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Exploration Update: Noble Acquires Laverlochere Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, Gold and Platinum Group Property Near Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec
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[{"type":"text","content":"Exploration Update: Noble Acquires Laverlochere Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, Gold and Platinum Group Property Near Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec\n \n \n (TheNewswire)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Toronto, Ontario –\n \n \n TheNewswire -\n \n \n June 2\n \n \n 9\n \n \n ,\n2021 - Noble Mineral Exploration Inc.\n \n (\n \n “Noble” or the “Company”\n \n )\n(TSXV:NOB\n \n ) (\n \n FRANKFURT:NB7\n \n )\n(\n \n OTC:NLPXF)\n \n is pleased to announce that it has\n \n \n acquired the Laverlochere property near\nRouyn-Noranda, Quebec.  The property consists of 12 claims (518\nhectares).  The property is road and power accessible, located about\n100 kilometers south of Rouyn-Noranda.\n \n \n \n \n The Laverlochere property is located on the southern\npart, of the east-west trending Belleterre-Angliers greenstone belt\nthat is made up of an assemblage of sedimentary and volcanic rocks of\nArchaen age (See Figure 1).  Several Nickel-Copper-Platinum Group\noccurrences and showings have been discovered in the\nBelleterre-Angliers greenstone belt. Approximately 30 km east of the\nLaverlochere property, the Lac Kelly property reportedly contains of\n1.4 million tonnes of 0.7% Copper, 0.7% Nickel, 0.33 g/t\nPlatinum+Palladium with a potential for minor amounts of Cobalt and\nRhenium.  In the same general area, Blondeau Nickel has outlined\n227,000 tonnes of mineralization grading 0.45% Copper and 0.45%\nNickel. Historic exploration in the area has outlined four separate\nzones of Nickel-Copper-Platinum Group mineralization in gabbroic\nbodies interbedded in mafic to felsic volcanics (the above estimates\nare historic in nature not 43-101 compliant).\n \n \n \n \n The Lorraine Mine, located about 24 km east of the\nLaverlochere property operated from 1964 to 1968 and reported to have\nproduced 600,000 tonnes grading 0.47% Nickel, 1.08% Copper, 6.86 g/t\nSilver and 0.67 g/t Gold from basaltic and gabbroic rocks. (See Figure\n1)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Click Image To View Full Size\n \n \n \n \n Figure 1: Regional setting of the Laverlochere Property\non a magnetic background.  Areas coloured pink are magnetic highs\ndenoting mafic to ultramafic rocks.  The noted reserves or resources\nare not 43-101 compliant and historic in nature.\n \n \n \n \n On the Laverlochere property, historic tre...