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First Atlantic Nickel & Cobalt Corp.

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First Atlantic Nickel & Cobalt Corp.

Investor website: https://fanickel.com/

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First Atlantic Nickel & Cobalt Corp. (TSX-V: FAN | OTCQB: FANCF) is a Canadian mineral exploration company developing the 100%-owned Atlantic Nickel Project, a large-scale nickel project strategically located near existing infrastructure in Newfoundland, Canada. The Project’s nickel occurs as awaruite, a natural nickel-iron alloy containing approximately 75% nickel with no-sulfur and no-sulfides.

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Mineral resource
Awaruite at Pipestone XL formed through serpentinization, the reaction of water with ultramafic rock, in which hydrogen liberated by the alteration reduces nickel and iron into a native metallic alloy. The result is a naturally occurring nickel-iron-cobalt alloy rather than nickel chemically bound within a sulphide, hydroxide, magnesium-silicate or oxide mineral. Electron microprobe analysis by SGS confirmed that the awaruite mineral phase analyzed from the RPM Zone averages 77.62% nickel and 1.69% cobalt, with grades as high as 86.68% nickel and 6.05% cobalt. The same work identified chromite as the chromium-bearing mineral phase, with chromite mineral-phase compositions grading up to 60.2% Cr₂O₃. These are mineral-phase measurements rather than bulk-rock grad.
Projects
["Pipestone XL is First Atlantic’s wholly owned, district-scale project spanning the entire 30-kilometre Pipestone Ophiolite Complex in central Newfoundland, a belt of ultramafic rock enriched in nickel, cobalt, and chromium. The Project hosts multiple zones of awaruite (Ni₃Fe) mineralization, including RPM, Alloy Max, Super Gulp, Atlantic Lake, and Chrome Pond. The RPM Zone is the most advanced, with drilling having outlined magnetically recoverable awaruite over more than 1.2 kilometres of strike and more than 800 metres of width. Drilling is ongoing at Alloy Max, a second large-scale zone spanning approximately 4 kilometres of strike and up to 1.5 kilometres in width, making it larger than the RPM Zone. Awaruite at Pipestone XL is the product of serpentinization, which drives sulphur out of the system and leaves a sulphur-free alloy which carries no acid mine drainage risk and can be concentrated by the Company’s ONSHORE MAX™ process without smelting, roasting, or high-pressure acid leaching. This smelter-free pathway addresses the midstream bottleneck in North America, where the United States has no operating nickel smelters and only two remain in Canada, and supports a vertically integrated supply chain moving directly from mine to downstream battery refining, stainless steel and specialty alloy production. The Company is also evaluating secondary chromium mineralization as a potential co-product, along with low-carbon Engineered Mineral Hydrogen (EMH) in partnership with VEMA Hydrogen."]
Leadership
Gary Stanley (Senior Strategic Advisor, Former Director of the Office of Critical Minerals and Metals at the United States Department of Commerce with over 40 years of experience in critical minerals and strategic metals trade policy.), Adrian Smith (CEO)

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