North American Nickel Inc announced that it has commenced a field campaign to evaluate prospective areas within its 4,841 square kilometers exclusive mineral exploration licence. Electromagnetic anomalies, identified from a recent re interpretation of a 1995 GeoTEM fixed wing survey, along with other areas of interest derived from compilation of previous work and satellite imagery will be ground checked in order to prioritize areas for helicopter borne time domain electromagnetic surveying planned for September and October.

As described in a NAN press release dated August 15th 2011, the Maniitsoq property hosts numerous nickel-copper sulphide occurrences associated with norite intrusions. The only previous drilling on these intrusions occurred between 1965 and 1972. The holes tested exposed mineralization, and shallow geophysical anomalies associated with exposed norite. The average hole length was approximately 45 m, but significant intersections were reported including:

9.85 meters averaging 2.67% Ni and 0.60% Cu at Imiak Hill
12.89 meters averaging 2.24% Ni and 0.63% Cu at Fossilik Showing

NAN plans to integrate the results from the field program with its existing database of historical work to optimize the upcoming helicopter borne TEM survey. The helicopter TEM system has much higher signal to noise ratios than the 1995 fixed wing survey and the helicopter can better maintain the required altitude above the ground to maximize the detection of geophysical signals from nickel copper sulphide mineralization.