The Property
MAN Property Map


- Large project area, over 70,000 hectares of land
- Excellent Infrastructure
- Readily accessible from two major highways
- Boarders the Alaskan Pipeline
- Located 400 km NE of Anchorage and 265 km SE of Fairbanks
- Widespread high-grade nickel-copper-platinum group elements (Ni-Cu-PGE) showing up to 15.4% Ni, 7.19%Cu, 170g/t PGE+Au+Ag
- Partnered with ITOCHU Corporation of Japan
ITOCHU partnership
ITOCHU is a large multi billion dollar Japanese conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan
- ITOCHU has the option to earn up to 75% interest in property by expending USD$40 million in development over 7 years
- To date, ITOCHU has invested approximately $17 million in exploration expenditures and vested a 30% interest.

The photograph above shows some of the outcroppings on the property
History and Exploration
| 1991-1997 |
ACNC/Fort Knox |
Six drill hole program totalling 2001 metres plus surface UTEM and borehole plus EM on three holes. |
| 1998-2003 |
Nevada Star Resource Corp. (US) |
Geological Mapping program plus AEM survey over the northern and southern portion of the project area followed by three drill holes at fish Lake totalling 565 metres. |
| 2004-2005 |
Anglo American Exploration (U.S.A) |
Geological mapping/prospecting and soil geochemical sampling survey. Eight hole drill program also conducted totalling 2220 metres. |
| Winter 2005 |
PNI |
SQUID B-field TEM (39.5 km) over five loop areas, 7.29 km conventional TEM coil over four loop areas. |
| Summer 2005 |
PNI |
TEM (35.45 km) over four loop areas plus six km HLEM MaxMin, 177 km ground mag, 1057 soil samples and a eight diamond drill holes in Alpha |
| 2006 |
PNI |
Three diamond drill holes. |
| 2007 |
PNI |
Eight diamond drill holes totalling 3,359 metres plus airborne VTEM survey. |
| 2008 |
PNI and ITOCHU |
Program focused on diamond drilling which targeted geophysical anomalies, particularly VTEM conductors in the Beta Complex. Drilling was limited to three completed holes (one abandoned) due to poor drilling conditions. The drilling did intercept wide zones of disseminated sulphides, including 0.50 metre grading 1.39% Ni and 1.27% Cu. |
| 2009 |
PNI and ITOCHU |
Nine diamond drill holes plus mapping and airborne (ZTEM) followed by ground geophysics (Fluxgate EM). |
| 2010 |
PNI and ITOCHU |
Eleven diamond drill holes plus ground geophysics (Fluxgate EM)and Lidar and orthophoto followed ZTEM 2D inversion modeling. |
| 2011 |
PNI and ITOCHU |
Eleven diamond drill holes and ground geophysics (Fluxgate EM) |
2011 Assay Results
| Hole |
From (m) |
To (m) |
Thickness (m) |
pt-pd Weighted Average (ppb) |
Cu Weighted Average (%) |
Ni Weighted Average (%) |
| PNI-11-037 |
45.12 |
45.76 |
0.64 |
95.5 |
0.064 |
0.104 |
| PNI-11-037 |
152.4 |
195.8 |
43.43 |
83.1 |
0.047 |
0.16 |
| PNI-11-038 |
10.49 |
67.24 |
56.75 |
85.2 |
0.044 |
0.204 |
| PNI-11-039 |
58.4 |
125.8 |
67.35 |
110 |
0.055 |
0.25 |
| including |
58.4 |
60.01 |
1.61 |
240 |
- |
- |
| including |
111.2 |
113.8 |
2.61 |
205 |
- |
- |
| including |
120.6 |
122.2 |
1.62 |
255 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-042 |
10 |
31 |
21 |
112.9 |
0.071 |
0.216 |
| PNI-11-042 |
68 |
71 |
3 |
155 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-042 |
80 |
95.85 |
15.85 |
127.5 |
0.114 |
0.175 |
| including |
81 |
82 |
1 |
205 |
- |
- |
| including |
88.08 |
90.08 |
2 |
210 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-058 |
20.42 |
37.62 |
17.2 |
106.9 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-058 |
40.09 |
41 |
0.91 |
90 |
0.211 |
0.657 |
| PNI-11-058 |
62.08 |
82.96 |
20.88 |
117.5 |
0.05 |
0.19 |
| PNI-11-058 |
94.94 |
102.45 |
7.51 |
104.3 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-058 |
116.56 |
120.73 |
4.17 |
103.6 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-058 |
140.75 |
164.87 |
24.12 |
83.3 |
0.012 |
0.151 |
| PNI-11-058 |
234.38 |
301.84 |
58.46 |
127.5 |
0.03 |
0.18 |
| including |
274 |
277 |
3 |
210 |
- |
- |
| including |
294.74 |
296.11 |
1.37 |
205 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-058 |
378.31 |
391.25 |
12.94 |
145.4 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-059 |
16.1 |
23.8 |
7.7 |
110.5 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-059 |
102.05 |
103.92 |
1.87 |
140 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-059 |
216.17 |
250.77 |
34.6 |
116.2 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-059 |
367.69 |
383.96 |
16.27 |
123 |
0.031 |
0.23 |
| including |
381.91 |
383.06 |
1.15 |
230 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-059 |
427.27 |
433.39 |
6.12 |
64.7 |
0.185 |
0.101 |
| PNI-11-059 |
470.85 |
474.5 |
3.65 |
195.8 |
- |
- |
| including |
470.85 |
472.85 |
2 |
250 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-059 |
478.62 |
484.74 |
6.12 |
146.6 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-059 |
496.3 |
498.3 |
2 |
195 |
- |
- |
| including |
470.85 |
472.85 |
2 |
250 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-059 |
478.62 |
484.74 |
6.12 |
146.6 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-059 |
496.3 |
498.3 |
2 |
195 |
- |
- |
| PNI-11-059 |
504.3 |
504.7 |
0.4 |
48.8 |
0.228 |
0.248 |
| ER-11-002 |
7.61 |
10.11 |
2.5 |
134 |
- |
- |
| including |
9.45 |
10.11 |
0.66 |
215 |
- |
- |
| ER-11-002 |
143.56 |
149.94 |
6.38 |
224.5 |
- |
- |
| including |
145.08 |
147.52 |
2.44 |
280 |
- |
- |
| ER-11-002 |
180.83 |
182.41 |
1.58 |
470 |
- |
- |
| ER-11-002 |
185.61 |
191.52 |
5.91 |
370 |
- |
- |
| including |
186.76 |
189.28 |
2.52 |
650 |
- |
- |
| ER-11-002 |
282.31 |
286.99 |
4.68 |
255.6 |
- |
- |
| ER-11-002 |
322.06 |
326.14 |
4.08 |
214.9 |
- |
- |
MAN Claim Map


Photograph of 2009 Drill program