target area is covered by variable thicknesses of overburden and contains little to no outcrop exposure, the current geological interpretation of the Ducros property is derived from Québec Government geology maps that are in turn based on interpretations of historical airborne geophysical datasets. Ultramafic rocks, which can be associated with massive sulphide nickel-copper-PGE deposits, are known to occur a few kilometres to the southeast of QNI’s current drilling at the DUSC, in an area historically referred to as the Ducros Sill (Figures 1 & 2). Previous drilling completed at the Ducros Sill by Abitibi Resources in the mid-1980’s intersected ultramafic rocks, namely variably serpentinized peridotites and dunites, over entire hole lengths of over 200 metres. Sulphide-bearing metasediments, which can also be an important component in the creation of nickel-copper-PGE deposits, as local sulphur source, are also known to occur in the region from work completed during the late 1950’s by Valray Exploration. During this time, Valray outlined an iron-sulphide resource from sulphide-facies iron formation units located to the southeast of QNI’s current drilling at the DUSC target (Figures 1 & 2). QNI’s first phase of drilling at the DUSC is targeting strong magnetic high geophysical features with well defined flanking and/or coincident electromagnetic conductive anomalies (conductors), as highlighted by the VTEM™ airborne survey completed in Q2 2022 (see n...

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