From what I gather those holes were used for down hole testing. And they may have started drilling from those findings a few weeks ago. From 9/29 NR.
Exploration Update
Noront has completed a deep platform drill hole to investigate the UTEM-5 anomaly at its AT5 target. This hole was drilled sub-parallel to the favourable footwall contact in order to be used for follow up geophysical surveys and wedge cuts, as warranted. Drilling was completed to a depth of 1,300 metres with the ultramafic contact being intersected at 828 metres depth. A recently completed down-hole electro-magnetic survey identified an off-hole anomaly of moderate size and conductance at approximately 1,000 metres depth. The nature and size of the anomaly and its association with the host ultramafic unit is suggestive of a sulfide system which appears to be strengthening to the southwest.
The Company will expand its surface UTEM-5 survey to the southwest to test for massive sulfide which may be connected to this conductor at depth prior to initiating any wedge cuts or further drilling. Planning for this surface UTEM-5 survey extension is underway and the survey should be completed in the next week.
“Our approach for identifying deep conductors in geologically favorable nickel-copper sulfide environments is working well,” said Vice President of Exploration, Ryan Weston. “We are using deep-seeing, industry-leading time-domain EM geophysical surveys. Follow-up bore-hole surveying resolved the surface UTEM-5 anomaly significantly and is allowing us to focus in on possible mineralization at depth at AT5.”
