Flying Nickel Engages Mercator to Prepare PGM and Nickel Mineral Resource Estimate for Minago in Manitoba's Thompson Nickel Belt
Vancouver, September 28, 2023 - Flying Nickel Mining Corp. (TSXV: FLYN) (OTCQB: FLYNF) ("Flying Nickel" or the "Company") announces that the Company has engaged Mercator Geological Services to commission an independent platinum group metals ("PGM") and nickel Mineral Resource Estimate ("MRE") in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") for the Minago project ("Minago") located in Manitoba's Thompson's Nickel Belt, Canada.
This will be the first Minago MRE to include PGM, based on recent successful PGM assay program completed in June 2023. There were significant findings of PGM values correlated with nickel mineralization.
Highlights from assay results as previously reported in 2023 include:
N-07-07 grading 1.16% Ni, <0.01% Cu, 0.200 g/t Pt, 0.525 g/t Pd and 0.038 g/t Au (0.762 g/t PGM+Au) over an 8.81 meter interval from 140.19 meter downhole.
N-07-09 grading 1.52% Ni, 0.06% Cu, 0.222 g/t Pt, 0.822 g/t Pd and 0.021 g/t Au (1.064 g/t PGM+Au) over a 4.50 meter interval from 262.25 meter downhole.
N-07-13 grading 1.42% Ni, 0.11% Cu, 0.221 g/t Pt, 0.442 g/t Pd and 0.065 g/t Au (0.727 g/t PGM+Au) over a 22.76 meter interval from 269 meter downhole.
N-07-37 grading 1.16% Ni, 0.10% Cu, 0.164 g/t Pt, 0.416 g/t Pd and 0.039 g/t Au (0.619 g/t PGM+Au) over a 14.03 meter interval from 170.35 meter downhole.
N-07-44 grading 1.19% Ni, 0.04% Cu, 0.138 g/t Pt, 0.364 g/t Pd and 0.026 g/t Au (0.528 g/t PGM+Au) over a 19.97 meter interval from 106.30 meter downhole.
N-07-22 grading 1.25% Ni, 0.07% Cu, 0.147 g/t Pt, 0.433 g/t Pd and 0.008 g/t Au (0.588 g/t PGM+Au) over a 7.45 meter interval from 275.25 meters downhole.
N-07-22 grading 1.20% Ni, 0.07% Cu, 0.156 g/t Pt, 0.449 g/t Pd and 0.007 g/t Au (0.611 g/t PGM+Au) over a 6.71 meter interval from 286.39 meters downhole.
N-07-28 grading 1.33% Ni, 0.01% Cu, 0.198 g/t Pt, 0.540 g/t Pd and 0.010 g/t Au (0.749 g/t PGM+Au) over a 6.24 meter interval from 102.23 meters downhole.
N-07-41B grading 1.29% Ni, 0.06% Cu, 0.180 g/t Pt, 0.506 g/t Pd and 0.010 g/t Au (0.695 g/t PGM+Au) over a 14.15 meter interval from 281.79 meters downhole.
N-07-41B grading 1.47% Ni, 0.04% Cu, 0.169 g/t Pt, 0.497 g/t Pd and 0.019 g/t Au (0.685 g/t PGM+Au) over an 8.84 meter interval from 300.07 meters downhole.
N-07-22 grading 0.50% Ni, 0.01% Cu, 0.051 g/t Pt, 0.126 g/t Pd and 0.003 g/t Au (0.180 g/t PGM+Au) over a 4.40 meter interval from 315.60 meters downhole.
N-07-22 grading 1.20% Ni, 0.07% Cu, 0.156 g/t Pt, 0.449 g/t Pd and 0.007 g/t Au (0.611 g/t PGM+Au) over a 6.71 meter interval from 286.39 meters downhole.
N-07-34 grading 0.25% Ni, 0.01% Cu, 0.365 g/t Pt, 0.031 g/t Pd and 0.003 g/t Au (0.399 g/t PGM+Au) over a 5.80 meter interval from 179.20 meters downhole.
N-07-35 grading 1.13% Ni, 0.08% Cu, 0.161 g/t Pt, 0.425 g/t Pd and 0.022 g/t Au (0.608 g/t PGM+Au) over a 26.34 meter interval from 132.94 meters downhole.
N-07-35 grading 1.61% Ni, 0.10% Cu, 0.220 g/t Pt, 0.593 g/t Pd and 0.019 g/t Au (0.832 g/t PGM+Au) over an 3.72 meter interval from 153.44 meters downhole.
B-08-89 grading 1.21% Ni, 0.09% Cu, 0.178 g/t Pt, 0.464 g/t Pd and 0.010 g/t Au (0.653 g/t PGM+Au) over a 7.63 meter interval from 241.39 meters downhole.
N-07-03 grading 0.80 % Ni, 0.06% Cu, 0.302 g/t Pt, 0.634 g/t Pd and 0.008 g/t Au (0.945 g/t PGM+Au) over a 3.96 meter interval from 171.14 meters downhole.
V-08-03 grading 1.51% Ni, 0.01% Cu, 0.194 g/t Pt, 0.399 g/t Pd and 0.037 g/t Au (0.629 g/t PGM+Au) over an 11.07 meter interval from 527.49 meters downhole.
V-08-04B grading 1.30% Ni, 0.10% Cu, 0.176 g/t Pt, 0.458 g/t Pd and 0.061 g/t Au (0.694 g/t PGM+Au) over a 5.33 meter interval from 285.80 meters downhole.
V-08-05 grading 1.11% Ni, 0.07% Cu, 0.134 g/t Pt, 0.353 g/t Pd and 0.048 g/t Au (0.534 g/t PGM+Au) over an 14.60 meter interval from 613.50 meters downhole.
N-07-26 grading 0.31% Ni, 0.289 g/t Pt, 0.42 g/t Pd and 0.004 g/t Au (0.713 g/t PGM+Au) over a 4.99 meter interval from 207.8 meters downhole.
True widths are approximately half the width observed in core.
About the Minago Project
The Minago Project is located in Canada's Thompson Nickel Belt and currently has a NI 43-101 compliant open pit optimized and underground, Measured and Indicated resource of 44.2 million tonnes grading 0.74% Ni (722 million lbs contained nickel) and Inferred resource of 19.6 million tonnes grading 0.74% Ni (319 million lbs contained nickel). This technical report, completed by Mercator and AGP, has an effective date of February 28, 2022, and is available under the Company's profile on SEDAR.
There has been cumulative 90,783 meters of drilling at the Minago Project by 6 operators since 1966. Additionally, Flying Nickel drilled 2,718 meters in 2022 since acquiring the Minago Project in February 2021.
QA/QC
The sampling process incorporated blanks (Ordovician crushed homogeneous limestone), standards (certified reference material: CDN-ME) and duplicates (core duplicate ¼). QAQC samples were inserted at intervals of 20, which represent 6% of samples.
Qualified Person
The disclosure of scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been approved by Robert Smith, a Qualified Person under NI 43-101 who is independent of the company. The historical information referred to this release and shown above were obtained from historical work reports up to date and have not been independently verified by a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43- 101.
Further information on the Company can be found at www.flynickel.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
John Lee
Chief Executive Officer
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Phone: Phone: 1.877.664.2535 / 1.877.6NICKEL
Email: info@flynickel.com
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