Thursday - July 6: (RWE Australian Business News) - Pelican Resources Ltd (ASX code: PEL) today reported on progress at the Romblon project on the west coast of Sibuyan Island in the Philippines, with the latest diamond core-drilling program within the project identifying strong lateritic nickel mineralisation. Latest drilling was focused on the Binaya-An Small-Scale Mining Permit (SSMP), which is within the Romblon project area. A total of 36 vertical diamond core holes have been completed in the laterites from surface down to fresh bedrock on the SSMP, covering a ridge spur extending south of the main Binaya-An resource. The drilling has confirmed the mineralisation extends from surface down to depths of up to 15 metres in the saprolite zone below an iron-rich limonite cap of one to four metres. Drilling over a grid of 400 metres by 300 metres with drill spacings at 50-metre centres is still in progress. Assay results were returned with a peak value of 7.26 per cent nickel over 0.9 metres from 2 metres. Significant results include: * BNY 13 - 5.95m at 2.68% Ni from surface and 0.9m at 7.26% Ni from 2m; * BNY 14 - 11m at 1.55% Ni from surface; * BNY 23 - 13.6m at 1.53% Ni from 2.3m; and * BNY 24 - 14.6m at 1.59% Ni from surface.
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