Germanium Mining Corp. announced that it has commenced remote sensing work on its Lac Du Km 35 Property, located in the Chibougamau area, Quebec. Description of the Lac du Km 35 Property Regional Setting.
The Property comprises the prominent Faribault Shear Zone ("FSZ"), oriented east-southeast, and located towards the eastern part of the Property. The FSZ dips to the south-southwest and ends at the Grenville Front which extends southwest-northeast for several hundreds of kilometres. The FSZ is a key structural feature that may connect with other permeable zones at depth, acting as a preferential conduit for hydrothermal fluids.
Discovered by government geologists in 1998 and never followed up, the Laganiere germanium showing consists of a peridotite outcrop within the Laganiere gneissic Complex that comprises amphibolites and hornblende and biotite gneisses. The Laganiere showing returned a value of 0.02% (186 ppm) germanium. These results are considered historical in nature.
A qualified person has not completed sufficient work to verify these historical results, and the Company is not treating these historical results as current mineral resources or mineral reserves. The Laganiere germanium showed lies beside the main lumber road and immediately adjacent to the south to a cluster of electromagnetic anomalies of roughly 400 m x 400 m in size that were never tested. The Laganiere gmanium showing is also 450 m northeast of the FSZ, 800 m from the southern margin of the Duberger felsic pluton and approximately 2 km to the west of the Grenville Front.
The area between the FSZ and the Laganiere Germanium showing, including the never tested cluster of electromagnetic anomalies, will be the main focus of GMC. Satellite Imagery Study. The remote sensing work is expected to be completed by end of February 2026 and will consist of outlining potential faults, shear zones and related secondary structural features that may be associated with germanium mineralization.
The Company intends to complete a satellite imagery study using ESA (European Space Agency) PNEO satellites constellation with panchromatic data of 30 cm in resolution, acquired in September 2023. algorithms will be applied on these images in order to pinpoint relevant structural bodies, including intrusions, variably dipping dykes and lenticular-shaped elements. The information will be transferred to a GIS system and a series of maps at scale 1:5,000 will be generated.
Preccise satellite image interpreted structural features will be correlated with existing data for generating targeted areas that will be followed up on the field in the upcoming sampling program in the summer of 2026. Germanium is a hard, greyish and brittle metalloid. Germanium has many growing applications in electronics and solar, in fiber optics, and Infrared optics for civil and military uses.
Germanium is in the list of critical metals in Canada, the United States and the European Union. Since December 3, 2024, China, the largest producer of refined germanium, has banned germanium exports to the United States. Germanium is not an openly traded commodity and recent spot prices have germanium over USD 5,000 per kilogram.
The Company cautions that the geological information provided in this news release is of historical nature and mineralization may not be representative of mineralization on the Lac du Km 35 property.
