Burley Minerals Limited (ASX: BUR) has identified additional pegmatites prospective for lithium minerals in recently completed geological mapping, field pXRF mineral geochemical vectors and geophysical surveys at its 100% owned Chubb Lithium Project in Québec, Canada.
The mapping and field mineral vectors, completed by the company and specialist geologists familiar with LCT pegmatite systems, has determined that outcropping pegmatites at Chubb North show fertility indicators consistent with LCT pegmatites. Burley has identified six targets and has gained additional approvals to allow drilling of the Chubb North pegmatite targets.
Managing Director and CEO, Stewart McCallion, said the ANT geophysical survey preliminary results have also identified potential structural anomalies to the northeast of Chubb Central which may represent emplacement sites for LCT pegmatites; this data is undergoing further processing. These will be tested in future drilling following data confirmation.
Burley’s recently completed fieldwork at the Chubb Lithium Project in Québec, Canada has identified, through mapping and field mineral geochemistry, potentially fertile pegmatites, and with permitting now complete, we plan to drill here immediately,” Mr McCallion said.
“Drilling at Chubb Central has continued to infill and extend the mineralised zone down plunge. The Company has now completed approximately 7,000m of diamond drilling since April of this year combined with mapping, geochemistry and geophysics targeting.
“We are very encouraged about the new drill permitted targets which have opened a large, undrilled area at Chubb North. We are excited as the team successfully continues to progress this highly prospective project, strategically located in the Tier 1 lithium province of Québec, Canada. To date the Company has drilled only two of the 35 mineral claims at the Chubb Lithium Project, located 25 km from Val d’Or, Québec.”
The Chubb Lithium Project is located 25 km north of the mining community of Val d’Or in the heart of the world-class lithium province of Québec, Canada with a total area of 1,509 hectares. The Chubb Project is centred within the Manneville Deformation Corridor, which hosts Canada’s only operating lithium mine, the North America Lithium Operation (NAL). The NAL is owned by Sayona Mining Ltd and Piedmont Lithium Inc, with Mineral Resources of 58Mt at 1.23% Li2O1 reported, plus a number of other emerging projects including the Authier Lithium Project, with resources of 17Mt at 1.01 % Li2O reported. The recommissioned NAL plant is located 10km north-east of the Chubb Lithium Project, with first production having commenced in the March 2023 Quarter.
Prior to Burley acquiring the Chubb Lithium Project, 43 diamond drill holes for 5,460m of drilling had been completed across the project, however these have tested only two of the 35 Mineral Claims acquired.
