Market Equities Research - Market Bulletin   January 5, 2023 0:15 UTC

Québec Nickel $QNI Cashed-up for 2023 Ni-Cu-Co-PGE-Au Exploration Season

• After encountering spectacular success in the 2022 exploration season, QNI’s geological team, led by V.P. of Exploration Gary DeSchutter, M.Sc., P.Geo., is looking to generate success across multiple fronts in 2023 on its large (~15,000 hectares), 100%-owned, Ni-Cu-Co-PGE-Au Ducros Project – the geological team is planning to drill a number of targets believed to be highly prospective for new discovery. In-short, QNI knows what they have found to date is significant and its understanding of what has the potential to be there across the project is enormous.

• Independent Mining Analyst, Eric Lemieux, summarized matters well in November-2022, providing a noteworthy endorsement following a site visit of Québec Nickel Corp's Ducros Ni-Cu-PGE Project; "We estimate for the 7 intersections disclosed by QNI in the Fortin Sill system an average of 4.95m @ 0.72% Ni, 0.78% Cu, 1.32 g/t Pt-Pd-Au" -- Since then additional impressive results have come forth.

Share data, Capitalization, & Corporate info  Shares Outstanding:  110,842,205  Recently Traded: ~CDN$0.17/share (CSE: QNI)  52 Week High/Low: $0.32 / 0.09  Current Market Capitalization: ~$19 million CDN  Corporate Website: www.QuebecNickel.com

Fully financed to tackle 2023:

Québec Nickel Corp. (CSE: QNI) (OTCQB: QNICF) (Frankfurt: 71B) closed out 2022 by announcing it has completed the closing of its second and final tranche of its previously announced brokered private placement, raising a total of ~C$8.7 million to be primarily used for its 2023 exploration program. This news falls on the heels of an announcement regarding additional assay results from drilling completed at its Ducros Ni-Cu-Co-PGE-Au Project, 80 kilometres northeast of Val-d’Or, located in the prolific Abitibi Greenstone belt.

Exceptional Risk-Reward Metrics:

The company was formed in 2020 to specifically tackle Ducros after it was identified as an outlier with grades ~4 - 5 times what is found in the region for nickel, but also spectacular elevated copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium, and gold. This combination of high-grades across a mix of companion elements proximal exceptional infrastructure (all weather roads within meters, nearby power, rail, and a trained local workforce, in a mining-friendly region) sets-up a potential scenario with a low economic threshold; assuming continued exploration success, the ingredients are there to potentially become one of the lowest cost nickel concentrate producers. QNI currently has a nominal market cap of ~C$19 million (~110.8 million shares trading near ~C$0.17). The majority of the company shares are institutionally held, and the company is well capitalized to accomplish key objectives thru 2023. The share price of QNI appears poised for upside revaluation as continued news flow occurs, and as the significance of what Québec Nickel Corp. possesses is better appreciated by the market.

High-grade Ni-Cu-Co-PGE-Au Fortin Sill Deposit & big-upside for 2023 across the property:

Drilling to date (in only one season!) has indicated near-surface, high grade and bulk tonnage potential at the Fortin Sill target with significant upside potential as the Fortin Sill trend is +1 km in strike length. There is also similar potential, if not even larger, at the other targets at the Ducros project set to be tested for 2023.

 
QNI’s maiden multi-phase drill program began in Q1-2022; QNI completed just over 21,000 metres in 91 holes across the Ducros property. The majority of drilling in 2022 was focused on the Fortin Sill Ni-Cu-PGE deposit which is rapidly developing, starts at surface and appears amenable to a high-grade open pit scenario. Independent Mining Analyst, Eric Lemieux, summarized matters well in November-2022, provided a noteworthy endorsement following site visit of Québec Nickel Corp's Ducros Ni-Cu-PGE Project; "We estimate for the 7 intersections disclosed by QNI in the Fortin Sill system an average of 4.95m @ 0.72% Ni, 0.78% Cu, 1.32 g/t Pt-Pd-Au". Since then additional impressive results have come forth, the following Plan Map from the December 15, 2022 news release shows a sizeable Ni-Cu-PGE deposit is being advanced at the Fortin Sill Zone:

Figure 1. (above) Voluminous body of quality material is located in the above plan map from Dec. 15, 2022 news release. The plan map shows the locations of selected drill holes completed at the Fortin Sill Zone with Ni + Cu assays (%) in relation to the outline of the Fortin Sill discovery outcrop (see dashes in image above where high-grade stripped outcrop is now exposed at surface). Drill holes with new assay results reported in the Dec 15, 2022 news release are highlighted in orange i.e. QDG-22-30 through QDG-22-32 and QDG-22-38.

 
See the company’s corporate presentation [PDF] for a synopsis of impressive 2022 drill highlight results released to date:

https://rxud3d.a2cdn2.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Quebec-Nickel-Website-Presentation-1-1.pdf online.

 
Figure 2 (above) Updated Exploration Model for the Fortin Sill Zone -- the Ni-Cu-Co-PGE-Au mineralization at the Fortin Sill Zone occurs at or near the footwall contact of a large west-southwest-dipping embayment structure within the larger mafic to ultramafic Fortin Sill. The overall Fortin Sill intrusive body is interpreted to span several hundred metres or more in an approximate northwest-southeast trend and is characterized by the occurrence of a large blow-out, or embayment, at the Fortin Sill Zone. This refinement in the exploration model is being used to plan the next phase of work at Fortin Sill Zone and will likely include the drill testing of the newly modelled footwall contact along its entire surface, both along strike and at depth.

 
The 2022 drill program is now complete, and there remain numerous core assays pending at the lab to report near-term. Besides the Fortin Sill deposit, QNI also looked at targets that are highly prospective for new discovery in other areas of the property (e.g. its Ducros Ultramafic Sill Complex has recently received over 3,650 metres in 10 holes spanning 800 m across the interpreted north-south strike of the regional geological trend (assays are pending)).

2023 drilling target areas across the property are indicated by dashed outlines:

Figure 3. (above) Plan map of Québec Nickel’s Ducros property (red outline) showing the merged total field VTEMTM and drone magnetic data sets overlain on top of Québec Government geology. 2023 drilling target areas are indicated by dashed outlines. Drill targets comprise coincident geophysical anomalies (VTEM conductive features +/- magnetic highs responses +/- gravity features).

 
In-short, QNI knows what they have found to date is significant and its understanding of what has the potential to be there across the project is enormous.

 
Plans are in progress to launch winter work programs including up to 20,000 metres of new drilling in 2023. Details on targets will be forthcoming – QNI has invested a large amount of time and resources in 2022 developing a myriad of exploration datasets (UAV magnetic, VTEM, airborne gravity-gradiometer surveys, prospecting, geological mapping & biogeochemical surveys, etc...) to maximize success.

 
The geological team leadership, directors, and board of advisors are an impressive who's-who of nickel expertise with career accomplishments across the spectrum from nickel exploration & discovery, development, and major production. Gary DeSchutter, M.Sc., P.Geo., is Vice-President of Exploration for Québec Nickel Corp., he started his career with Falconbridge and transitioned to Anglo American for 6 years as part of their global nickel generation team. Gary joined Québec Nickel in February-2022 -- in-short, he picked Québec Nickel because he knows nickel and was attracted by the anomalous Nickel-Copper-Platinum Group Element (PGE) occurrences and elephant-size potential at Ducros.

The following URLs have been identified for additional insight on Québec Nickel Corp.:
 
Company website:
https://quebecnickel.com

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SEDAR: URL

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Q4-2022 site visit review by Mining Analyst, Eric Lemieux: URL

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Recent Mining Journal Review:
https://miningmarketwatch.net/qni.htm

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