Renforth Resources Inc (CSE:RFR, OTCQB:RFHRF) has told investors that this summer's prospecting at its 330 square kilometre (sq km) Surimeau district battery metals project in Quebec has continued to underline the property's potential.
Renforth's crew, as well as prospecting various targets, dug eight different trenches between the Lalonde and Victoria polymetallic mineralized systems.
In each trench, some amount of mineralization was exposed, with the best mineralization - confirmed visually and with X-ray fluorescence (XRF) - at Lalonde. Work so far at Surimeau has resulted in defining the Victoria mineralized structure at around 20 kilometre (km) in length and the Lalonde now measuring around 9km in length.
"We are very happy with the visual results from our second prospecting program at Surimeau this year. This time it seems Lalonde yielded the best-looking samples and each trench intersected mineralization," said Nicole Brewster, CEO of Renforth, in a statement.
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"The extension of Lalonde's strike to 9km adds to the overall battery metals picture at Surimeau. At the same time, we have not yet fully prospected the entire Lalonde magnetic trend," she added.
"Our Surimeau property just continues to get more and more interesting. While our work is at an early stage, it is clear we are dealing with two mineralized systems offering significant strike length of mineralization on surface, justifying our continued efforts to determine how big Surimeau actually is."
Among the work's highlights, it was discovered that at Victoria, there is a second horizon of mineralization sitting to the north of the one uncovered during the 2021 stripping, and the northern crosscut ended around 40 metres (m) short of where it would have intersected the northern mineralization.
The company said due to the success of this program, it is now planning additional stripping to cross-cut strike at Victoria in addition to a series of larger cross-cutting stripped trenches along strike at Lalonde.
At Victoria, the cross-cutting trenches, which will start at the south and north side of the currently stripped area, will extend well into the sediments, hopefully capturing any additional mineralized horizons, the firm added.
At Surimeau, Victoria West has been drilled over a strike length of 2.2km, within a 5km mineralized structure, proving nickel, copper, zinc and cobalt mineralization, in the western end of a 20km magnetic anomaly.
The Huston target, during initial reconnaissance, resulted in a grab sample grading 1.9% nickel, 1.38% copper, 1,170 parts per million (ppm) cobalt and 4 grams per ton (g/t) silver.
Additionally, the Lalonde, Surimeau and Colonie targets are all polymetallic mineralized occurrences.
As well as the Surimeau asset, Renforth wholly owns the Parbec gold deposit, a surface gold deposit contiguous to the Canadian Malartic mine in Malartic, Quebec.
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