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Aurora Platinum Corp. Exploration Update Drilling Resumes on its Sudbury, Ontario Projects, and Commences on its Temiscamingue, Quebec Project.

Publication: Business Wire
Publication Date: 20-JAN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Aurora Platinum Corp. (TSX VENTURE:ARP) reports today that drilling resumed on its Sudbury projects, and a new drill program will be initiated on its Temiscamingue Joint Venture Project with Fieldex Exploration Ltd.

On January 10, 2005, drilling resumed on hole OF-02, a Foy Joint Venture (Aurora 60%/Falconbridge 40%) hole targeting a 250 metre by 300 metre conductor modeled from a previously run borehole UTEM 4 (electromagnetic) survey (drillhole OF-01). The conductor is at a vertical depth of 880 metres and is interpreted to lie along the hanging wall of the Foy Offset Dyke in the vicinity of a modeled flexure in the dyke. This target is located 900 metres east and down plunge of the near surface NI-15 intersection (see News Release dated February 12, 2003) that reported an intersection of massive sulphide from surface to 17.87 metres grading 1.69% nickel, 0.43% copper, 0.07% cobalt, 0.23 grams per tonne gold, 0.64 grams per tonne platinum and 0.88 grams per tonne palladium, and included a 6.02 metre higher grade zone from 9.65 metres to 15.67 metres that gave a weighted average grade of 4.38% nickel, 0.93% copper, 0.16% cobalt, 0.55 grams per tonne gold, 1.27 grams per tonne platinum and 1.75 grams per tonne palladium. Drilling along this corridor has...

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