Released on = September 7, 2006, 11:59 am

Press Release Author = Hard Creek Nickel

Industry = Industrial

Press Release Summary = ( Vancouver) – Mark Jarvis, President of Hard Creek Nickel
Corporation today released analytical results from 17 diamond drill

Press Release Body = September 6, 2006
Trading Symbol: TSX.V – HNC
Hard Creek intersects 71 meters of 0.4% Ni near surface
( Vancouver) – Mark Jarvis, President of Hard Creek Nickel Corporation today
released analytical results from 17 diamond drill holes (DDH), totaling 4,763
meters, from the ongoing drill program at its 100% owned Turnagain Project, located
70 km east of Dease Lake in British Columbia. Drilling continues with three drill
rigs and core from an additional 18 holes is being analyzed by Acme Laboratory in
Vancouver.
Mineralization comprises disseminated to blebby intercumulus pyrrhotite and
pentlandite, with local net-textured intervals, hosted by dunite and wehrlite of the
Turnagain ultramafic complex. The total nickel values reported below include nickel
in both sulphide and non-sulphide minerals.
Six of the reported core holes were drilled to the northwest of the Horsetrail
deposit to test for extensions to the known nickel mineralization delineated between
1970 and 2003. All of these holes intersected mineralization with DDH 06-126
encountering a zone of higher nickel grades, near surface, as follows:
DDH 06-126: 494.9 m, from 6.5 – 501.4 m @ 0.234 % Ni
including 115.5m, from 6.5 – 122m @ 0.33% Ni
including 71.5 m, from 6.5 – 78m @ 0.40% Ni
including 40 m, from 38 – 78 m. @ 0.53% Ni
”We are very encouraged by the results from holes 06-126 and 127,” said Mr. Jarvis.
“We are preparing seven additional drill sites in order to further evaluate this
area.”
Drill hole locations can be viewed on a plan map at
http://www.hardcreeknickel.com/drill2006.htm. Holes from the Northwest area are
summarized below:
Hole # From (m) To (m) Length (m) Ni % Co %
06-121 6.1 124 117.9 0.23 0.011
132 224 92 0.30 0.011
incl. 164 176 12 0.45 0.022
264 297.7 EOH 33.7 0.26 0.014

06-122 9.6 80 70.4 0.29 0.017
incl. 16 28 12 0.37 0.015
incl. 60 72 12 0.31 0.021
208 301 EOH 93 0.29 0.014
incl. 208 220 12 0.33 0.010
Hole # From (m) To (m) Length (m) Ni % Co %
06-124 9 230.15 EOH 221.15 0.22 0.011

06-125 Results Pending

06-126 6.5 122 115.5 0.33 0.015
incl. 6.5 78 71.5 0.40 0.018
incl. 38 78 40 0.53 0.018
134 198 64 0.20 0.015
incl. 134 154 20 0.30 0.013
206 302 96 0.24 0.014
incl. 250 266 16 0.34 0.019
310 358 48 0.25 0.013
370 430 60 0.24 0.016

06-127 24 108 84 0.24 0.015
64 80 16 0.31 0.019
120 212 92 0.26 0.013
incl. 144 164 20 0.40 0.014
incl. 172 196 24 0.24 0.016
228 367.3 EOH 139.3 0.23 0.016
incl. 268 300 32 0.30 0.019

DDH 06-120 was drilled between the conceptual Horsetrail pit and the Northwest pit
to test for continuity and is reported below:
Hole # From (m) To (m) Length (m) Ni % Co %
06-120 9.5 80 70.5 0.24 0.014
88 148 60 0.31 0.013
156 175.2 EOH 19.2 0.26 0.012

DDH’s 06-113 to 06- 116 were drilled as infill holes within the conceptual
Horsetrail pit:
Hole # From (m) To (m) Length (m) Ni % Co %
06-113 6.1 34 27.9 0.24 0.014
98 222 124 0.21 0.012

06-114 36 128 92 0.26 0.014
168 193.5 EOH 25.5 0.25 0.013

06-115 40 68 28 0.27 0.012
80 132 52 0.31 0.014
172 192 20 0.27 0.014

06-116 20 44 24 0.27 0.012

DDH’s 06-109 to 06-112 and holes 06-117 and 06-118 were drilled along the north and
northeast edges of the conceptual Horsetrail pit. Grades thin out in this direction
and these holes may indicate the limit of the Horsetrail deposit in this direction.
Hole # From (m) To (m) Length (m) Ni % Co %
06-109 68 112 44 0.27 0.016
140 264 124 0.21 0.014

06-110 24 56 32 0.23 0.014
116 128 12 0.23 0.013
140 156 16 0.23 0.014

06-111 166 178 12 0.21 0.012
266 290 24 0.24 0.014

06-112 No significant intervals

06-117 72 112 40 0.25 0.015
124 162 38 0.23 0.012

06-118 196 217.9 EOH 21.9 0.26 0.013

DDH 06-119 was drilled along the southern edge of the conceptual Horsetrail pit.
06-119 No significant intervals

True widths are estimated to be approximately 80 percent of reported core intervals.
Samples for analysis were 4 metres in length of split NQ- size core. Reference pulps
with known nickel and copper values were inserted every 25 core samples and rock
blanks inserted every 30 samples to monitor laboratory performance as part of the
QC/QA program.
Total nickel, copper, cobalt and sulphur values were determined by ICP emission
spectrometry following four acid digestion of a representative pulp sample. All
analytical work was conducted by Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd., an ISO 9001
registered facility, located in Vancouver. ALS Chemex, an ISO 9001 registered
facility, also located in Vancouver, is carrying out check analyses on ten percent
of the samples.
This news release has been reviewed and approved by Neil Froc , P.Eng., a qualified
person consistent with NI 43-101.
“Mark Jarvis”
MARK JARVIS , President
HARD CREEK NICKEL CORPORATION
The TSX Venture Exchange does not accept responsibility for the accuracy or adequacy
of this news release.


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