Hard Creek Nickel Corp.
Hard Creek Nickel Corp.: Hard Creek drills 120 metres of 0.33% nickel

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26. September 2007         Handelssymbol: TSX.V – HNC
(Vancouver, B.C.) – Mark Jarvis, President of Hard Creek Nickel Corporation
today released analytical results from 11 diamond drill holes, totaling
4,478 metres (14,692 feet) from the ongoing drill program at its 100% owned
Turnagain Project, located 70 km east of Dease Lake in British Columbia.

Mineralization was encountered in all the holes and comprised 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
sulfide and non-sulfide minerals. Comparison of analytical results over the
past four years indicates that sulfide nickel values range from 60 to 90
percent of total nickel values. Only nickel sulfide minerals are expected
to be recovered by froth flotation.

Drill hole locations can be viewed on a plan map at
www.hardcreeknickel.com/drill2007.htm.

Five of the reported core holes were drilled as infill holes, both between
the Horsetrail and Northwest Zones and within these zones, to confirm the
continuity of the mineralization within the inferred mineral resource.
These holes are summarized below:

The original spreadsheet can be viewed at www.hardcreeknickel.com

    Länge Total
Loch #   Von (m) Bis (m) (m) Ni % Co %
      
    Length Total
Hole #  From (m) To (m) (m) Ni % Co %
      
07-184  3.7 28 24.3 0.23 0.017
  60 92 32 0.29 0.015
  352 368 16 0.27 0.016
  380 537.9 EOH 157.9 0.25 0.016
      
07-186  20 36 16 0.22 0.013
  52 268 216 0.27 0.013
  300 324 24 0.25 0.014
      
07-190  8 20 12 0.24 0.014
  28 44 16 0.22 0.014
      
07-192  3.7 152 148.3 0.25 0.012
  164 264 100 0.25 0.014
      
07-195  6 94 88 0.27 0.014
  114 126 12 0.26 0.011
  174 198 24 0.21 0.013
  214 306 92 0.30 0.014
  406 422 16 0.22 0.010

Five of the reported core holes were drilled as step-out holes, located to
the east, southwest and south of the Horsetrail Deposit to test for
extensions to the known nickel mineralization. These holes are summarized
below:
    Length Total
Hole #  From (m) To (m) (m) Ni % Co %
      
* 05-103 (previously reported)  6.5 12 5.5 0.36 0.017
  16 26 10 0.31 0.016
  84 145.6 61.6 0.26 0.017
 incl. 112.9 123 10.1 0.47 0.013
      
07-103 (extension of 05-103)  233 281 48 0.24 0.012
      
07-185  64 84 20 0.28 0.014
  104 124 20 0.26 0.014
  192 208 16 0.23 0.013
  252 280 28 0.21 0.018
  424 436 12 0.21 0.012
      
07-187  33.3 52 18.7 0.23 0.014
  84 108 24 0.23 0.013
  192 212 20 0.21 0.013
  228 312 84 0.22 0.012
  404 428 24 0.35 0.045
      
07-189  32 56 24 0.24 0.014
  76 92 16 0.29 0.015
  120 132 12 0.31 0.016
  156 200 44 0.25 0.014
  240 256 16 0.21 0.010
  296 360 64 0.24 0.017
      
07-191  12.2 56 43.8 0.24 0.013
  72 100 28 0.23 0.013
  136 164 28 0.21 0.011
  224 244 20 0.24 0.018
  300 420.3 EOH 120.3 0.33 0.022

One of the reported core holes was drilled as a step-out hole to the
northeast of the Duffy Zone to test for extensions to known nickel
mineralization. This hole is summarized below:

    Length Total
Hole #  From (m) To (m) (m) Ni % Co %
      
07-194  92 132 40 0.25 0.014
  144 188 44 0.21 0.011
  324 340 16 0.25 0.012

Hard Creek Nickel has decided to update the February 12, 2007 resource
estimate prior to the completion of the 2007 drilling program by
incorporating all 2007 drill results collected to date. The new resource
estimate will be completed by AMEC Americas Limited of Vancouver, B.C. and
utilized for updating the 2006 Preliminary Assessment. The completion of
the updated Preliminary Assessment is scheduled for November 2007.
True widths are estimated to be approximately 80 percent of reported core
intervals.

Samples for analysis were generally 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.
IPL, an ISO 9001 registered facility, also located in Vancouver, is
carrying out check analyses on ten percent of the samples.

The Turnagain Nickel Project resource has been estimated in early 2007 (see
February 12, 2007 News Release for details) at a measured and indicated
resource of 428.5 million tonnes grading 0.23% total nickel (0.17% sulfide
nickel) and 0.011% cobalt and an additional inferred resource of 742.9
million tonnes grading 0.23% total nickel (0.17% sulfide nickel) and 0.011%
cobalt. Sulfide nickel grades are based on ammonium citrate-hydrogen
peroxide leach analyses. Ammonium citrate-hydrogen peroxide leach analyses
for nickel provide a good estimate of nickel grades present in sulfide form
and display good correlation with recoveries in metallurgical flotation
tests.Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have
demonstrated economic viability.
 
The current drill program is expected to continue, weather permitting, into
early November. A helicopter-supported drill has completed exploration
holes in the Mandible and Central areas with results pending. This drill is
still on site and is presently testing a number of targets in the Cliff
area, as detailed in the July 25, 2007 News Release. One Longyear 38 drill
has completed three holes in the DB platinum- palladium target area,
located two kilometers west of the Northwest Zone. An additional two or
three holes are planned in the DB area before this drill moves back to the
Northwest Zone to complete infill and step-out holes. Infill and step-out
drilling is continuing in the Horsetrail Deposit with a third drill. The
fourth drill has completed the first of four PQ-size holes in the
Horsetrail Deposit. Core from these holes will be used for a variety of
crushing, grinding and abrasion tests.

On behalf of the Board of Directors of Hard Creek Nickel Corporation

'MARK JARVIS'
MARK JARVIS, Präsident


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