Sulphide bearing rocks may not look exciting.... But they sure are.
That one is one of the best examples of mineralization we have seen on our 330 sq km Surimeau property....of course in a million years we will get the assays back and know for sure what the 50-80% sulphides observed by our geologist means in the real world.
But this is exciting stuff!!!
Why is the boring rock exciting?
A few reasons...
1 - If we do not grow it we mine it. EVERY THING ON THIS PLANET. Are you reading this on your phone? Thank a miner...your laptop? Same thing...brought to you by a miner somewhere. Base metals are just that...the base. Battery metals is the new label, future facing minerals is what the fancy kids say...industrial minerals is what they get called....the label doesn't really matter. We are talking nickel, copper, zinc...and even cobalt (don't say it, I know, not a base metal, but we have it). We need them all, discoveries are few and far between.
(and I digress further. The bright bunnies who make forecasts are now forecasting doom and gloom for base metals, copper going into oversupply etc., I do not get too worried about that. It takes a while to bring a mine to market post discovery and all the numbers used in that process are very conservative....the bright bunnies are paid to prognosticate, not to know the future. So we carry on, time is on our side....well, that and the preceding ~10 years of no really meaningful investment in exploration by mining companies, they left it to us little guys to go and find stuff so we do....)
2 - Lalonde has demonstrated ~2.4km of mineralization, located only ~3.7km north of our Victoria West mineralization....twinsies! You can appreciate the fact that the potential of Surimeau being a mine one day has now been diversified between two very similar looking mineralization locations in very close proximity...and we have only just started to look at Lalonde, due to our focus to date being solely Victoria West.
3 - EM survey worked, as evidenced by our field crew finding mineralization when they were able to find outcrop at the locations indicated in our EM survey. Success! Our crew took lots of samples (>400) under their program mandate, which was split with lithium, however, they spend a good bit of time on our base metal stuff as well. One day we will get assays back....in the meantime we will use our visuals, like this one!
4 - this is just the beginning of the news coming from our prospecting....
Today a press release went out about findings at Lalonde, I encourage you to read it and form your own opinion, it is linked below. The preceding tangential ramble is my own opinion, nothing more. This is only the first news, stay tuned for more info on the prospecting program and anything else interesting we may have happening.
Any questions you have please ask, enjoy the last day of May! |