Nickel Creek moves toward PEA at Nickel Shaw in Yukon

Nickel Creek Platinum (TSX: NCP; US-OTC: NCPCF) is wrapping up phase 2 metallurgical testing at its Nickel Shaw polymetallic project near Destruction Bay, Yukon, about 317 km northwest of Whitehorse, and says it will announce the results by the end of July. The company will then package the study into a preliminary economic assessment it aims to table this fall. “Any previous technical reports that were done have now been thrown out the window, and we advise not to look at them,” Nickel Creek vice-president of corporate development Graeme Jennings says in an interview with The Northern Miner on a sunny day in Dawson, Yukon. He sits next to Heather White, the company’s chief operating officer, in a big white tent at a conference held by the Yukon Mining Alliance. “This’ll be the first real economics coming out on this project,” he adds. Continue reading at The Northern Miner.