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URL: http://brilliantmining.com/investors/news_releases/index.php?content_id=21&page_number=1
Brilliant Mining Corp. (BMC: TSXV) is pleased to provide preliminary results from its 100% owned Ossok West and Michikamau Ni-Cu-PGE (Nickel-Copper-Platinum Group Element) properties located in western Labrador. PGE assays have been received and an initial interpretation of GEOTEM results from the Michikamau property has been completed.
Ossok West and Michikamau are two of the four distinct Ni-Cu-Co-PGE (Nickel-Copper-Cobalt- Platinum Group Element) properties that Brilliant acquired on the basis of anomalous mineralization and highly favourable geological criteria combined with proximity to infrastructure. Diverse mineralization styles from the various suites of rocks in this region are known to have similarities with Voisey´s Bay type deposits that are rich in Ni-Cu-Co and with Lac Des Iles-type deposits that host Pd-Pt-Cu-Ni-Au.
Government mapping and geophysical data (gravity and magnetics) indicate that the Michikamau claims may cover the interpreted "throat" of the Michikamau intrusion, which is critical for concentrating Ni sulphides in this geologic setting. The preliminary interpretation of a 229 line kilometer airborne GEOTEM survey recently completed at Michikamau has defined several high priority EM anomalies believed to be hosted by coarse grained troctolite. Independent of the airborne GEOTEM survey, an angular boulder comprised of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite bearing troctolite was sampled during reconnaissance prospecting and is proximal to a 500 meter long GEOTEM anomaly. Ni-Cu assays from this sample are expected soon.
The Ossok Mountain Intrusive Suite has many attributes suggestive of high potential for the presence of PGE and related Ni-Cu mineralization, yet the region has remained virtually untested until now. Reconnaissance prospecting at Ossok West property has identified previously unreported ultramafic outcrops less than 1 kilometer from the Trans-Labrador Highway. Several grab samples of malachite and chalcopyrite bearing pyroxenite have yielded significantly anomalous PGE values. Sample 05-RCP-026 assayed 0.76 g/t Pd, 0.20 g/t Pt and 0.16 g/t Au and nearby sample 05-RCP-025 yielded 0.51 g/t Pd, 0.11 g/t Pt and 0.15 g/t Au. These results confirm the PGE potential of the Ossok Mountain Intrusive Suite. Ni-Cu assays from these samples and results of the airborne GEOTEM survey over the showings are expected soon.
For more information, please contact:
Sean Mager, President and CEO at (780) 437-6624 ext.234; or
Rob Carpenter, Ph.D., P.Geo., Director at (604) 646-4520
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