Fathom Nickel Inc (CSE:FNI, OTCQB:FNICF) will commence its winter exploration program at the Albert Lake project during the last week of January.
The geophysics team and drill contractor are expected to arrive at Albert Lake on or about 29 January.
Drilling is expected to commence during the first week of February.
Drilling will focus on the Tremblay-Olson Claims area, approximately two km southwest of the historic Rottenstone Mine, where the company has identified a very robust time domain electromagnetic (TDEM) conductor on the eastern flank of a multi-element-in-soil anomaly.
The four-week drill program is anticipated to include between five and seven drillholes for a total of between 2,000 and 2,500 meters.
The Tremblay-Olson Showing, located 2.5 kilometres southwest of the historic Rottenstone mine, is defined by a lens-shaped ultramafic body exposed on surface through trenching.
A soil geochemistry program covering the Tremblay-Olson Claims area was completed in the fourth quarter of 2022. This program identified a very robust multi-element-in-soil anomaly measuring approximately four-square kilometers.
Subsequent geophysical work added to knowledge of the Claims.
"The geochemistry, geophysics, and our understanding of the geology within the Tremblay-Olson Claims area have highlighted a very-high priority drill-ready target located approximately two kilometers southwest of one of the richest nickel-copper-platinum group element mines recorded in Canadian mining history,” said Ian Fraser, chief executive of Fathom Nickel.
“Our limited exploration to date at Tremblay-Olson has highlighted an incredible nickel-copper-palladium-platinum-gold in-soil anomaly that is flanked by a very strong and large electromagnetic conductor occurring at a depth of around 350 metres to 375 metres which is also coincident with a gravity anomaly at this depth. We continue our multi-disciplinary approach to exploration and everything we have done to date suggests we may have found a mineralized ultramafic source - or sources - occurring within the Tremblay-Olson Claims area. It is now time to drill!"