Green Battery Minerals Inc reported successful Beep Mat Survey results, as well as confirmation regarding the presence of outcropping graphite at Zone 3 and Zone 4 at its Berkwood Graphite project, in northern Quebec.
The Vancouver-based company has mobilized crews for an outcrops sampling program, as well as completion of geophysical tests, including a Beep Mat survey of Zone 3 and 4 to expand the known graphite showings at its Berkwood project.
Green Battery Minerals said it has used Beep Mat Survey tests and successfully discovered “new graphitic outcrops as well as aided in determining direction and size of the graphitic outcrops.”
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Beep Mat surveys are a geophysical method used to detect the magnetic susceptibility and relative electromagnetic (EM) conductivity along with GPS location and is effective in locating graphite formation accompanied with sulphides, said the company.
In addition to geophysical surveys, three surface samples of material were taken each from outcropping bedrock and about 3-to-4 meters apart from each other. “It appears that this conductive unit locally contains considerable graphite,” said the company. Limited prospecting laterally did not pick up the graphitic extension, but it could be stripped relatively easily as it is high ground and adjacent to the road, it added.
Green Battery Minerals said more work is required and easterly zones along strike topography rises should be prospected, as the lateral extension of this interesting outcrop was only partially covered by the Beep Mat.
The survey on Zone 3 suggests that the overburden coverage and depth in this area is slightly thicker, potentially masking Beep Mat Response. Review of historic GPS tracks and Beep Mat data helped to target areas of shallower overburden.
“Two bedrock samples subsequently obtained appear to contain low grade graphitic material,” said the company. The firm said it is “very pleased” that work has been done to confirm and expand the graphitic outcrops on Zone 3 and Zone 4.
In a statement, Green Battery Minerals CEO Tom Yingling, said: “We are very pleased to report the successful Beep Mat Survey results as well as confirm the presence of outcropping graphite at Zone 3 and Zone 4. All new information helps us work towards an overall plan and goal to enhance and expand our already known high grade natural clean graphite resource.”
“The confirmation of graphite in these two zones also gives the company two new potential drill targets. Permitting and sourcing a drill is continuing for the planned expanded drill program on zones 1 and 6. Drill rigs are in huge demand in Canada and especially in Quebec.”
Yingling said the company is planning an early Fall drill program, which should help add to its already proven resource, and move Green Battery Minerals towards increasing the value of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) that it is working on.
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