Hard Creek Nickel Corporation: Preliminary Test Results for Turnagain Project

Hard Creek Nickel Corporation  (PINK:HNCKF,TSX:HNC) announces that they have results from preliminary testing at the Turnagain Nickel Project, located near Dease Lake, BC.

The release is quoted as saying:

Hard Creek Nickel Corporation (TSX:HNC) today announced that it has completed new preliminary metallurgical tests on a new composite sample (Sample 10-265) collected from the recently drilled Hole 10-265 in the Horsetrail Zone of the Company’s 100% owned Turnagain Nickel Project, located near Dease Lake in British Columbia, Canada. The Company is conducting further metallurgical tests to evaluate the potential of improving the Turnagain nickel concentrate grade.

Mark Jarvis, President of Hard Creek Nickel Corporation says:

“These test results are very preliminary in nature, but provide early encouragement which indicate a portion of the Turnagain deposit is amenable to the creation of a readily marketable concentrate while maintaining nickel recoveries in excess of 50%,” said Mark Jarvis, President of Hard Creek Nickel. “We are being cautious at this point as we do not know exactly how extensive this material is within the deposit. However, these results are an improvement over previous test work on similar samples, which resulted in a 4% concentrate grade with 55.3% Ni recoveries. Work remains to test the new processing regime on other lithological domains within the deposit.”

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