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Nicola Mining Has Commenced Diamond Drilling at Its Flagship New Craigmont Copper Project
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 6, 2023) - Nicola Mining Inc. ( TSXV: NI...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Nicola Mining Has Commenced Diamond Drilling at Its Flagship New Craigmont Copper ProjectVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 6, 2023) - Nicola Mining Inc. (TSXV: NIM) (FSE: HLI) (OTCQB: HUSIF) (the \"Company\" or \"Nicola\") announces that it has commenced a diamond drilling exploration program (the \"2023 Program\") at its wholly-owned New Craigmont Copper Project (\"New Craigmont\"), located near Merritt, BC, and 33 km south of Teck Resources Ltd.'s Highland Valley Copper, Canada's largest copper mine.The Company announced in its May 2, 2023 news release, that it had hired an Economic Geologist / VP of Exploration to lead the 2023 Program and is pleased that Will Whitty, P.Geo has joined the team. Mr. Whitty has over fifteen years of advanced-stage exploration experience working on a variety of porphyry copper +/- molybdenum deposits and copper skarns as well as Carlin-style gold and orogenic gold deposits. Mr. Whitty completed his B.Sc. degree in geology at Carleton University in Ottawa and his M.Sc. degree in geology with the Mineral Deposit Research Unit (\"MDRU1\") at UBC in Vancouver. After graduating, he worked as a consultant for TetraTech EBA, providing technical services to the mining industry. He subsequently, moved to Arizona where he worked for Freeport-McMoRan for nine years. As part of Freeport's mine site exploration group, he had the opportunity to visit most of the company's mines in the southwest US, run drill programs, and provide geological services.Mr. Whitty subsequently worked for Nevada Gold Mines, a Barrick-Newmont joint venture, Goldrush Mine Project2, which is located within the Cortez district in northern Nevada. As Senior Geologist at a newly producing mine, he successfully built and developed a team of geologists and managed multi-million dollar drill programs. Responsibilities included leading all surface and underground drilling, which included both exploratory and underground grade-control responsibilities, as well as providing senior management key recommendations.Serendipitously, Will's role as VP of Exploration at Nicola includes working closely with the MDRU and Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (\"EOAS2\") at the University of British Columbia. The Company has commenced working with the MDRU, which has established a team to work on the ...