Renforth Resources Inc (CSE:RFR, OTCQB:RFHRF) said that initial results validate the extent of surface mineralization at Quebec's newest battery metals district, the company’s 330-square kilometer Surimeau District property.
The Pickering, Ontario-based company shared promising results from prospecting targeting the polymetallic intrusive mineralization at Surimeau obtained from the Victoria and Lalonde trends during the May-to-July season this year, prior to trenching.
Renforth said the results include 0.71% nickel (Ni) in a grab sample from a previously unexplored area of central Victoria, east of the Rapide 7 road and two assay results of 0.32% Ni in two separate grab samples obtained within the current stripping area at Lalonde west.
In the case of Lalonde west, follow-up work consisting of stripping a wide band perpendicular (north/south) to the mineralized Lalonde structure (which runs east/west), followed by channel sampling, is ongoing, said the company. In the case of central Victoria, additional prospecting will be undertaken this fall, it added.
“These initial results validate the extent of surface mineralization on our Surimeau District property. Our current interpretation is two separate polymetallic mineralized systems essentially running east/west, outcropping on surface, with lengths of around 20 kilometers (km) at Victoria and currently approximately 9km at Lalonde, the latter is still open on strike and unexplored,” Renforth CEO Nicole Brewster said in a statement.
“West of the Rapide 7 road the two horizons are separated north/south by approximately 3.7km. Copper and zinc mineralization is hosted in a thick sequence of greywacke with graphitic mudstone interlayers while nickel and cobalt mineralization is hosted within ultramafic flows,” she added.
Following the prospecting work, a channel cutting program was carried out and the results are pending. Currently, the property has been chipped and stripped with channel cutting ongoing at Lalonde. Renforth's geologists will map and sample the newly stripped areas after a field break allowing the local community uninterrupted access for hunting.
Brewster noted that Renforth will learn more about the property with ongoing exploration to determine the extent and surface grade of the mineralization.
“We intend to drill at Victoria west this winter, building on the drilled mineralized package as deep as 180 meters (m) with an approximately 125m package width over the approximately 2.2km we have drilled,” she added. “We will also likely drill Lalonde west of the road for the first time. Our grab samples reflect the consistent presence of polymetallic mineralization with a wide range of grades, clearly there is more work required, which we will do."
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