PURE RESOURCES LIMITED Pure Resources Limited announced preliminary results from its maiden geological fieldwork campaign that covered less than 5% of the 270km2 project area at the Company's Laforge Lithium Project, located in Quebec, Canada. Pure recently engaged Canadian based geological consultants Apex Geoscience Ltd. to conduct an aerial reconnaissance, mapping and sampling program over the Project in an opportunistic attempt to generate data prior to seasonal extreme weather conditions. Through a helicopter assisted field program, the team sampled as many areas of outcrop (areas where snow had been windswept) that were accessible.
The Company is excited with the identification of rock types prospective for lithium mineralisation, specifically, as well as orogenic gold style mineralisation. The Company believes the prospectivity of the Project has been significantly enhanced through this reconnaissance field program and plans to complete further, extensive field programs as soon as practibly possible. 240 outcropping rock samples were collected and submitted to ALS laboratories in Val- d'Or, Quebec, for preparation and ME-MS61 multi-element analysis with results expected to be returned to the Company in 8 weeks.
Preliminary field observations noted the presence of spodumene and pyrite mineralisation prospective for lithium and gold mineralisaiton, respectively. Three samples contained visual spodumene and fluoresced under ultraviolet light. Given this is the maiden exploration program over this greenfields area, further investigation is required to fully evaluate the mineralogy of the rock samples including the extent and tenor of possible lithium mineralisation.
The Project is a significant belt-scale tenement package covering a total of ~270km2 of the Laforge Greenstone Belt. The Project is situated 65km northeast of Patriot Battery Metals Inc.'s Corvette discovery in the Superior Province, Quebec, Canada. Apex Geoscience Ltd. were engaged by the Company to complete an aerial reconnaissance, mapping and sampling program over the Project in an opportunistic attempt to generate geological data prior to seasonal extreme weather conditions (snow, heavy ice and fog etc).
240 samples were collected, 41 of those being identified as pegmatite or pegmatitic. Aerial reconnaissance was completed over the Project area with 9 main sites accessible for on-ground mapping and sampling. Of these one contained what appeared to be a small tourmaline crystal, three samples observed contained visual spodumene and fluoresced under ultraviolet light with further investigation ongoing and assays pending to fully evaluate the extent and tenor of possible lithium mineralisation .
All samples were submitted to ALS laboratories in Val-d'Or, Quebec, for preparation and ME-MS61 analysis. Analysis is expected to take approximately 8 weeks with major backlogs in preparation times at ALS. Samples were collected from all located outcrops during the program with the focus on zones with migmatitic and mylonitic outcrop with mapped geology, in conjunction with metasediment packages.
Where these zones correspond to high topography, the field team encountered the outcrops with the most prospective lithologies.
