Proactive Investors - Amaroq Minerals Ltd (TSX-V:AMRQ, AIM:AMRQ) could have a major nickel-copper discovery on its hands at its Stendalen project in Greenland, analysts at Liberum have highlighted in a recent note to clients.
The company last week released drill results which confirmed high-grade nickel-copper mineralization at the project.
A single diamond scout hole drilled into a conductive anomaly identified by geophysics at the Stendalen gabbro intrusion returned 122 meters at 0.08% nickel equivalent from a depth of 541 meters.
Highlights included 11.93 meters at 0.23% nickel equivalent from 595.47 meters, 4.73 meters at 0.22% nickel equivalent from 615.27 meters, and 12 meters at 0.14% nickel equivalent from 628 meters.
“As Amaroq noted, that only lower grade disseminated sulphides is of less important than sulphide tenor, at least at this stage,” the analysts wrote.
“The company’s hope is that massive sulphides will be discovered, with Amaroq believing Stendalen to have the potential to host material grading 3% to 5% nickel equivalent.”
They pointed out that encouragingly, the host gabbro at depths of 540 meters to 694 meters is “taxitic,” meaning there are variable grain sizes and textures in the same rock mass.
“Taxite host-rock textures are features of major nickel deposits such as Sudbury, Voisey’s Bay and Talnakh,” they wrote. “And the taxitic layer at Stendalen is actually roughly at sea level, suggesting potential future access via a shallow surface pool.”
The analysts also highlighted that mineralization at Stendalen consists primarily of the sulphide minerals pyrrhotite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite.
“Pyrrhotite at this location is non-magnetic (as at Voisey’s Bay), so there is potential for non-magnetic conducts to prove worthwhile sulphide targets,” they wrote.