2010 Frontier Exploration with airborne geophysics

This entry was posted by AP on Monday, 5 July, 2010

Royal Roads Corp.

The 2010 Long Range exploration program is focussed on two areas of activity, the first being the more advanced exploration on the Portage nickel discovery and the second being frontier airborne geophysics and follow-up prospecting over the newly acquired claims recently incorporated into the Long Range property. As of June 17th, 2010, the frontier airborne geophysical surveys over the newly acquired claims was completed with results anticipated to be available in August 2010.  Once received, data will be reviewed to select targets for immediate follow-up by ground prospecting. Areas surveyed by the 1,400 line kilometre Fugro HELITEM® airborne surveys include several properties underlain by unexplored gabbro bodies recently recognized to be prospective for magmatic nickel-copper sulphide deposits. Depending on results, it is hoped that the prospecting activities will help evaluate targets for further work including testing by diamond drilling.

The Long Range property, located 64 kilometres to the southwest of Buchans, covers 381,500 hectares (381.5 km2). The exploration philosophy at Long Range is centered around the potential for discovery of a magmatic nickel sulphide deposit broadly analogous to Vale Inco’s Voisey’s Bay mine in Labrador and Kennecott’s Eagle deposit currently being developed in northern Michigan

An airborne geophysical survey flown over the initial property in 2008 detected a number of anomalies in prospective gabbro. Follow up work ultimately resulted in the discovery of the Portage Nickel prospect and the Range Copper prospect highlighted below. Additional frontier exploration is ongoing to identify new prospects in this highly prospective and un-explored region of Newfoundland.


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