b'FEATUREPentladite eyes - West Pickle Zone.out. That thing sat there for 40 years Pettigrew says the teamuntil we went out and ran a soil line over it, and we got a lot of nickel and soil recognized it as an untestedanomaly, and that kind of got the ball rolling for us. conductor, and they knew thatPettigrew says the team recognized it as an untested conductor, and they there was nickel preservedknew that there was nickel preserved within the batholiths from the two other within the batholiths from theshowings. Weve got to remember how far away these things are. Theyre almost 20 km apart from the other two other showings.showing, he explains, so it wasnt like these things were proximal, and thats really why were coming into this new Why was Palladium One exploring thaton the end of one line they picked upnickel campwe now have high-grade area in the first place? Part of it wasan anomaly at Smoke Lake, but oncenickel, including an undrilled zone that there were a few other discoveriesagain, the prejudice of geologists playscalled Cupa Lake, which stretches at the original Tyko Zone and thein here. 30km.RJ Zone that were made in the earlyNot that those geologists missedPettigrew says Palladium One is looking 2000s, notes Pettigrew, The Smokeobvious clues. It was at the very end ofat a new nickel camp developing at Tyko Lake anomaly was actually found bythe line, continues Pettigrew. It wasand is now leaning into doing a lot of Noranda years ago. In the 1980s, theythe middle of the BlackPic Batholith,grassroots work, as he puts it, to kind had flown a large EM survey lookingand those werent the rocks they wereof get ourselves into the ballpark of for another Geco VMS deposit, andlooking for, so they never checked itwhere we need to be here. There were 12 ONTARIO PROSPECTOR SUMMER 2023'