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Stillwater Critical Minerals Reports High-Grade Gold and Platinum Group Elements with Battery Metals at the Pine Target, Stillwater West PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au Project, Montana, USA
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / January 10, 2023 / Stillwater Critical Minerals (formerly Group Ten...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Stillwater Critical Minerals Reports High-Grade Gold and Platinum Group Elements with Battery Metals at the Pine Target, Stillwater West PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au Project, Montana, USAVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / January 10, 2023 / Stillwater Critical Minerals (formerly Group Ten Metals) (TSX.V:PGE; OTCQB:PGEZF; FSE:5D32) (the \"Company\" or \"SWCM\") is pleased to announce the first tranche of results from work completed in 2022 on its 100%-owned Stillwater West platinum group element, nickel, copper, cobalt, and gold (\"PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au\") project adjacent to Sibanye-Stillwater's mining operations in Montana, USA.A series of news releases are planned to report the results of work on key objectives including expansion of the 2021 Mineral Resource Estimate (the \"2021 MRE\"), integration of Platreef geologic models, and field campaigns including geophysical and geological field programs both within and outside defined deposit areas. Additional updates are also expected from on-going carbon sequestration testing and other initiatives the Company is currently advancing.Pine Target HighlightsRock chip samples taken across approximately two meters of exposed shear in a trench at the Pine target in 2022 returned high-grade gold, palladium and platinum mineralization with an average of 9.0 g/t Au, 0.69 g/t Pd, and 0.69 g/t Pt (see Table 1). Significant nickel and cobalt values are also reported, consistent with past results from this area.Work in 2022 also included the acquisition of historic core to support the advancement of drill-defined high-grade mineralization at Pine towards completion of an NI-43-101-compliant resource. Mineralization at Pine was not included in the five deposits delineated by the 2021 MRE at the Chrome and Iron Mountain target areas, up to nine kilometers east of Pine within the Stillwater Igneous Complex.Historic drilling at Pine returned values of 16.94 g/t 3E (16.19 g/t Au, 0.24 g/t Pt, 0.50 g/t Pd) over 7.98 meters and 31.02 g/t 3E (28.7 g/t Au, 1.06 g/t Pt, 1.27 g/t Pd) over 2.6 meters in the area of the 2022 trench samples (see Table 2, Figure 1, and news releases on June 4, 2019, and January 25, 2019).Mineralization remains open to expansion in all directions including towards very high-level gold-in-soil anomalies extending up to two kilometers west of Pine, in addition to the adjacent high-level palladium, ...