Patriot Battery Metals Inc. (TSXV: PMET) (ASX: PMT) has a discovered an additional high-grade Zone in its 2023 winter drill programme at its wholly-owned Corvette Lithium Property in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region of Quebec.
The winter phase of the 2023 drill campaign was focused on the CV5 Pegmatite, located approximately 13.5km south of the regional and all-weather Trans-Taiga Road and powerline infrastructure.
“The drill bit continues to deliver for us as confirmed by the strong grades and wide widths of mineralized pegmatite reported herein,” President and CEO, Blair Way, said.
“With our last hole providing the longest pegmatite intersection of the winter drill programme (139m), we are certainly primed for continued success as we approach the beginning of our summer-fall drill program, scheduled to commence later this month.
“With core sample assays for numerous drill holes remaining to be received, the company’s geological team is steadfast focused on final validation of the CV5 Pegmatite’s geological model, inclusive of all drill holes completed to date, ahead of an initial mineral resource estimate.”
Drill holes targeting the east-central area of the CV5 Pegmatite were completed during the winter programme to take advantage of more practical and cost-effective ground access. These drill holes were highly successful with mineralized pegmatite intervals of 122.6m at 1.89% Li2O, including 8.1m at 5.01% Li2O (CV23-138), 130.3m at 1.56% Li2O, including 52.7m at 2.45% Li2O (CV23-132), 101.3m at 1.44% Li2O, including 28.1m at 3.00% Li2O (CV23-134), and 10.1m at 2.42% Li2O and 4.0m at 4.13% Li2O (CV23-130).
These four drill holes define a new high-grade zone, which is interpreted to represent a continuous 200+ m extension westward of the high-grade Nova Zone (see news release dated March 29, 2023).
Drill holes CV23-181 (108 m of continuous pegmatite) and CV23-148 (95 m of continuous pegmatite) tested the connection of the zones (i.e., the area between), with assays pending for both.
However, based on logged modal spodumene content, the high-grade Nova Zone is now interpreted to extend continuously from at least drill hole CV23-132 to CV23-108, a distance of approximately 1,100m.
Assay results for two drill holes completed over the recently discovered westward extension of the CV5 Pegmatite confirm strong lithium grades over moderate to wide intervals in this area – 38.4m at 1.19% Li2O, 7.8m at 3.01% Li2O, and 8.8m at 1.29% Li2O (CV23-176), and 33.4m at 0.87% Li2O and 12.8m at 1.25% Li2O (CV23-161).
The CV5 Pegmatite remains open along strike westwardly in this area with the westernmost drill hole completed to date (CV23-184) returning a continuous 93m interval of dominantly spodumene-bearing pegmatite.
Additionally, the final hole of the winter programme (CV23-190), also completed in this area, returned a continuous 139m interval of dominantly spodumene- bearing pegmatite – the widest pegmatite intercept of the 2023 winter program at the CV5 Pegmatite. Core sample analysis for both CV23-184 and 190 have not yet been reported. T
These drill holes were also completed in opposite directions across the CV5 Pegmatite body, further attesting to the sizable blow-out (i.e., sizable width) of the pegmatite in this area.
The 2023 winter drill programme recently concluded with a total of 89 drill holes and 32,367m completed – drill holes CV23-105 through 190. Through the 2023 winter programme, the CV5 Pegmatite has now been traced continuously by drilling (at approximately 50m to 150m spacing) as a principally continuous spodumene-mineralized body over a lateral distance of at least 3.7km (CV23-184 to CV23-125) and remains open along strike at both ends and to depth along most of its length.
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