I am wondering about the "iums" and if they are being tested on today's wonderful NR.
Feb 19, 2008 NR showed "iums".
DRILLING AT EAGLE ONE FURTHER DEFINES MINERALIZATION AND PGE TESTWORK REVEALS PRESENCE OF SIGNIFICANT RHODIUM AND OTHER ELEMENTS TORONTO, ONTARIO February 19, 2008 Noront Resources Ltd. (“Noront”) (TSX Venture: NOT) is pleased to announce the receipt of additional assays on hole NOT-07-20, to NOT-07-25 on its 100%- owned Eagle One occurrence within Noront’s Double Eagle Project in the McFauld’s Lake Area of northeastern Ontario. “Recently received platinum group element assay results have confirmed that Eagle One is enriched with Platinum group elements including; platinum, palladium, rhodium, osmium, iridium and ruthenium.” states Richard Nemis, President and CEO of Noront. The two new drills “Johnny and June” under contract with Orbit Drilling have begun testing various anomalies outside of the Eagle One occurrence. Progress on this exploration work will be provided in a timely manner. HIGHLIGHTS Precious group element test-work confirms presence of rhodium, osmium, ruthenium and iridium in selected samples. Hole NOT-07-05 between 111.5 meters and 115.6 meters down-hole. This 4.1 meter section averaged 3.2% copper, 3.62% nickel, 30.2 g/t platinum, 15.95 g/t palladium, 3.3 g/t gold, 8.1 g/t silver, 0.84 g/t rhodium, 0.15 g/t osmium, 0.21 g/t iridium and 0.42 g/t ruthenium.
