Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Exploration in Southern Québec
Kremer is a 100%-owned nickel-copper-cobalt exploration project located within ZEC Lavigne in the Lanaudière region of Québec, approximately 90 km north of downtown Montréal.
The active exploration corridor is located in forested terrain accessible by logging roads. There are no permanent residents on the claims covering the current exploration area, and the centres of the three nearest municipalities are approximately 15 km away.
Project at a Glance
- 100% owned by Ni-Co Energy
- Approximately 90 km north of Montréal
- 22 drill holes completed at Kremer-1
- Approximately 4,200 metres drilled
- Ni-Cu-Co sulfides confirmed by drilling
- Kremer-2 is the highest-priority undrilled target
- No mineral resource has been defined to date
The Investment Opportunity
Kremer-1 has demonstrated that the geological system can produce nickel-, copper- and cobalt-bearing sulfides.
Kremer-2 represents the next and most important test of the project’s potential scale. The target combines certified surface mineralization with an integrated electromagnetic, magnetic and gravity signature and has never been drill-tested.
The principal question is straightforward:
Can the Ni-Cu-Co-bearing sulfide system confirmed at Kremer-1 form mineralized zones with meaningful true widths, continuity and scale at Kremer-2?
The next drilling campaign is intended to start answering that question.
The 2023 drilling program totalled approximately 4,200 metres in 22 holes. Approximately 41% of the holes intersected semi-massive to massive sulfide zones. Laboratory assays of 420 samples confirmed nickel, copper and cobalt mineralization.
Reported intervals represent apparent widths.
Kremer-2: Ni-Co Energy’s highest-priority drill target
Multiple geophysical signatures converge at Kremer-2, where surface mineralization has also been confirmed.
uOttawa Collaboration
A two-year collaboration with the University of Ottawa’s Newmont Chair in Economic Geology aims to refine Kremer’s geological model and improve understanding of the controls on Ni-Cu-Co mineralization.
Kremer-1: Proof of the Mineralized System
The 2023 drilling campaign at Kremer-1 totalled approximately 4,200 metres in 22 holes.
Nine of the 22 holes, or approximately 41%, intersected semi-massive to massive sulfide zones. Several additional holes intersected disseminated sulfides. Approximately 420 selected drill-core samples were analyzed for nickel, copper and cobalt.
Reported results include:
- 0.60 metre grading 2.36% Ni, 0.51% Cu and 0.18% Co
- 2.95 metres grading 1.73% Ni, 0.85% Cu and 0.16% Co
- 11.75 metres grading 0.28% Ni, 0.18% Cu and 0.02% Co
- 0.60 metre grading 0.57% Ni, 3.68% Cu and 0.15% Co
Surface prospecting and trenching also identified nickel- and copper-bearing sulfides at regular intervals over approximately 700 metres of the Kremer-1 area.
Geometry Still to Be Defined
Borehole electromagnetic modelling completed in 2024 indicated that most of the 2023 holes were drilled in an orientation subparallel to the interpreted dip of the mineralization.
The reported intervals therefore represent apparent widths and not necessarily true widths.
Future drilling at Kremer-1 will be designed to intersect the interpreted mineralized geometry at a higher angle to better establish true width, continuity and orientation.
View the best results from the 2023 drilling campaign →
Two new zones rich in mineralization were identified
- Southeast zone (Kremer-2/3), where no prior prospecting had been carried out.
- New mineralized showings rich in nickel, copper, and cobalt, up to 7 km from the drilled zone of Kremer-1.
- Northwest zone (Kremer-1), where drilling has already been carried out.
- Surface mineralization every 25 to 50 metres over approximately 700 metres;
- Two trenches excavated to a depth of 1 metre.
Kremer-2: The Highest-Priority Undrilled Target
Kremer-2 is located southeast of Kremer-1 along the broader northwest–southeast-trending prospective corridor.
It is Ni-Co Energy’s highest-priority undrilled target because several independent lines of evidence support the same target area:
- nickel-, copper- and cobalt-bearing sulfides confirmed at surface;
- a more extensive and complex TDEM conductor distribution than at the drilled Kremer-1 area;
- associated magnetic and gravity responses; and
- a geological setting considered favourable for sulfide mineralization.
Geophysical anomalies are exploration targets and do not establish mineralization, grade, thickness or economic potential. Kremer-2 must be tested by drilling.
Certified Surface Assays
On July 22, 2026, Ni-Co Energy announced certified assay results from 36 selected surface samples collected in October 2025 from Kremer-2 and Kremer-3.
Thirty-three of the samples came from Kremer-2.
Eleven of those 33 samples returned more than 0.5% Ni. Highlighted results include:
- 1.21% Ni, 0.14% Cu and 0.10% Co
- 1.03% Ni, 0.30% Cu and 0.18% Co
- 0.89% Ni, 0.15% Cu and 0.10% Co
- 0.69% Ni, 0.37% Cu and 0.23% Co
The Kremer-2 samples came from multiple sites, most located along an approximately 2 km geophysical corridor. The results demonstrate that the sulfide occurrences are not limited to a single outcrop.
They do not demonstrate that mineralization is continuous between the individual sample sites.
Read the July 22, 2026 news release and view the complete assay table →
Why Kremer-2 Matters
Kremer-1 established that Ni-Cu-Co-bearing sulfides are present within the Kremer system.
Kremer-2 provides the project’s principal test of scale because it combines:
- certified surface mineralization;
- a larger undrilled conductive target;
- associated magnetic and gravity features; and
- multiple mineralized surface locations.
Drilling will be required to determine:
- the geological source of the conductors;
- whether Ni-Cu-Co-bearing sulfides continue below surface;
- true widths;
- grades;
- lateral and depth continuity; and
- whether the mineralization forms larger accumulations.
Kremer-2 is a compelling exploration target. It is not yet a deposit.
Next Exploration Program
The next planned drilling campaign will focus primarily on Kremer-2 while also improving the geological understanding of Kremer-1.
Drill holes will be designed to cross the interpreted target geometry rather than repeat the predominantly down-dip orientation of the 2023 program.
Borehole electromagnetic surveys are planned to:
- characterize intersected conductive zones;
- determine their orientation and extent;
- detect conductors located near drill holes; and
- guide follow-up drilling.
Drilling and borehole EM results will be integrated into an updated three-dimensional geological and geophysical model.
Kremer-3
Kremer-3 is an undrilled follow-up target located farther southeast along the broader prospective corridor.
Three selected samples were collected there in 2025. Additional prospecting, mapping and geophysical work will be required before the target can be properly evaluated and considered for drilling.
Kremer-2 and Kremer-3 should currently be considered distinct exploration areas. Mineralized continuity between them has not been demonstrated.
Project Status
Exploration is ongoing. No mineral resource, mineral reserve or economic study has been established for the Kremer Project.
Selected surface samples are selective by nature and are not necessarily representative of mineralization across the property.
Geophysical anomalies represent exploration targets only. They may be caused by sulfides, but also by graphite-bearing or sulfide-bearing metasedimentary rocks, oxide minerals or other geological units.
There is no assurance that future exploration work will result in the discovery of an economic mineral deposit.
The scientific and technical information contained on this page has been reviewed and approved by Marc Boivin, P. Geo., a director of the Company, who is a “qualified person” as defined by National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. Mr. Boivin is not independent of the Company, as he is a director.
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