Green Technology Metals Limited (ASX: GT1) has kicked-off a major drilling and exploration campaign across multiple lithium assets at its 100% owned projects in Ontario, Canada.
“The exploration season has kicked off with immediate success at Root Bay with exploration teams venturing out across all our 56kHa of prime lithium real estate to bolster our 22.5Mt of resource created during the 2022 exploration season,” Chief Executive Officer, Luke Cox, said.
A large-scale field exploration programme is underway over the company’s 56,000 hectare land holding. All projects have been evaluated and prioritized for exploration based off prospective geological setting and observed pegmatite widths and lithium grades.
Due to the fires in the neighbouring Quebec Province, additional specialized geological resources have become available allowing GT1 to fast-track exploration and expand the field exploration program to cover a larger amount of ground.
GT1 is undertaking a three-phase field exploration and diamond drilling programme from June 2023 to December 2023.
Phase 1: Field Exploration: Tape Lake target- Junior Lake, Superb Lake, Root, Allison. Infill Drilling Root Bay
Phase 2: Field Exploration: Junior Lake, Pennock, North Seymour, Falcon
Phase 3: Infill drilling at Seymour exploration drilling priority targets generated from above Phase 1 and 2 field exploration
Western Hub
Prospecting has begun on the areas immediate east and west of Root Bay where the thin layer of overburden allows pegmatites to be identified. The company has had immediate success with a new spodumene discovery 1.4km along strike and west of the Root Bay Deposit, extending the mineralized trend to over 2.7km. The mineralized outcrop matches the pegmatites defined at the Root Bay deposit and is likely part of a large stacked system of mineralized pegmatites.
An initial 22,000m Diamond drilling programme is underway at Root Bay with 19 holes for 3,741m completed. Infill drilling is focused on adding tonnes to the existing 8.1 Mt Root Bay resource followed by extensional drilling over 3km of untested, highly prospective extension of the deposit.
Field crews will commence prospecting, soil sampling and geochemical analysis in the coming weeks over the underexplored northern tenement area of Root Bay for additional drill targets that will be prioritized when exploration drilling resumes in Q4 23.
Allison
In addition to the exploration at Root Bay, field crews will mobilize to the Allison project that lies on the edge of a fertile granite believed to be the source of LCT pegmatite occurrences in the area. The project is easily accessible through a new network of logging roads and features ample LCT-type pegmatite occurrences with historic Lithium grades. Exploration at the area will be across 10 target areas include mapping, sampling and prospecting followed by stripping, channel sampling and drilling at newly generated targets later in the year.
Phase 2 exploration Trist and Pennock will include prospecting, mapping and sampling and be expanded to include GT1’s highly prospective projects Pennock and Trist all located within the Western Hub that have seen little to no exploration.
Trist
The Trist property is located 10km east of the Root project along the same Lake St Joseph fault, sharing similar geological, geophysical and structural signatures and features. The project has limited previous exploration however is host to an abundant amount of pegmatite outcrops to explore and sample.
Pennock
An extensive reconnaissance programme is planned over the entire Pennock project. Pennock is located adjacent to Frontier Lithium’s Pennock Pegmatite, that has a spodumene-bearing outcrop containing a 16m channel sampling grading 1.96% LI2O. This outcrop is visible in satellite imagery and shows a general extensional trend towards GT1’s Pennock property.
Eastern Hub
The Eastern Hub is host to the Seymour Project, Junior Lake, Falcon and Superb project areas. Geological crews have mobilized to the Tape Lake occurrence at the Junior Lake project to commence mapping and sampling and an additional field team is currently mobilizing to the Superb to commence initial prospecting, mapping and sampling for the first phase of the field exploration program over the Eastern Hub.
Phase 2 exploration will be expanded to include North Seymour, Falcon, and the Despard and Swole Lake target areas at Junior Lake.
GT1 plan to recommence diamond drilling at Seymour during in Q4 2023 with a 6000m diamond drill programme primarily focused on infill drilling to upgrade the resource at the North and South Aubry deposits and continue infrastructure drilling in support of the Preliminary Economic Assessment.
Following the initial drilling programme at Seymour, exploration drilling will recommence over new priority target areas generated during this field season.
The Tape Lake area remains highly prospective with two spodumene-bearing dykes located with no previous drill testing undertaken.
Superb
Additional field crews have also mobilized to the Superb project to commence initial prospecting along strike to mapped pegmatites. The 1933 hectare Superb project has very little historic exploration and remains highly prospective being host to four mapped LCT pegmatites indicative of fertile peraluminous granites.
Phase 2 exploration will be expanded to include the additional exploration targets, Despard and Swole Lake as well as initial exploration over Falcon and North Seymour.
Falcon Lake
The Falcon Lake project covers 816 hectares located adjacent to GT1’s Flagship Seymour Project and connects to the Junior Lake Project. The project area heavily underexplored and highly prospective for Lithium exploration. The project area is underlain by the east-west trending Caribou Lake-O’Sullivan Greenstone Belt which extends eastward into the Onamon-Tashota Greenstone Belt.
North Seymour
The North Seymour block lies on the same greenstone belt as the North and South Aubry deposits and exhibits many of the same structural and geophysical features which the company believe are the controls of the spodumene and pegmatite mineralization and emplacement.
Junior Lake
The Junior Lake project is comprised of 10,856 hectares and is host to three drill-ready LCT pegmatite prospects, identified from previous exploration. Phase 1 exploration will include mapping and sampling of the Tape Lake area that remains highly prospective with two spodumene-bearing dykes located with no previous drill testing undertaken and rock chip samples from one pegmatite dyke have returned 1.04%, 1.22% and 2.37% Li2O.
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