The Company has received assay results from 842 channel samples collected from trenches during the initial phase of the 2023 exploration program. The trenching program, currently focused on the Nels Luck area East zone, is expected to assist in identifying priority targets for the upcoming 5,000-meter exploration drilling program scheduled to start in the coming weeks.
Highlights: 2349m of trenches uncovered a 1.2 km long and up to 60m wide pegmatite(s) at Nels Luck
842 samples taken from the trenches were sent for analysis in June and July
Highly anomalous results across the pegmatite including 36 m of 0.37% (3692ppm) Li2O
The trenching program consisted of 25 trenches for a total of 2349m. A total of 598m of pegmatite was intersected in the trenches.
The Nels Luck claims hosts a group of lepidolite, spodumene, and tantalite, bearing lithium-cesium-tantalum pegmatites with an approximate surface expression of 1200 meters by up to 100m. The Nels Luck group of claims is situated approximately 15 km northeast in the same stratigraphic package, on the southern limb of a regional syncline, that hosts the
Discussion
Lithium minerals decompose readily in the weathering tropical environment. Lithium-ions are too small to effectively fill the octahedral site (in which lithium is bonded to six oxygen atoms) in spodumene, amblygonite-montebrasite and lithiophilite-triphylite, at near-surface conditions (London D, 2017)[1] . Therefore, lithium is frequently leached away when the pegmatite is subject to weathering. It is likely that the moderately anomalous Li2O trenching results were due to the pegmatites sampled in the trenches at Nels Luck being moderate to strongly weathered, especially compared to the relatively fresh grab samples taken in May.
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The Company has sent all of the pulp of the grab and trench samples for analysis of Niobium (Nb), Tantalum (Ta), and Caesium (Cs) to SGS Johannesburg. Results are pending.
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