VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - March 20, 2013) -North American Nickel Inc. (TSX VENTURE:NAN)(OTCBB:WSCRF) (CUSIP: 65704T 108) - North American Nickel ("NAN") is pleased to announce that it has begun preparations for the 2013 summer drill campaign at its 100% owned Maniitsoq Ni-Cu-Co-PGE project in southwest Greenland. Fieldwork will begin in May and drilling is scheduled to begin in June. A minimum of 3,000 meters of drilling is planned.
Recent modelling of airborne and downhole EM data collected in 2012 has identified two particularly high conductance targets (Figure 1). These targets are considered very high priority because concentrated magmatic nickel copper sulphides often produce high conductance EM anomalies.
The two highly conductive anomalies are P-63, one of the VTEM targets to be tested in the southern part of the 75 km long by 15 km wide Greenland Norite Belt (GNB), and a step response type off hole conductor at Imiak Hill, down plunge of significant intersections made by NAN in 2012.
The highly prospective P-63 VTEM conductor, situated only 10 km from tide water in the southern part of the GNB, is an untested, norite-hosted anomaly that occurs along the edge of 1.5 km by 0.9 km norite intrusion (Figure 2). It has an extremely high calculated conductivity thickness of 14,880 siemens. For perspective, we can compare this to conductivity thickness at Imiak Hill and Spotty Hill, where NAN intersected significant Ni+Cu ± Co ± PGM mineralization in 2012:
