Solstice Gold Corp. (TSX-V:SGC) said it has added 23 km2 adjacent to its Stewart Lake Lithium Project (SLP) in the English River Subprovince (ERS), increasing its land package to 197 km2 to cover areas with potential pegmatites interpreted from satellite imagery.
“Over the last six months, Solstice undertook an extensive review of all fertile rare element districts in Ontario. Our technical team’s early recognition of the eastern ERS as an underexplored region with high discovery potential for rare elements allowed us to establish a commanding land package in high metamorphic grade metasediments flanked by two peraluminous granites,” Pablo McDonald, Solstice CEO, said in a statement.
“The SLP property contains at least 146 documented pegmatites in an area that has never been sampled for Lithium or rare metals. We are very optimistic that we are just scratching the surface of this region’s high discovery potential, which is what has been driving the design of our summer exploration plans. We are excited to get boots on the ground and systematically explore this strategically located land package.”
The exploration company said it is developing its summer prospecting program to systematically prospect and sample SLP, involving road, helicopter, and boat-based traverses, and will endeavor to cover the prospective outcrops as defined by meticulous analysis of satellite and air photography.
The initial prospecting will focus on the northern section of the property. Helicopter-supported prospecting will focus on areas farther from the road in the southern section, with particular focus paid to channel sampling outcrops adjacent to historical drill holes to confirm the presence and composition of previously mapped fertile pegmatites.
The company added that prospecting will employ Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy and scintillometers, which give instantaneous readings that quantify the lithium content and radioactivity of outcrops.
Solstice is an exploration company with quality, district-scale gold projects in established mining regions of Canada.
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