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MAN Alaska Project

 

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