Noble Mineral talks AI results for Crawford property

Jul 18, 2018

2018-07-17 10:12 ET – News Release

Mr. Vance White reports

PROJECT 81 EXPLORATION UPDATE – CRAWFORD TWP. PROPERTY CARDS-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) REPORT

Noble Mineral Exploration Inc. has published the artificial intelligence (AI) exploration potential results for the Crawford township property that has been optioned to Spruce Ridge Resources. The AI study has been recently completed by Albert Mining Inc. of Brossard, Que., using its proprietary computer-aided resources detection software (CARDS) artificial intelligence technology and data mining techniques to further enhance and upgrade the target selection process within Project 81.

CARDS is a state-of-the-art computer system that uses the latest artificial intelligence and pattern recognition algorithms to analyze large digital exploration data sets, such as with Project 81, and produce exploration targets. CARDS uses many layers of gridded data (variables) to learn the signature of known mineralized sites (positive cells) in a given area, which are then scored and cells with high similarity to the sought signature are identified.

Project 81 is a 70,000-hectare, underexplored, contiguous land package covering 12 townships just three kilometres north of the Kidd Creek mine. The Crawford township property’s (approximately 17,000 hectares/171.28 square kilometres) target objectives were copper-zinc and nickel targets. The results of the study generated 11 copper-zinc targets that show 80-per-cent-plus similarity prediction using the AGEO (aggregation of geo-referenced model) copper-zinc model and nine nickel targets that show 80-per-cent-plus similarity prediction using the AGEO nickel model. AGEO is one of two algorithms used to determine and validate the accuracy of prediction of the model, the other being the C-cluster algorithm, which is used to compare and validate predictions generated by the AGEO algorithm.

The study incorporated a total of 2,632 training points that were subjected to evaluation using merged helicopter-borne time-domain electromagnetic (HTEM) and magnetic surveys completed by Triumph Geophysics in 2017 for Noble Minerals Exploration, at 25-metre grid spacing, together with historical diamond drill hole database compiled by Orix Geoscience of Toronto, to construct the copper-zinc and nickel predictive models. CARDS uses data mining techniques and pattern recognition algorithms to analyze and compile the exploration data into many layers of gridded variables, in order to identify target zones with high statistical similarity to known areas of mineralization.

Noble Mineral’s Project 81 is located within the Kidd-Munro assemblage of the western Abitibi subprovince in Ontario and is one of the largest ultramafic-rich volcanic successions of any age in the world. It hosts the giant Kidd Creek VMS (volcanic-associated massive sulphide) deposit, an important example of bimodal-mafic (ultramafic) VMS deposits.

Randy S.C. Singh, PGeo (Ontario), PEng (Ontario), vice-president, exploration and project development, a qualified person as such term is defined by National Instrument 43-101, has verified the data disclosed in this news release and has otherwise reviewed and approved the technical information in this news release on behalf of Noble.

About Noble Mineral Exploration Inc.

Noble Mineral Exploration is a Canadian-based junior exploration company that, apart from its shareholdings in MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd. and its interest in the Wawa-Holdsworth gold exploration property in Wawa, Ont., has, as its flagship program, Project 81, a contiguous land package of approximately approximately 70,000 hectares covering 12 townships immediately north of the Kidd Creek mine (celebrating its 51st year of operation). Project 81 has seen very limited mineral exploration over the last 50 years and has had a number of historical drill-indicated gold, copper, lead-zinc, silver and nickel showings.

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