First Point Minerals Corporation has announced positive drill results for the remaining 27 of the 36 holes completed during the 2011 drilling campaign at the Decar nickel iron alloy project in central British Columbia.

The Decar project is managed by Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration Canada Inc, an affiliate of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.

The drill results confirm earlier indications of the presence of long intervals of relatively uniform nickel grades. Highlights from this second and final batch of results of the 2011 program include:

11BAP-09 226m of 0.132% magnetically recovered nickel
11BAP-13 208m of 0.144%
11BAP-17 269m of 0.119%
11BAP-20 269m of 0.134%
11BAP-21 249m of 0.129%
11BAP-23 268m of 0.125%
11BAP-29 290m of 0.129%
11BAP-32 240m of 0.114%
11BAP-35 293m of 0.121%

The reported nickel grades are based on a threshold of 0.10%. Intercepts of non mineralized dykes greater than 1 meter wide are reported as zero grade.

Magnetically recovered nickel is the nickel content recovered by magnetic separation using a Davis Tube followed by standard assaying procedures to determine the nickel assay of the concentrate; in effect a mini scale metallurgical test. This procedure recovers the highly magnetic nickel iron alloy, as well as any other magnetic material, including magnetite, a primary ore mineral in many iron ores. Cliffs employs large scale magnetic separation methods in several of its operating iron ore mines, and the Davis Tube method was used to provide a more accurate measure of variability in recoverable nickel. The Davis Tube method is the global, industry standard geometallurgical test for magnetic recovery operations and exploration projects.

The previously released 2010 drill results were reanalyzed using the Davis Tube technique to assist in the interpretation of the geological model in preparation of the forthcoming mineral resource estimate.