Aurania 'treasure' hunt turns up French nickel beach sand

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Aurania 'treasure' hunt turns up French nickel beach sand
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Archives turn up another opportunity

Aurania Resources, a gold explorer whose archival research is the basis of its Lost Cities-Cutucu gold project in Ecuador, has now found a nickel beach sand deposit in France from scouring old records.Aurania's consultant geologist, Stefan Ansermet, found a one-paragraph reference to an accumulation of natural nickel-iron alloy originating from asbestos mine waste disposed of in the Mediterranean Sea, in a 1968 Geological Survey of France report.

"A nickel prospect where a potential nickel-matte furnace feedstock requires no need for drilling, blasting, or beneficiation and can be shipped from Corsica direct to a purchaser sounds like a dream scenario," said Aurania Resources chief executive Dr Keith Barron.Both awaruite and magnetite are heavy minerals easily recovered from beach sand by gravity techniques.

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