01:31 PM EDT, 04/11/2025 (MT Newswires) -- ZEB Nickel ( ZBNIF ) on Friday said it completed a high-resolution airborne geophysical survey over its Zeb Nickel Project in South Africa, incorporating both gravity and magnetic data, designed to enhance the company's understanding of the underlying geological structures.

The company said the newly acquired dataset confirmed the presence of a long-lived ultramafic magmatic plumbing system connecting the Uitloop I and II bodies. The survey further highlighted several major NE-SW fault zones, interpreted to be part of a regional fault network, that likely acted as magma conduits and trap sites for sulfide mineralisation.

ZEB Nickel ( ZBNIF ) noted that the airborne data strengthened its exploration thesis that multiple zones of sulfide mineralisation - disseminated, semi-massive and potentially massive - are vertically stacked and associated with a feeder system analogous to those at Ivanhoe Mines' Platreef Project and African Rainbow Minerals' Nkomati Nickel Mine hosted in the Uitkomst Intrusion.

"This new dataset, combined with our recent drill results, sets the stage for the delineation of a higher-grade nickel-PGE resource," said exploration vice-president Richard Montjoie. "Our upcoming drilling campaign will build directly off this work, with the goal of declaring a maiden NI 43-101 compliant resource that reflects the true value of the high-grade sulfide mineralisation we're seeing across the project."

The airborne data was flown at no cost to the company.

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