1970 1970 Management group takes control of "New Insco Mines Ltd." 1972 1972 Hebecourt, 1.2 million ton copper rich deposit discovered in the Noranda mining camp. 1973 1973 Uranium exploration begins at Prairie Lake. 1979 1979 Nuinsco Resources Ltd. is successor to New Insco Mines Ltd. 1981 1981 Work begins at Cameron Lake gold deposit, Kenora. 1983 1983 Gold resource identified at Cameron Lake. 1987 1987 Aldermac 7 and 8 zones (Cu/Zn/Au/Ag) discovered near Royn-Noranda, Quebec. 1994 1994 Rainy River deposit, 17 Zone (Au) discovered. 1995 1995 Rainy River deposit, 34 Zone (Ni/Cu/Au/PGE) discovered. 1999 1999 Lac Rocher Ni deposit discovered in Quebec.
2000 2000 Mel sulphide nickel property, Manitoba, optioned from Inco Limited. 20012001 Minago sulphide nickel property, Manitoba, acquired from Black Hawk Mining. 2004 2004 Nuinsco expands into Turkey (Berta Cu/Au porphyry) and Saskatchewan (Diabase Peninsula property). 2006 2006 Chibougamau mining camp entered via agreement with Campbell Resources. 2007 2007
2010 2010
2011 2011
- Nuinsco & Ocean Partners Complete Transfer of Ownership of Chibougamau Assets to CBay Minerals.
- Prairie Lake Property ETMI increased to 515-630 million tonnes.
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January 13, 2010
On January 13, 2010 - Nuinsco announced that P&E Mining Consultants Inc. completed an Exploration Target Mineralization Inventory (ETMI) that set the target estimate for the two areas drill-tested at Prairie Lake, the SW Zone and Jim´s Showing, between 330 and 360 million tonnes averaging 3.5% to 3.7% P2O5 (phosphorous) and 0.12% to 0.14% Nb2O5 (niobium, 1.2 to 1.4 kg/tonne). In addition to phosphorous and niobium, the suite of minerals of economic significance includes tantalum, uranium and rare earth elements (including lanthanum, cerium, samarium, neodymium and yttrium.
All exploration work is supervised by Paul Jones, President, who acts as QP under National Instrument 43-101.
