MONTREAL, Nov. 08, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sama Resources Inc. (“Sama” or the “Company”) (TSX-V:SME) today announced that it has commenced a 3,000-line/kilometer airborne helicopter time domain electromagnetic and magnetic survey (“HTEM Survey”) over the Samapleu and Yepleu areas on the Company’s Côte d’Ivoire Nickel-Copper-Cobalt-Palladium Project in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. The HTEM Survey will be flown over the area at 200-meter line spacing and is being carried out by Geotech Ltd., Canada, using their Versatile Time-Domain Electromagnetic (VTEM) geophysical system.
The HTEM Survey will assist Sama with its geological interpretation of the entire Samapleu and Yepleu project areas. The HTEM Survey is aimed at targeting new sectors with the potential for additional nickel‑copper sulphide mineralization from the surface to several hundred meters at depth.
The Company’s exploration objective is to delineate massive sulphide reservoirs that could be the source of high-grade nickel–copper-palladium lenses intercepted in shallower boreholes at the Samapleu deposits.
The Samapleu mineralization is typical of a layered, pipe-like Intrusion or conduit‐hosted nickel deposits. These rare types of intrusions host the world’s largest nickel‐copper deposits such as: Jinchuan (515 million tonnes (“Mt”) at 1.06% nickel), Voisey’s Bay (137Mt at 1.68% nickel), Kabanga (52Mt at 2.65% nickel), Eagle (4.5Mt at 3.33% nickel), Eagle Nest (20Mt at 1.68% nickel), Kalatongke (24Mt at 0.68% nickel), and N’komati (2.8Mt at 2.08% nickel).
Sama discovered the nickel-copper-cobalt mineralization when it discovered the Yacouba layered complex of mafic and ultramafic rock. This layered complex was created approximately 2.1 billion years ago by the intrusion of magma through the Man Shield. The Yacouba complex can be traced over a strike length of more than 30 kilometers within Sama’s properties in Côte d’Ivoire.
About Sama Resources Inc.
Sama is a Canadian-based mineral exploration and development company with projects in West Africa. On October 23, 2017, Sama announced that it had entered into a binding term sheet in view of forming a strategic partnership with HPX TechCo Inc., a private mineral exploration company in which mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland is a significant stakeholder, in order to develop its Côte d’Ivoire Nickel-Copper and Cobalt project in Côte d’Ivoire, West-Africa. For more information about Sama, please visit Sama’s website at http://www.samaresources.com.
