en.Wedoany.com Reported - Pivotal Metals (ASX:PVT) has announced high-grade copper, nickel, and platinum group metals (PGM) results from early drilling at its wholly-owned Belleterre Project in Quebec, Canada.
The Belleterre claim area covers 160 square kilometers and hosts multiple deposits and occurrences within three permit areas: Midrim, Lorraine, and LaForce. Each prospect contains high-grade copper-nickel-PGM mineralization associated with gabbroic intrusions and magmatic sulfide systems.
Initial drilling results cover five holes in the Midrim area, which tested electromagnetic anomalies at the Alotta and Midrim East prospects. At the Alotta prospect, one hole returned exceptionally high grades across multiple sulfide zones: the hole intersected 21.8 meters at 1.3% nickel, 1.0% copper, and 1.3 g/t 3PGE (platinum group elements) from 73 meters depth, including a 4.7-meter high-grade section from 85.3 meters grading 2.7% nickel, 1.7% copper, and 2.4 g/t 3PGE. A deeper sulfide zone intersected 5.2 meters at 0.57% nickel, 0.93% copper, and 1.0 g/t 3PGE from 104 meters depth.
Pivotal Metals stated that the mineralization characteristics are consistent with historical drilling results, which included samples grading up to 22% copper and 33.8 g/t palladium. The company added that the sulfide mineralization characteristics encountered at the Alotta prospect support a remobilization and emplacement model, but the primary source has yet to be identified.
Pivotal Metals Managing Director Ivan Fairhall noted that these results highlight the company's expectations for the Belleterre project area, with anomalously high-grade mineralization identified over a broad area demonstrating that the exploration program is targeting a significant mineralized system. These results improve the understanding of the mineralization and help expand targets along the broader Midrim-Alotta-LacCroche trend at Belleterre.
Management believes the Belleterre project is highly prospective yet underexplored, with nine known high-grade magmatic sulfide deposits defining a regional mineralized corridor. The ongoing drilling program is part of a broader systematic exploration strategy aimed at identifying the source of multiple high-grade sulfide occurrences by combining modern geophysical techniques with historical drilling data and surface geochemistry.
Pivotal is currently using an integrated geophysical targeting approach to detect sulfide accumulations beneath cover, which is directly applicable to the company's broader strategy of discovering new ore bodies at Belleterre. Overall, the company expects to drill 8 to 12 geophysical anomalies this year. The company has recently completed drilling to support the first DHEM (downhole electromagnetic) survey at the LacCroche prospect, and the drill rig is currently drilling a previously untested 200-meter by 400-meter conductor at the Shanty Lake prospect.
Pivotal is also advancing a resource update for its Horden Lake copper project in Quebec, which currently hosts a total mineral resource estimate of 37 million tonnes at 1.1% copper equivalent (CuEq). The majority of the resource lies within a potential open-pit shell and benefits from valuable by-products including nickel, gold, palladium, platinum, silver, and cobalt. Management stated that the updated resource estimate is in the final stages of review and is expected to be released later this month. This resource will form the basis for a scoping study for the Horden Lake project, which is planned for release in the third quarter of this year.
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