Inspiration pulls long nickel intersection (January 11, 2006)

Drilling at the Langmuir nickel deposit, southeast of Timmins, Ont., has intersected several long intersections of nickel mineralization.

Owner Inspiration Mining (ISM-V) is testing up-dip extensions of the Langmuir North zone, which had been tested by previous operators. Five holes have now been drilled on the zone.

The best result so far has come from hole LN05-20, which cut 39.7 metres grading 1.12% nickel. The true width of the intersection works out to 25.5 metres. The interval included a 6-metre length that averaged 2.29% nickel.

Another hole, LN05-19, drilled to pierce the mineralized horizon up-dip from hole 20, intersected three zones of nickel mineralization, including 18 metres grading 0.23%, 27.6 metres grading 1.24%, and 3.5 metres grading 0.91% nickel.

A fan pattern of three holes, drilled about 235 metres north of holes 19 and 20, also intersected nickel mineralization. One hole cut 13 metres grading 0.48%, another 34 metres grading 0.32%, and a third 15 metres that averaged 0.4% nickel.

The mineralization is in komatiite flows that contain disseminated to blebby sulphides. Disseminated material is about 5% to 7% sulphides by volume, while the blebby material can run up to 30% sulphides. Drilling to date indicates that there are three lenses in the North Zone, dipping moderately to steeply southeast.

Other deposits on the claim group produced about 1.4 million tonnes of ore grading 1.47% nickel at various times between 1970 and 1991.