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Group Ten Metals Contracts Oretest Drilling and Simcoe Geoscience, Plans Largest Exploration Program to Date at Stillwater West PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au Project in Montana, USA
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / May 21, 2021 / Group Ten Metals Inc. (TSX.V:PGE)(OTCQB:PGEZF)(FS...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Group Ten Metals Contracts Oretest Drilling and Simcoe Geoscience, Plans Largest Exploration Program to Date at Stillwater West PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au Project in Montana, USAVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / May 21, 2021 / Group Ten Metals Inc. (TSX.V:PGE)(OTCQB:PGEZF)(FSE:5D32) (the \"Company\" or \"Group Ten\") announces that it has retained Oretest Drilling and Simcoe Geoscience for 2021 exploration programs at the Company's flagship Stillwater West platinum group element, nickel, copper, cobalt, and gold (\"PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au\") project in Montana, USA, adjacent to Sibanye-Stillwater's high-grade palladium-platinum mines.Group Ten's 2021 exploration program targets world-class polymetallic deposits of battery metals, platinum group elements and gold in a famously productive and metal-rich mining district which supports the highest-grade palladium-platinum mines in the world, as well as a smelter and refinery complex, in the USA. The Company's work to date has demonstrated potential for bulk tonnage Platreef-style deposits of nickel and copper sulphide that host palladium, platinum, rhodium, gold, and cobalt within the lower Stillwater complex, based on known parallels with South Africa's Bushveld complex.HighlightsOretest Drilling has been retained for a planned 10,000-meter, multi-rig drill campaign with the primary objective of expanding drill-defined mineralization at the three most advanced areas, while also testing adjacent priority targets identified in the 2020 Induced Polarization (\"IP\") survey.Results from 2021 drilling are expected to drive expansion of the inaugural mineral resource estimates that are now in development at each of the Chrome Mountain, Camp, and Iron Mountain target areas. Publication of these initial resources is targeted for summer 2021 from mineralization that starts at or near surface, runs from 1 to 1.5 kilometers in strike, and is open for expansion along trend and at depth as demonstrated by IP anomalies.Simcoe Geoscience has been retained for a planned 54-line-km Alpha IP survey to expand on the success of the 2020 survey which produced wide, high-level, and coincident chargeability and conductivity anomalies with exceptional continuity across the 9.2-kilometer length and 800m depth of the 3D model.Thick intervals of drill-defined nickel and copper sulphide mineralization with palladium, platinum, r...