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METALLURGICAL TEST WORK CONFIRMS PENTLANDITE

Vancouver, B.C. – March 14, 2013. North American Nickel Inc. (TSX VENTURE: NAN) (OTCBB: WSCRF) (CUSIP: 65704T 108) North American Nickel ("NAN") is pleased to announce that it has received the first results of metallurgical studies performed by SGS Canada Inc. (“SGS”). SGS, using QEMSCAN analysis on samples of mineralized drill core from NAN’s 100% owned Maniitsoq Ni-Cu-Co-PGE sulphide project in southwest Greenland, has clearly identified the nickel mineralization as being pentlandite.
This is a positive first step for the metallurgy of Maniitsoq because pentlandite is the principle nickel mineral in the world
’s nickel sulphide camps.

On the completion of these metallurgical studies by SGS, NAN hopes to establish the macro parameters that will guide subsequent larger scale metallurgical testing of the multiple surface and near surface Ni, Cu, Co and PGM bearing sulphide prospects located within Maniitsoq’s 75 km by 15 km Greenland Norite belt.

The QEMSCAN analysis is conducted in three stages with stage one now complete and stage two and three in progress and results expected in April.

John Pattison, North American Nickel’s Chief Geologist states: “Stage one, the field stitch (FS) imagery, covers only small sections of core, but the results are very encouraging as we can now confirm medium and coarse-grained pentlandite in two of the three samples. We look forward to receiving the results of the particle mineral analysis (PMA) as they will provide us with an indication of the liberation characteristics of the sulphides. While the Maniitsoq project is at a relatively early stage, it is not too early to begin investigating the metallurgical characteristics of the mineralization, as we plan for success in drilling several targets in 2013.”




Former CEO and Chair of Falconbridge, Alex Balogh, Joins North American Nickel's Advisory Board

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - March 12, 2013) -North American Nickel Inc. (TSX VENTURE: NAN) (OTCBB:WSCRF) (CUSIP: 65704T 108) North American Nickel ("NAN") is pleased to announce that Mr. Alex Balogh has joined the Company's Advisory Board.

Mr. Balogh is the former Chairman and CEO of Falconbridge Ltd., Deputy Chairman of Noranda Inc. and CEO of Noranda Minerals Inc.

He has served as Chairman, International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME), Chairman, Council of Mining and Metallurgical Institutes, Director, Mining Association of Canada, and as a member of other not for profit national and international organizations. Mr. Balogh also sits on The Sentient Council, an advisory body to The Sentient Group, and is a current member of the Advisory Board of Hatch Associates. Mr. Balogh has at various times sat on the Board of Directors of fifteen listed companies.

Rick Mark, CEO of North American Nickel states: "The Company is honoured that Alex has consented to help guide us at this exciting juncture in NAN's history. As we plan for success in 2013 at our 100% owned nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM sulphide Maniitsoq project in southwest Greenland, his years of world-wide mining experience will assist us in all aspects of developing a new Nickel camp".

Mr. Balogh is a metallurgical engineer and has more than 40 years of experience in the mining and metallurgical industry.


Company’s website www.northamericannickel.com


Symbols: NAN.V / WSCRF.OTC







Pentlandite: World Occurrence’s

Pentlandite is found within the lower margins of mineralised layered intrusions, the prime example being the Bushveld igneous complex, South Africa, the Voiseys Bay troctolite intrusive complex in Canada, the Duluth gabbro, in North America, and various other localities throughout the world. In these locations it forms an important nickel ore.

Pentlandite is also the principal ore mineral won from Kambalda type komatiitic nickel ore deposits, the type examples of which are in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia. Similar deposits exist at Nkomati, Namibia, in the Thompson Belt, Canada, and a few examples from Brazil.

Pentlandite, but primarily chalcopyrite and PGEs, are won from the supergiant Norilsk nickel deposit, in trans-Siberian Russia.

The Sudbury deposit in Ontario, Canada, is associated with a meteorite impact crater. Pentlandite-pyrite-pyrrhotite ore in this location was formed from an extensive melt sheet formed by melting of rock post impact, which became sulfur saturated and formed extensive sheetlike ore deposits.


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentlandite