- QMC
Quantum Minerals is exploring for lithium at the Irgon Mine site in
southern Manitoba, which is located nearby the world-class TANCO Deposit,
another very productive, lithium-bearing granitic pegmatite
- The
company is entering into talks with testing firm SGS Canada to begin the
process of testing production of a saleable lithium product
- SGS’s
evaluation of QMC’s site recently discovered two unexpected geochemical
soil anomalies believed to indicate additional, adjacent, lithium-bearing
pegmatite dikes
Recent successes in exploring for spodumene-bearing
pegmatite dikes on its 100 percent-owned Irgon Property are leading QMC Quantum
Minerals Corp. (OTC: QMCQF) (TSX.V: QMC) (FSE: 3LQ) to begin preliminary
testing of lithium recoveries from a sample of the Irgon mineralization. A
January news release issued by the company (http://ibn.fm/ULHSE) notes that QMC is entering discussions
with specialized international inspections and testing firm SGS Canada to
evaluate lithium recoveries from a large spodumene-bearing pegmatite sample
obtained from known dikes on the Irgon property. This is expected to result in
confirmation that the production of a saleable lithium material is viable.
QMC will continue to evaluate the additional, potentially
mineralized locations as defined by significant geochemical anomalies generated
by the recent mobile metal ion (“MMI”) soil geochemical orientation survey that
was undertaken at QMC’s Irgon Lithium Mine site in southern Manitoba. The
company previously announced that MMI surveying techniques employed by SGS had
accurately identified the western extension of its existing Irgon Dike and had
gone on to identify two MMI geochemical soil anomalies located north and south
of the Irgon Dike. The company believes that these geochemical anomalies are
related to buried, parallel, lithium-bearing pegmatite occurrences at which no
surface rock outcropping nor spodumene mineralization is visible (http://ibn.fm/Yt95o). Each of
the anomalies, and several additional highly prospective areas, will be further
tested and expanded during the upcoming field season to accurately define the
exact location and size of the underlying source of the geochemical anomalies.
Once defined, all targets will then be tested.
After evaluating the MMI test results received as a result
of the MMI orientation geochemical soil survey established directly over the
Irgon Dike, SGS noted that “Li (lithium) values in soils correlate well with
both Cs (cesium) and Rb (rubidium) values,” and added that “the Cs values for
many of the samples are well above a ‘normal Cs value’ in various rock types in
North America. This would be expected as elevated Cs values have been
previously documented in the assay results of samples obtained during the
recent QMC channel sampling program of the Irgon Dike. Cs is also reported to
occur in biotite selvages that occur along the contact of the Irgon Dike.”
The two “separate and very pronounced MMI anomalies” that
were identified show stronger MMI signatures than the MMI signature received
from above the known, existing spodumene mineralization that occurs in the
Irgon Dike. QMC is planning to continue to use the MMI survey technique to
explore other areas within the Irgon Lithium Mine Property with the aim of
quickly adding potential resource expansion.
In the meantime, the lithium recovery study being negotiated
with SGS will test the recoveries on and the upgrading of a large
spodumene-bearing pegmatite sample taken from dikes on the Irgon Property. SGS
will prepare the large sample so that it will be responsive to the dense media
separation (“DMS”) process. Then, all gangue magnetic minerals (such as
magnetite) will be removed, and a lithium concentrate will be made using DMS.
The company will then upgrade the lithium concentrate through flotation
technology to recover a final, saleable product.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.QMCMinerals.com
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