Group Ten Metals Announces Arrival of Second Drill Rig, Provides Update on 10,000 Meter Drill Program at Stillwater West PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au Project in Montana, USA
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Group Ten Metals Announces Arrival of Second Drill Rig, Provides Update on 10,000 Meter Drill
Program at Stillwater West PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au Project in Montana, USA
July 20, 2021 – Vancouver, BC - Group Ten Metals Inc. (TSX.V: PGE | OTCQB: PGEZF; FSE: 5D32) (the “Company” or
“Group Ten”) announces the arrival of the second drill rig at the Company’s flagship Stillwater West platinum group
element, nickel, copper, cobalt, and gold (“PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au”) project in Montana, USA, and provides an update on
progress of the planned 10,000 meter 2021 drill campaign. Drilling is now underway in the Chrome Mountain target
area (see Figure 1), and a second rig will be installed in the Camp target area this week.
Figure 1 – Drilling in progress in the Chrome Mountain target area, Stillwater West PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au project
The primary objective of the 2021 program is: 1) the expansion of existing drill-defined kilometer-scale nickel and
copper sulphide mineralization, enriched in palladium, platinum, rhodium, gold and cobalt, at the advanced Chrome
Mountain, Camp and Iron Mountain target areas; and 2) step-out testing of adjacent priority targets identified in the
2020 Induced Polarization (“IP”) survey (see Figure 2 and April 19, 2021 news release). In addition, an expanded IP
geophysical survey, mapping and prospecting programs are planned as part of this season’s program, with the aim of
advancing earlier-stage targets to drill-ready status across Stillwater West’s 32-kilometer strike length.
Michael Rowley, President and CEO, commented, “We are very pleased to have initiated our most extensive drill
campaign to date at Stillwater West, and to be accelerating advancement of the project towards its potential to
become a major source of low-carbon battery, green, and precious metals in a premier US mining district. The 2021
campaign will focus on the most advanced target areas with the objective of expanding the initial resource estimates
that are now in progress with release targeted for this summer. Our work to date, combined with the large, productive,
and metal-rich nature of the district, highlights the terrific scale and expansion potential of the Stillwater West project.
We look forward to further announcements in the near term.”
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Figure 2 – Drilling in progress in the Chrome Mountain target area, Stillwater West PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au project
About Stillwater West
Group Ten is rapidly advancing the Stillwater West PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au project towards becoming a world-class source
of low-carbon, sulphide-hosted nickel, copper, and cobalt, critical to the electrification movement, as well as key
catalytic metals including platinum, palladium and rhodium used in catalytic converters, fuel cells, and the production
of green hydrogen. Stillwater West positions Group Ten as the second-largest landholder in the Stillwater Complex,
with a 100%-owned position adjoining and adjacent to Sibanye-Stillwater PGE mines in south-central Montana, USA1.
The Stillwater Complex is recognized as one of the top regions in the world for PGE-Ni-Cu-Co mineralization, alongside
the Bushveld Complex and Great Dyke in southern Africa, which are similar layered intrusions. The J-M Reef, and other
PGE-enriched sulphide horizons in the Stillwater Complex, share many similarities with the highly prolific Merensky
and UG2 Reefs in the Bushveld Complex. Group Ten’s work in the lower Stillwater Complex has demonstrated the
presence of large-scale disseminated and high-sulphide battery metals and PGE mineralization, similar to the Platreef
in the Bushveld Complex2. Drill campaigns by the Company, complemented by a substantial historic drill database, are
driving 3D models of Platreef-style mineralization in the five most advanced target areas, three of which are expected
to become formal mineral resources by mid-2021. Multiple earlier-stage Platreef-style and reef-type targets are being
advanced across the rest of the 32-kilometer length of the project based on strong correlations seen in soil and rock
geochemistry, geophysical surveys, geologic mapping, and drilling.
About Group Ten Metals Inc.
Group Ten Metals Inc. is a TSX-V-listed Canadian mineral exploration company focused on the development of high-
quality platinum, palladium, nickel, copper, cobalt, and gold exploration assets in top North American mining
jurisdictions. The Company’s core asset is the Stillwater West PGE-Ni-Cu-Co + Au project adjacent to Sibanye-
Stillwater’s high-grade PGE mines in Montana, USA. Group Ten also holds the high-grade Black Lake-Drayton Gold
project adjacent to Treasury Metals’ development-stage Goliath Gold Complex in northwest Ontario, and the Kluane
PGE-Ni-Cu-Co project on trend with Nickel Creek Platinum‘s Wellgreen deposit in Canada‘s Yukon Territory.
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About the Metallic Group of Companies
The Metallic Group is a collaboration of leading precious and base metals exploration companies, with a portfolio of
large, brownfield assets in established mining districts adjacent to some of the industry’s highest-grade producers of
silver and gold, platinum and palladium, and copper. Member companies include Metallic Minerals in the Yukon’s
high-grade Keno Hill silver district and La Plata silver-gold-copper district of Colorado, Group Ten Metals in the
Stillwater PGM-nickel-copper district of Montana, and Granite Creek Copper in the Yukon’s Minto copper district. The
founders and team members of the Metallic Group include highly successful explorationists formerly with some of the
industry’s leading explorers/developers and major producers. With this expertise, the companies are undertaking a
systematic approach to exploration using new models and technologies to facilitate discoveries in these proven, but
under-explored, mining districts. The Metallic Group is headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and its member
companies are listed on the Toronto Venture, US OTC, and Frankfurt stock exchanges.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Michael Rowley, President, CEO & Director
Email: [email protected] Phone: (604) 357 4790
Web: http://grouptenmetals.com Toll Free: (888) 432 0075
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timing and success of exploration activities generally, the timing of the timing and results of future resource estimates, permitting time lines, metal prices
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