On 4 February 2015, Sirius confirmed that drilling at their...

On 4 February 2015, Sirius confirmed that drilling at their nearby Crux prospect, situated 15km along strike from Plato, intersected disseminated and matrix nickel-copper sulphides suggesting the potential for additional major nickel-copper mineralisation. Sirius reported that drilling had intersected:

“Nova style host rock with a broad zone of trace sulphides and localised disseminated and matrix sulphides with visible pentlandite [nickel sulphide] and chalcopyrite [copper sulphide]”.

Nova is a Thompson-style nickel-copper sulphide deposit. The Thompson Belt nickel deposits in Canada are found in clusters with large deposits occurring over 60km of strike. It is expected that with further exploration the main Fraser Zone has potential to yield multiple new nickel-copper discoveries.