Fugro Completes Highly Technical Airborne Survey on the Four Corners Project

Last week Triple Nine succeeded in contracting Fugro Airborne Surveys of Mississauga Ontario, the most versatile and technologically advanced airborne survey company in the world, to complete a helicopter-borne HELITEM Electromagnetic and magnetite geophysical survey.  Fugro’s HELITEM system is the world’s most powerful helicopter electromagnetic system and ensures the greatest depth of exploration possible for any airborne electromagnetic system.  (For further information on Fugro visit their website at www.fugroairborne.com). 

TNR was very fortunate to avail of the Fugro survey as they were in western Newfoundland completing a large airborne survey for another mining company.  (The area covered by the Four Corners Project is small when compared to larger resource projects and normally a large geophysical service company such as Fugro, would not transport its helicopter and equipment to survey a project area the size of the Four Corners). 

Fugro advises the preliminary results from the survey should be available by the end of June with a final interpretation report and maps to be delivered later in July.  The magnetic component of the survey provides high-resolution magnetic responses; superior to the results obtained from the ground magnetic surveys completed to date, and therefore will provide more detailed information in selecting areas for follow-up diamond drilling. 

The Four Corners Project will also benefit from this highly technical airborne survey as it also includes an electrical component, which searches for conductors down to a depth of 500 metres (this highly powerful system has the capability to search down to these depths below surface).  Electrical conductors are produced by concentrations of metals such as nickel and copper, often associated with the type of magnetic enriched mineralization occurring at Four Corners, and therefore the HELITEM survey is going to provide further valuable information on the mineralizing potential on the project which could not be evaluated from ground geophysical surveys. 

TNR Chairman Mr. Len Muise notes the ability for Triple Nine to achieve this highly technical survey by a world leader in geophysical surveying will add invaluable information to understanding the mineralizing potential on the Four Corners Project and will greatly assist with identifying drill targets.