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Article: Niocan Conducts Metallurgical Tests on Its Great Whale Iron Property.
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- Marketwire Canada
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- August 17, 2009
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MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Aug 17, 2009 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Niocan Inc. (TSX:NIO) today announced an update of its 100% owned Great Whale Iron Property ("GWIP") project.
In July 2009, the Company collected new drilled core samples and cores drilled in 1957-60 by Belcher Mining Corporation Ltd from the A, D and E iron mineralized (36% Fe magnetite) sites on the GWIP (17,098 acres) located 80 kilometers from the twin villages of Kuujjuarapik - Whapmagoostui on the Hudson Bay.
The objective of the 2009 program, at an approximate cost of $250,000, is to perform modern metallurgical tests to confirm the optimum ore grain size of the prospects (historical ...