Drills startup on Marathon area property.MetalCORP Ltd. has commenced drilling on its 100 per cent-owned Big Lake nickel--copper project. The area is near Marathon, located in the Mid Continental Rift continental rift A long, narrow fissure in the Earth marking a zone of the lithosphere that has become thinner due to extensional forces associated with plate tectonics. . The Phase One drill program aims to test nine targets with 11 drill holes totaling approximately 3,000 metres. Previous studies indicated magnetic anomalies Magnetic Anomaly may refer to:
This may provide indications of a massive sulphide and possibly nickel or copper mineralization Mineralization The process by which the body uses minerals to build bone structure. Mentioned in: Rickets mineralization, n the bioprecipitation of an inorganic substance. . MetalCORP is a mineral exploration company based out of Thunder Bay Thunder Bay, city (1991 pop. 113,946), SW Ont., Canada, on Thunder Bay inlet of Lake Superior. The city was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and two adjoining townships. . |
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