공지 • Feb 14
Patriot Battery Metals Inc. Announces Assay Results from Its 2022 Drill and Surface Exploration Programs over the CV13 Pegmatite Cluster At Its Corvette Property
Patriot Battery Metals Inc. announced assay results from its 2022 drill and surface exploration programs over the CV13 Pegmatite cluster at its wholly owned Corvette Property, located in the James Bay Region of Quebec. The CV13 Pegmatite cluster, which is comprised of two contiguous lithium outcrop trends totalling 2.3 km in combined strike length, is located approximately 4.3 km along geological trend to the southwest of the CV5 Pegmatite. A total of fourteen (14) drill holes (NQ core size 47.6 mm inside diameter), totalling 2647 m, were completed at CV13 in 2022 the first drill program ever completed at the target. A total of six (6) holes were completed at the confluence of the two trends (CV22-077, 081, 082, 084, 085, and 088), two (2) holes along the western limb of the trend (CV22-103 and 104), and six (6) holes along the eastern limb of the trend (CV22-091, 092, 095, 096, 099, and 101). Of these fourteen (14) drill holes, ten (10) returned well-mineralized intervals of lithium pegmatite over three distinct areas of the collective trend. Drill core assays highlights include 22.6 m at 1.56% Li2O (29.3 m to 51.9 m), including 6.0 m at 3.19% Li2O (CV22-092 east limb), 22.4 m at 1.28% Li2O (3.1 m to 25.5 m) (CV22-077 confluence of trends), which collared in lithium pegmatite, and 17.3 m at 1.41% Li2O (20.6 m to 37.9 m), including 8.0 m at 2.09% Li2O (CV22-104 west limb). The potential of the CV13 Cluster is further supported by outcrop grab sampling as well as outcrop channel sampling completed in the fall of 2022, with results including 14.2 m at 1.17% Li2O (CH22-025/026), 13.1 m at 1.57% Li2O (CH22-017), and 10.5 m at 1.53% Li2O (CH22-018/19) (Figure 2). Channel CH22-025/026 is located approximately 600 m along trend to the northwest of drill holes CV22-103 and 104 (18.8 m at 1.01% Li2O, and 17.3 m at 1.41% Li2O, respectively), and remains to be drill tested. Based on the surface mapping and drilling completed to date, the CV13 Pegmatite cluster is characterized by two, shallow to moderately dipping, sub-parallel trending Li-Cs-Ta ("LCT") pegmatite bodies, which have been intersected in multiple drill holes along the overall 2.3 km trend. The primary LCT pegmatite body (the `upper' pegmatite) outcrops at surface and is interpreted to have been intersected near-surface in each of the fourteen (14) drill holes completed to date, testing four (4) distinct areas along the overall trend with results including 22.6 m at 1.56% Li2O (29.3 m to 51.9 m) (CV22-092 east limb) and 22.4 m at 1.28% Li2O (3.1 m to 25.5 m) (CV22-077 confluence of trends). This `upper' pegmatite ranges generally from 6 m to 36 m in width (core length) and appears to have significant strike extent based on intersections in drill hole and pegmatite outcrop exposed discontinuously along the trend. A second LCT pegmatite (the `lower' pegmatite) is also present at depth, being intersected in several drill holes which tested such depths, and is variably mineralized ranging from relatively low-grades over several metres to 8.1 m at 0.98% Li2O (167.4 m to 175.4 m) in drill hole CV22-085. Additional drilling is required to ascertain the relationship between the two bodies and if they may coalesce at some point into a larger body. Based on geological logging and chemistry, the primary lithium mineral at CV13 is spodumene (Figure 6). The spodumene crystals are more variable in size compared to those typically observed at the CV5 Pegmatite located approximately 4.3 km along geological trend to the northeast. However, crystal sizes of the spodumene at CV13 still commonly range from approximately centimetre to decimetre in scale. Drill holes CV22-096, 099, and 101, which targeted the northeast end of the eastern limb at CV13, intersected wide intervals of LCT pegmatite (14.9 m, 36.0 m, and 33.1 m, respectively), although, only returned anomalous lithium mineralization over these intervals. The highest lithium grades from each hole were 1.08%, 0.82%, and 0.58% Li2O in individual samples, respectively; however, each of the holes also returned significantly elevated levels of Cs (>1000 ppm), Rb (>1%), and Ta2O5 (>100 ppm, including a 5,784 ppm sample in drill hole CV22-096). Additionally, several lithium pegmatite outcrops in the immediate area returned an average 1.78% Li2O over seven (7) grab samples, confirming strong lithium mineralization proximal to these drill holes. As lithium pegmatites are commonly zoned, the drill core sample chemistry, coupled with the strong lithium mineralization in nearby outcrop, suggests a strong potential that higher grade lithium pegmatite may be proximal to that intersected in CV22-096, 099, and 101. Further, the Company is encouraged by the two (2) +30 m intersections of anomalous LCT pegmatite in two (2) of the three (3) drill holes (CV22-099 and 101), which are situated directly on geological trend and within 4.4 km of drill hole CV22-074 (16.9 m at 2.00% Li2O) at the CV5 Pegmatite. The CV13 lithium pegmatite cluster is characterized by two (2) contiguous trends, totalling approximately 2.3 km in combined strike length. To date, the cluster is characterized by a total of thirty-one (31) spodumene- bearing (field identified as spodumene) outcrops, including twenty (22) outcrops with >5% visually estimated modal spodumene content. The two large outcrops are approximately 70 m long by 12 m wide and 100 m long by 15 m wide, situated approximately 300 m apart. The CV13 Cluster is interpreted to be part of a much larger LCT pegmatite system at the Property, potentially extending from the most easterly identified CV4 Cluster, and continuing westerly through the CV5 and CV8-12 clusters, a distance of approximately 15 km. The scale of LCT pegmatite present along this trend suggests a deeply rooted and common `plumbing' system and source of the lithium mineralized bodies discovered to date. A significant portion of this trend remains to be drill tested and lithium mineralization confirmed, with the CV5 Pegmatite being the large continuous mineralized body delineated to date at 2.6 km. It is situated approximately 4.3 km along geological trend to the northeast of the CV13 Cluster, along a corridor that remains to be drill tested. The CV8-12 Cluster is situated approximately 1.9 km to the northwest of the CV13 Cluster, also along a corridor that remains to be drill tested.
