Azure Minerals’ Ridgeline deposit at the Andover nickel project continues to get better the deeper it goes, with its highest grade intersection to date.

The Mark Creasy-backed explorer struck 18.2m at 1.93% nickel, 0.65% copper and 0.08% cobalt from 508.2m in ANDD0177, including 9.3m at 2.58% Ni, 0.75% Cu and 0.10% Co from 510.5m.

Part of Azure Minerals’ (ASX:AZS) 60-40 owned JV with the Creasy Group in the West Pilbara, it continues to show massive depth potential, with the main zones of massive and semi-massive nickel sulphides still open down plunge.

Ridgeline is located just 200m from the westernmost point of the Andover deposit, where a resource in March pointed to a battery metals inventory of 51,700t of nickel, 21,700t of copper and 2290t of cobalt at a nickel equivalent grade of 1.41%.

The latest drill result at Ridgeline confirms its potential for deeper mineralisation, with geological modelling completed and work on a new mineral resource estimate under way.

Holes to test for deeper mineralised potential are currently being designed.

Three musketeers 

Within Ridgeline are three northwest plunging shoots, none of which have been closed off yet with all three – East, West and North – containing broad widths of massive and semi-massive sulphides with high nickel grades.

All are unconstrained at depth, with hits stretching between 200-500m below surface over parallel east-west striking mineralised horizons of more than 350m and 200m in the south and north.

ANDD0177 represents the deepest intercept at the West Shoot, but the deepest hits at East and North have been similarly impressive.

At East, hole ANDD0128 struck 14.5m at 1.84% Ni, 0.8% Cu and 0.09% Co from 537m, while at North ANDD0169 encountered 5.7m at 1.54% Ni, 0.32% Cu and 0.07% Co from 485.1m.

Diamond rigs on the move

With mineral resource drilling now complete at Ridgeline, the diamond rigs will move to other priority targets at the Andover project, including the Seaview and Skyline Ni-Cu-Co prospects, anomalies at Atrium and Pipeline, and new prospects at VC-30, VC-31 and VC-32.

Meanwhile, the identification of new targets across the prospective tenement package has not stopped.

Geological mapping and rock chip sampling programs have moved from detailed exploration of the southern mineralised corridor between Andover and Seaview to new horizons further to the north-east.

These exploration activities will be completed over the next few months and are expected to generate and define further high priority targets, Azure said.

 

 

 

This article was developed in collaboration with Azure Minerals (ASX:AZS), a Stockhead advertiser at the time of publishing.  

This article does not constitute financial product advice. You should consider obtaining independent advice before making any financial decisions.

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