Clean Air Metals hits Norilsk-style Nickel-Copper Massive Sulfides, 350m North of Escape South High Grade Zone

THUNDER BAY, ON, March 18, 2021 /CNW/ - Clean Air Metals Inc. ("Clean Air Metals" or the "Company") (TSXV: AIR) (FRA: CKU) (OTCQB: CLRMF) is very pleased to announce new assay results from the drilling campaign at the Escape Lake Deposit currently underway at the Company's Thunder Bay North Project (the "Project").

 

Highlights include:

 

 

Further, Hole CLM20-002 intersected 27m of 3.09g/t Palladium (Pd), 3.09g/t Platinum (Pt), 0.78% Copper (Cu) and 0.50% Nickel (Ni) from 93.1 – 120.0m downhole located in the Bridge Zone area of the Current Lake Deposit, as part of a mini bulk sample drilled with HQ core for bench test flotation metallurgical processing taking place with Blue Coast Research of British Columbia, Canada.

 

The Company has also recently completed a series of property wide geophysical transects using the magnetotelluric ("MT") geophysical method. MT uses natural, low frequency electromagnetic currents to map areas of low resistivity and high conductivity in the subsurface. The survey has identified a series of high conductivity features that were not previously recognized. These are being compiled with stratigraphic and structural data into a number of high priority massive sulphide exploration targets in and around both the Escape and Current magma conduit deposit areas.

 

The inherent fertility of the Escape Lake magma conduit deposit is well illustrated by the recent mineral resource update reported on January 20, 2021 (see Footnote¹). The Escape Lake Deposit has an overall Indicated mineral resource of 505,369 ounces at 3.67g/t PdEq in 4,286,220 tonnes and is geologically open along trend. With the 2020 investment of CAD$4.5 million into 19,000m of drilling at Escape in 2020, the average cost of discovery and compiling historical drill results was approximately $9.00 per Indicated ounce PdEq.

 

¹ NI 43-101 TECHNICAL REPORT AND MINERAL RESOURCE ESTIMATE FOR THE THUNDER BAY NORTH PROJECT, THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO, effective date January 20, 2021. Posted to SEDAR March 4, 2021. Prepared by Nordmin Engineering Ltd.- QP Glen Kuntz, P.Geo. Ontario

 

Abraham Drost, CEO of Clean Air Metals stated that "the discovery of Norilsk-style Ni-Cu-Co massive sulphides with substantial Pt and Pd in the Escape Lake Deposit system is a potential game changer for the Company. Early on we recognized the high-level similarities of the magma conduit chonolith system and structural and stratigraphic controls on mineralization at Thunder Bay North with the Talnakh complex at Norilsk, one of the world's foremost Nickel-Copper-PGM deposits. Based on the new discovery of massive sulphides in the Escape Lake Deposit with favorable metal ratios and the recent completion of a structural analysis and MT geophysical surveys, we are well funded to ramp up our exploration efforts in both the Escape Lake and Current Lake magma conduit deposit systems."

 

The Company plans a minimum 30,000m of further delineation drilling at the Escape Lake Deposit at a cost of approximately $6.6 million in 2021. The Current Lake Deposit, itself with an Indicated mineral resource of 1,328,789 oz PdEq at an average grade of 3.44 g/t PdEq in 11,999,177 tonnes (reported January 20, 2021; see Page 1 Footnote¹) will also receive additional $2.2 million budget for approximately 10,000m of drilling to convert Inferred into Indicated in the Beaver Lake Zone area.

 

A further minimum $1.1 million program of 5000m drilling will be allocated to drilling specific structural/stratigraphic targets both inside and outside the known magma conduit areas, with coincident high conductivity MT geophysical anomalies and high prospectivity for massive sulphide mineralization.

 

 

 

 

About Clean Air Metals Inc.

 

Clean Air Metals' flagship asset is the 100% owned, high grade Thunder Bay North Project, a platinum, palladium, copper, nickel project located near the City of Thunder Bay, Ontario and the Lac des Iles Mine owned by Impala Platinum. The Clean Air Metals project hosts the Current Lake deposit and magma conduit and the Company is actively exploring the Escape Lake deposit, a twin structure to the Current Lake deposit. Executive Chairman Jim Gallagher and CEO Abraham Drost lead an experienced team of geologists and engineers who are using the Norilsk magma conduit stratigraphic and mineral deposit model to guide ongoing exploration and development studies. As the former CEO of North American Palladium Ltd. which owned the Lac des Iles Mine prior to the sale to Impala Platinum in December 2019, Jim Gallagher and team are credited with the mine turnaround and creation of significant value for shareholders.