A grant from the province in 2001 enabled prospector Murray McClaren to undertake an exploration program in the Harrison Lake area where he discovered a new nickel-copper occurrence. A grab sample taken from a 100 metre-wide outcrop of variably sulphidic quartz amphibolite schist yielded 0.19 per cent copper, 0.31 per cent nickel, 0.029 per cent cobalt, 0.032 per cent chromium and 0.08 grams per tonne palladium (Houle, Personal Communication, 2000). The observed sulphides are primarily pyrrhotite (up to 10 per cent) and chalcopyrite (trace).