Nordic Nickel Limited announced that the second of two diamond drill rigs has now been delivered to the Company's Pulju Nickel Project in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt in northern Finland. The delivery of the second diamond rig marks another key milestone in the Company's inaugural exploration program where drilling is already well underway at the Hotinvaara Prospect following the delivery of the first diamond rig1 earlier this month. The second diamond rig is the more powerful of the two rigs now operating at Hotinvaara and is available for Nordic's exclusive use over the next three years under the agreement that was negotiated with Finland's leading exploration drilling company, Kati Drilling Oy, prior to the IPO in June 2022.

It is intended that this second rig will operate continuously at Pulju for 14 months and will be used initially to test the base of the cumulate layer where accumulations of higher-grade massive sulphide nickel are typically encountered, along with the deeper geophysical electromagnetic anomalies identified during the 2022 geophysical surveys.