North Arrow Minerals Inc. (TSXV: NAR) has provided an update on the 2023 exploration field programme at its wholly-owned DeStaffany lithium property.
DeStaffany is located on the shore of Great Slave Lake, approximately 115km east of Yellowknife, NWT. The property hosts the Moose 1 and Moose 2 lithium-tantalum-niobium pegmatites, which form part of the Yellowknife pegmatite province and were briefly mined in the 1940’s for tantalum and niobium.
The extent of spodumene mineralization has been expanded at the Moose 1 and Moose 2 pegmatites and prospecting has identified spodumene mineralization within the newly confirmed Moose 3 and Moose 4 pegmatites, doubling the number of spodumene pegmatites known on the property.
Ken Armstrong, president, and CEO of North Arrow commented, “We’ve had a strong start to what is really the first full evaluation of the lithium potential of the DeStaffany property. The Moose 1 pegmatite has now been well sampled at surface with completion of 14 new channel samples.”
Additionally, 68 rock sawn channel samples have been collected from all four pegmatites, including 54 samples collected from 14 channels over a 300m strike extent of Moose 1.
Mineralogical characterization samples have been collected from Moose 1 and Moose 2, including a representative sample intended to evaluate the suitability of ore sorting technology to produce a spodumene concentrate from Moose 2.
“The length of individual rock sawn channels is limited by available bedrock exposure, so the upcoming drilling will be important for defining the true widths and size potential of the Moose pegmatites. The confirmation of significant spodumene mineralization at the Moose 3 pegmatite, located approximately 1km to the northwest of Moose 1, suggests it is a strong candidate for inclusion in the August drill programme.” Said Mr. Armstrong.
North Arrow have reported that a type A land use permit was granted on 7 July 2023, allowing the project to proceed with an initial first pass drill programme, scheduled to commence in August 2023.
A previously disclosed grant awarded to the DeStaffany project under the mining incentive programme (MIP) of the government of the NWT has been increased to C$192,000.
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