Cyclone Metals Limited announced that gold specimens and nuggets have been recovered from test pits, at the 100% owned Nickol River Gold Project (NRP) located 10km east of Karratha in the West Pilbara of Western Australia. A Program of Work (PoW) for the Nickol River Gold Project was approved by Department of Mines, Industry, Regulation and Safety (DMIRS), for 18 test pits 20m x 10m by 1m deep over tenements M47/87, M47/401, M47/127, M47/421 and M47/577. Specimen gold within quartz veins was recovered from the first test pit within M47/127, up to 712 grams in weight.

The vein gold indicates that primary gold is the potential source of the eluvial gold mined from the area over the past 140 years, and the nuggets also recovered from M47/127.