Bravo Mining Corp. announced that it has received assay results from thirteen diamond drill holes from the Southwest, Central and North Sectors at its 100% owned Luanga palladium + platinum + rhodium + gold + nickel project, located in the Carajas Mineral Province, state of Para, Brazil. Results from thirteen diamond drill holes have been received, which includes one of the potential pit-wall geotechnical drill holes and drilling from the Phase 2 Program. Phase 2 drilling is targeting potential extensions of PGM+Au+Ni mineralization down to twice the depth below surface that Bravo drilled in Phase 1. Two of the drill holes reported in this news release are located in the North Sector, including the geotechnical drill hole, seven are in the Central Sector, and three are in the Southwest Sector.
Geotechnical drill hole DDH23LU202 located in the North Sector shows a wide (>100m) zone of magmatic Ni mineralization within which there are two distinct higher-grade Ni zones (6.28m at 1.21g/t PGM+Au, 0.80% Ni including 3.28m at 1.45g/t PGM+Au, 1.02% Ni, and 5.20m at 0.99g/t PGM+Au, 0.84% Ni), providing further evidence of magmatic nickel sulphides distributed over a significant stratigraphic thickness in the North Sector. Also potentially significant, DDH23LU202 intersected magmatic nickel sulphides in the gap between HeliTEM anomalies T2 and T3 (yet to be drill tested) and on strike of both EM anomalies. The Central Sector shows DDH23LU204 (49m at 3.12g/t PGM+Au, 0.33% Ni, including 12m at 6.10g/t PGM+Au, 0.54% Ni), which lies directly along strike from previously reported drill hole DDH23LU175 (54m at 2.33g/t PGM+Au, 0.22% Ni, including 32m at 4.99g/t PGM+Au, 0.30% Ni). The results from DDH23LU204 define a continuation of a distinct higher-grade zone of mineralization extending from DDH23LU175 on the section to the north and close to the geographic centre of the Luanga intrusion. Assay results from DDH23LU204 show increased PGM+Au and significantly higher Ni sulphide grades as compared to DDH23LU175 to the north. Directly to the south of DDH23LU204 is HeliTEM anomaly T17, which is scheduled to be drilled in the coming months. DDH23LU215 (30m at 1.73g/t PGM+Au, 0.25% Ni), drilled below (down dip) of drill hole DDH23LU175, which demonstrates that mineralization continues at depth, albeit with a lesser thickness in comparison to DDH23LU175. This result, coupled with the significant increase in grade in DDH23LU204 to the south could be indicative of a plunging high-grade zone. At the northern end of the Central Sector, magmatic Ni sulphides were also intersected in the ultramafic footwall in drill holes DDH23LU201 (0.77m at 1.91g/t PGM+Au, 1.65% Ni) and DDH23LU205 (0.70m at 0.08g/t PGM+Au, 1.43% Ni) supporting the potential for zones of magmatic Ni sulphides in the stratigraphic basal units of the Central Sector. A total of 238 drill holes)have been completed by Bravo to date, for 51,217.75 metres, including 8 metallurgical holes. Results have been reported for 213 Bravo drill holes to date. Assay Results for 17 Bravo drill holes that have been completed are currently outstanding .