Burley Minerals have taken its next step at the Chubb Lithium Project and begun initial metallurgical test work on core samples from both historic drilling and this year’s 5200 metre campaign into its fully owned Québec territory.
Early drilling returned high-grade intercepts up to 1.93 per cent lithium oxide and confirmed spodumene-bearing pegmatite with a strike length of at least 560 metres and extending below 200.
It spurred an expanded diamond-core drill program which continues to spin for up to another 4000 metres targeting mineralised extensions at Chubb, and the company is moving to metallurgy as it awaits a full deck of results.
Burley Managing Director and Chief Executive Stewart McCallion said having core from both programs provided the luxury of abundant samples for test work.
It is great that we can get this work underway at such an early stage of exploration. The results of this metallurgical test work will give us a preliminary indication of spodumene recovery and ore upgradability, as we continue to expand and define the mineralised zones at the Chubb Lithium Project,” Mr McCallion said.
“I am very pleased with the work completed so far this year and I look forward to progressing this highly prospective project.”
Forward plan
Drilling has only previously tested two of the 35 Mineral Claims acquired by Chubb, sitting in the same Manneville Deformation Corridor which hosts Canada’s only operating lithium mine.
Burley stands well-funded and intend to continue systematically exploring its claim areas to identify additional spodumene mineralisation.
Analysis results are awaited from an ambient noise tomography survey conducted over Chubb, and Burley have also finished up more field mapping and geochemical assessment of the pegmatite outcrops.
The combination of results will be used to target extensions of known pegmatite dykes and explore for new parallel occurrences to the east of the mineralised zone.
