Post by
up2005 on Feb 02, 2022 12:29pm
Drill sample being shipped to ALS Canada. That’s good.
News Release - Vancouver, British Columbia – February 2, 2022: Defense Metals Corp. (“Defense Metals” or the “Company”) (TSX-V:DEFN / OTCQB:DFMTF / FSE:35D) is pleased to announce that 1,576 core samples representing 23 drill holes totalling approximately 3,900 metres of diamond drill core have been shipped and received by ALS Canada Ltd. (ALS) from its Wicheeda rare earth element (REE) Project.
Samples shipped to date represent more than 70% of the 2021 drilled meterage from the Company’s highly successful 29 hole, 5,349 metre diamond drill program designed to expand the Wicheeda REE deposit and further upgrade existing resource categories (see Defense Metals news release dated November 8, 2021). Core samples from the remining six diamond drill holes are expected to be shipped to ALS within one week’s time.
Of the 1,576 samples submitted to ALS, an ISO-IEC 17025:2017 and ISO 9001:2015 accredited geoanalytical laboratory, a total of 1,206 samples have been crushed and pulverized in preparation for multi-element ICP-MS fusion analysis. The Company expects to receive initial assay results from the first four diamond drill holes of the 2021 campaign, subject to QA/QC review, by mid-February with additional results news flow by end of February and thereafter.