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Surge Battery Metals Announces Drilling Underway at the Hard Nickel Four Project, Decar Nickel District, Central BC
COQUITLAM, BC / ACCESSWIRE / November 9, 2022 / Surge Battery Metals Inc. (the "Company" or ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Surge Battery Metals Announces Drilling Underway at the Hard Nickel Four Project, Decar Nickel District, Central BCCOQUITLAM, BC / ACCESSWIRE / November 9, 2022 / Surge Battery Metals Inc. (the \"Company\" or \"Surge\") (TSXV:NILI)(OTC PINK:NILIF)(FRA:DJ5C) Mr. Greg Reiner, President, is pleased to announce drilling has commenced on Surge's 80% owned Hard Nickel 4 project in central British Columbia. Three diamond drill holes are planned for a total of 900 meters of coring; at the time of writing hole 1 (HN4-22-01) has been completed to a total depth of 300 meters.Preliminary analysis of core from HN4-22-01 indicates drilling has successfully intersected strongly serpentine altered peridotite exhibiting strong magnetic response and elevated nickel as indicated by portable XRF. Core will be analyzed using Davis Tube magnetic separation to test for the presence of awaruite - a magnetic iron-nickel alloy which forms the main ore mineral at the nearby Decar Project operated by FPX Nickel Corp. (TSX-V:FPX). The second drill hole, hole HN4-22-02, is currently being collared to test the continuity of the nickel-bearing ultramafic unit encountered in HN4-22-01 and in field sampling programs.Previous fieldwork by geological crews in 2021 and 2022 highlighted elevated nickel in serpentinized peridotite of the Trembleur Ultramafic suite associated with a regional magnetic anomaly where grab samples of this unit returned up to 2361ppm Ni (see Surge press release dated July 5, 2022). Follow up exploration of magnetic anomalies returned up to 0.0647% Davis Tube Recoverable (\"DTR\") nickel (Sample F00070721).The 2022 drill campaign by Surge Battery Metals Inc. is designed to target coincident elevated DTR nickel in grab samples and magnetic highs.Qualified person and data verificationJeremy Hanson, PGeo, a qualified person as defined by NI 43-101, has supervised the preparation of and reviewed and approved of the disclosure of information in this news release. Mr. Hanson has verified the data, including drilling, sampling, test and recovery data, by supervising all of such procedures. There are no known factors that could materially affect the reliability of data collected and verified under his supervision. No QA/QC issues have been identified to date.Figure 1 - HN4 Claim map with magnetic anomalies overlain by Davis Tube Recoverable rock sa...