FPX Nickel Completes Drilling Programs at Decar Nickel District in Central British Columbia
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FPX Nickel Completes Drilling Programs at Decar Nickel District in
Central British Columbia
Vancouver, September 20, 202 1 – FPX Nickel Corp. (FPX-TSX.V) (“FPX” or the “ Company”) is
pleased to announce the completion of drilling programs at the Decar Nickel District in Central British
Columbia. The previously announced program s (see FPX’s June 29, 2021 news release) mark the most
active campaign at Decar since 2012, with a focus on resource con version of the Baptiste Deposit
(“Baptiste”) plus a maiden drill campaign at the Van Target, located 6 kilometres north of Baptiste.
At the Van Target, a total of 2,689 metres of drilling in nine widely-spaced diamond drill holes has been
completed. Maiden drilling at Van was designed to test the sub-surface potential for mineralization in areas
below and adjacent to prospective samples of outcropping bedrock, which ha d defined a target area of
approximately 2.9 square kilometres. The size of the Van Target defined by outcrop sampling is
comparable to the Baptiste deposit, which measures 3.2 kilometres along strike with widths of up to 1,080
metres.
At Baptiste, a 10 -ten hole, 2,710 -mere infill diamond drilling program has been completed. Drilling at
Baptiste was designed to convert the deposit’s near-surface inferred resources to the indicated classification
to support an eventual Baptiste preliminary feasibility study. The mine plan in the Baptiste preliminary
economic assessment envisaged the mining of a total of approximately 1.5 billion tonnes of m aterial for
processing over the Project’s 35 -year mine life, with approximately 89% of this mineralization classified
in the indicated category and 11% in the inferred category.
Assays from the Van and Baptiste programs are pending, and first results are expected to be reported by
the Company in October.
Dr. Peter Bradshaw, P. Eng., FPX’s Qualified Person under NI 43 -101, has reviewed and approved the
technical content of this news release.
About the Decar Nickel District
The Company’s Decar Nickel Di strict claims cover 245 km2 of the Mount Sidney Williams
ultramafic/ophiolite complex, 90 km northwest of Fort St. James in central British Columbia. The District
is a two-hour drive from Fort St. James on a high-speed logging road.
Decar hosts a greenfield discovery of nickel mineralization in the form of a naturally occurring nickel-iron
alloy called awaruite (Ni3Fe), which is amenable to bulk-tonnage, open-pit mining. Awaruite mineralization
has been identified in four target areas within this ophiolite complex, being the Baptist e Deposit, and the
B, Sid and Van targets, as confirmed by drilling in the first three plus petrographic examination, electron
probe analyses and outcrop sampling on all four. Since 2010, approximately US $24 million has been spent
on the exploration and development of Decar.
Of the four targets in the Decar Nickel District, the Baptiste Deposit, which was initially the most accessible
and had the biggest known surface footprint, has been the focus of diamond drilling since 2010, with a total
of 82 holes and over 31,000 metres of drilling completed. The Sid target was tested with two holes in 2010
and the B target had a single hole drilled in 2011; all three holes intersected nickel-iron alloy mineralization
over wide intervals with DTR nickel grades comparable to the Baptiste Deposit. The Van target was not
drill-tested at that time as rock exposure was very poor prior to more recent logging activity.
As reported in the current NI 43-101 resource estimate, having an effective date of September 9, 2020, the
Baptiste Deposit contains 1.996 billion tonnes of indicated resources at an average grade of 0.122% DTR
nickel, containing 2.4 million tonnes of nickel, plus 593 million tonnes of inferred resources with an average
grade of 0.114% DTR nickel, conta ining 0.7 million tonnes of nickel, both reported at a cut -off grade of
0.06% DTR nickel. Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated economic
viability.
About FPX Nickel Corp.
FPX Nickel Corp. is focused on the exploration and development of the Decar Nickel District, located in
central British Columbia, and other occurrences of the same unique style of naturally occurring nickel-iron
alloy mineralization known as awaruite. For more information, please view the Company’s web site at
www.fpxnickel.com or contact Martin Turenne, President and CEO, at (604) 681 -8600 or
On behalf of FPX Nickel Corp.
"Martin Turenne"
Martin Turenne, President, CEO and Director
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information” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. These statements address future
events and conditions and so involve inherent risks and uncertainties, as disclosed in the Company's
periodic filings with Canadian securities regulators. Actual results could differ from those currently
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