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Permit of Works application lodged for Hanns Camp
Permit of Works application lodged for Hanns Camp.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 8800V Strategic Minerals PLC 21 April 2016 \n\n21 April 2016\nStrategic Minerals plc\n(\"Strategic Minerals\" or the \"Company\" or the \"Group\")\nPermit of Works application lodged for Hanns Camp nickel-copper sulphide target\nMaiden drilling programme planning underway at Hanns Camp\nStrategic Minerals PLC (AIM: SML; USOTC: SMCDY) is pleased to announce that the planning of the maiden drilling programme at Hanns Camp nickel-copper sulphide prospect is underway and the Permit of Work (\"PoW\") has been lodged with the West Australian Department of Mines. Hanns Camp forms part of the Laverton Project, of which Strategic Minerals recently secured an interest via its acquisition of up to 50% of Central Australian Rare Earths Pty Ltd (\"CARE\").\nHighlights\n· Maiden drilling programme planning underway for Hanns Camp nickel-copper sulphide target\n· First nickel focussed drilling to be completed since late 1970s\n· Drilling expected to commence mid-late May once permit received\n· Nickel-copper target analogous to World class Nova Discovery in Western Australia\n \nHanns Camp is located 250km north-east of the city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, which is 12km north-east of the town of Laverton in the North-Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. The prospect is easily accessible using existing tracks from Laverton, one of the main Goldfields towns. The prospect comprises three distinct targets spaced approximately 800m apart in a NNW-SSE direction. Each prospect is supported by a strong electromagnetic (\"EM\") conductor beneath anomalous copper-nickel regolith geochemistry. It is these three targets that will be the subject of the coming drilling programme.\nThe PoW is expected to be granted within the coming weeks and the detailed planning of the maiden drilling programme is in its final stages with drilling expected to commence mid to late May.\nThis programme will be the first nickel focussed drilling to be completed in this area since the late 1970s. Historic work includes 15 percussion holes that were completed in the area during the 1970s, highlights of which include 2m @ 1.36% nickel from 24m downhole. This historic data combined with recent geophysical data and a...