The Hopedale Nickel (±Copper-Cobalt) Project is located approximately 90 kilometres west of the town of Hopedale in Labrador, Canada and 90 kilometres south of Voisey’s Bay Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Mine. The Project consists of 106 claims totaling 26.5 square kilometres and is 100% owned by Anteros Metals Inc. The geological setting bears similarities to the rocks and structures that host the Voisey’s Bay Eastern Deeps Deposit, expected to produce 500,000 tonnes of Nickel by 2034.
The Project lies within the Nain Province near the suture of the Churchill and Nain Provinces formed during the Torngat Orogen. Archean gneisses of the Nain Province were intruded by a series of igneous rocks during periods of intracontinental rifting resulting in the Nain Plutonic Suite and the Harp Lake Intrusive Complex, anorthositic to gabbroic rocks highly-prospective for nickel mineralization. Middle Proterozoic diabase dikes trend northeast and cross-cut all units.
The Nain Plutonic Suite is host to the world-class Voisey’s Bay Nickel-Copper-Cobalt sulphide deposit.
Southwestern portions of the property are underlain by gabbroic and anorthositic rocks of the Harp Lake Intrusive Complex, highly prospective for sulphide related mineralization. Northwestern portions of the property overlie granitic to monzonitic rocks. All units are cut by harp dikes, a series of northeast-trending gabbro dikes also associated with nickel-copper-cobalt sulphide mineralization.
Untested electromagnetic conductors within anorthositic rocks on the Property may be resultant from deeper, disseminated mineralization, as known to occur at the Eastern Deeps Deposit of the Voisey’s Bay Ni-Cu-Co Mine. Sediment surveying on the Property has resulted in anomalous nickel values, coincident with elevated copper.