Churchill Resources Inc. announced that it has staked two new licenses adjacent to its Taylor Brook Nickel Project property in Western Newfoundland. The combined area of the two newly granted licenses is 126.75 km2, bringing the Taylor Brook Project's total area to 302.5 km2.
Taylor Brook West Property Regional Magnetics and -300 m MMT Resistivity. Image Credit: Churchill Resources Inc.
The Company's 2023 Mobile Magneto-telluric (“MMT”) airborne survey, which revealed a very low resistivity response coincident with the magnetic trend, prioritized the new area, named Taylor Brook West (“TB West”), which encompasses a parallel magnetic high feature to the Taylor Brook Gabbro Complex.
A much more extensive magmatic intrusive system or complex may be present than previously believed. Similar low resistivity MMT anomalies have been shown to correlate with gabbroic and gabbronoritic magmatic rocks prospective for Ni-Cu-Co sulfides at the Layden Prospect and along the TB Magmatic Trend.
The Company has sent field crews to TB West to prospect and sample soil along the network of logging roads. Using the company's vast geochemical database for TB magmatic rocks, Dr. Derek Wilton is processing and interpreting historical lithogeochemical data from rock samples obtained by the Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2010 and Altius Minerals in 1999.
Some historical rock samples show chemical and megascopic similarities to the Layden-Taylor Brook magmatic rocks, suggesting similar nickel-copper-cobalt potential. Previous workers have classified the historical rock samples as gabbros, meta gabbros, and amphibolites.
Preparations are underway to submit applications for exploration permits to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to approve airborne gradiometer magnetics (MMT and Heli-GT) and follow-up surface work.