Polymetallic Mapping/Prospecting Results
Mapping and prospecting were focused on 4 distinct areas within the Surimeau property.
Fouillac - south of the
This program identified new battery metals mineralization on surface north of Lalonde and south of
Pegmatite/Lithium Mapping/Prospecting Results
The Decelles Batholith is a large granitic batholith exposed along the southern boundary of the Surimeau Property. Granitic batholiths may be the parental granites to pegmatite dykes. Elevated rare-elements such as Li, Cs and Ta are found in the most fractionated pegmatites.
Numerous granitic pegmatites are exposed along the southwestern and southern parts of the Surimeau property, especially along the Decelles granite-Pontiac metasedimentary contact. These pegmatite dykes often intrude into amphibolized Pontiac sediments. The summer 2023 prospecting program identified 4 grab samples with greater than 200 ppm Li including a high value of 990 ppm Li (sample 7357). All four of these samples were taken from Pontiac sediments in direct contact with granite/pegmatite. These samples appear to also have elevated Rb and Cs values. Elevated Li, Rb and Cs values in the mica-rich Pontiac metasediments at Surimeau may indicate proximity to lithium pegmatites and may represent distal metasomatism.
Granitic pegmatites in the southern part of the Property have coarse-grained green muscovite and contain anomalous Ta-Nb-Sn and Rb contents. Some of the granitic pegmatites also contain lithium mineralization indicator minerals: tourmaline, garnets, and white K-feldspar. These are characteristics of a fractionated granitic melt which could evolve to become a lithium pegmatite and will be used to vector to exploration targets.
Samples taken in this prospecting were grab samples, preferential by nature and not representative of the entirety of the property.
Samples taken during this mapping and prospecting program were selected, bagged, and tagged in the field, and personally delivered to the facilities of ALS Val' d'Or for test methods ME-ICP81 and ME-ICP41a. ALS facilities conform to the requirements of the ISO/IEC 17025 Standard.
Ongoing Victoria Drill Program Update
The two first holes of this drill program, SUR-23-47 and SUR-23-48, have now been completed for a total of 561m of the planned 4000m drilled to date. The third hole, SUR-23-49, is currently underway. Hole 48 is collared approximately 90m west of hole 47. The two holes completed so far are near the eastern end of the 'Main Victoria' area and were drilled to fill a gap in previous drilling conducted by Renforth in 2021. The two holes follow approximately the same lithological sequence - Pontiac Sediments, followed by massive ultramafics and then Pontiac sediments at the end of each hole. The deeper contact between the ultramafics and underlying sediments in these holes is a well-mineralized contact zone that contains zones of both albite-silica alteration and calc-silicate alteration. Mineralization is present in the form of fine to coarse sulfide stringers, nodules, clots, and disseminations of pyrite-pyrrhotite-sphalerite (Zn)-chalcopyrite (Cu) and pentlandite (Ni). Additionally, there are occasional narrow beds of well-mineralized graphitic mudstone within the sediments approaching the ultramafics. The mineralized zones described above are approximately 2m wide in SUR-23-47 and 19m wide in SUR-23-48, indicating that the main mineralized zone intersected in these holes is widening to the west.
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About Renforth
Renforth is a battery metals area play with the dominant brownfield land position south of the world class Cadillac-Larder
Renforth's position is unique in that the both the battery metals mineralization at Surimeau and our gold deposit at Parbec are road accessible, with hydro power crossing the properties, in an established and secure mining jurisdiction which regularly ranks as Top 10 (as determined by the
Renforth is engaged in the active exploration of the proven Surimeau battery metals mineralization, working towards a maiden resource statement, and the remodeling of our Parbec gold deposit to incorporate the 15,000m drilled subsequent to the 2019 effective date of the last MRE.
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