QMC Confirms Significant Spodumene Mineralization in Historical Drill Core
14 Mai 2019 - 2:45PM
via NetworkWire: QMC Quantum Minerals Corp. (TSX.V: QMC)
(FSE: 3LQ) (OTC PINK: QMCQF) (“
QMC” or
"the Company") is pleased to announce during the recent Irgon drill
program, Cabot Corp., the owners of the TANCO Mine, provided QMC
the opportunity to evaluate and re-sample the stored drill core
derived from the 1978 TANCO drill program. This historical drilling
was undertaken on the Central and Mapetre pegmatite dikes which are
located within the Irgon Property. During this 1978 drill
program, the BQ core was split (using a core splitter) and
subsequently analyzed by TANCO to determine the tantalum and tin
concentrations. The lithium content had been ignored, as
TANCO at that time had no interest in this metal. During this
historical program, two short holes were drilled through the
Mapetre Dike and 20 short holes were collared on the Central
Dike. In the interim, the core has been stored in the TANCO
core facilities at the mine site.
Visual spodumene was reported in the 1978
logs. On re-sampling, QMC confirmed that pegmatite was
intersected in all drill holes for which the core was
available. The available drill core was not complete, as
several holes had sections that had been completely removed and
three of the holes were missing from the TANCO storage
facility.
QMC sawed the half core remaining in the core
box, leaving a quarter of the original core in the TANCO inventory.
The ¼ section of the core removed was analyzed by SGS Labs in
Lakefield, Ontario, for 56 elements, including lithium, tantalum,
niobium, rubidium and cesium using a sodium peroxide fusion
followed by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy
(ICP-AES / ICP-MS). Analytical results are pending.
HISTORICAL ESTIMATES
Between 1953-1954, the Lithium Corporation of
Canada Limited drilled 25 holes into the Irgon Dike and
subsequently reported a historical mineral estimate of 1.2 million
tons grading 1.51% Li20 over a strike length of 365 metres and to a
depth of 213 metres (Northern Miner, Vol. 41, no.19, Aug. 4, 1955,
p.3). This historical estimate is documented in a 1956 Assessment
Report by B. B. Bannatyne for the Lithium Corporation of Canada
Ltd. (Manitoba Assessment Report No. 94932). This historical
estimate is believed to be based on reasonable assumptions, and
neither the company nor the QP has any reason to contest the
document’s relevance and reliability. The detailed channel sampling
and a subsequent drill program will be required to update this
historical estimate to current NI 43-101 standards. Historic
metallurgical tests reported an 87% recovery from which a
concentrate averaging 5.9% Li2O was obtained.
During this historical 1950s era work program, a
complete mining plant was installed onsite, designed to process 500
tons of ore per day, and a three-compartment shaft was sunk to a
depth of 74 metres. On the 61-metre level, lateral development was
extended off the shaft for a total of 366 metres of drifting, from
which seven crosscuts transected the dike. The work was suspended
in 1957 awaiting a more favourable market for lithium oxides.
During this time, the mine buildings were removed.
The mineral estimate cited above is
presented as a historical estimate and uses historical terminology
which does not conform to current NI43-101 standards. A qualified
person has not done sufficient work to classify the historical
estimate as current mineral resources or mineral reserves. Although
the historical estimates are believed to be based on reasonable
assumptions, they were calculated prior to the implementation of
National Instrument 43-101. These historical estimates do not meet
current standards as defined under sections 1.2 and 1.3 of NI
43-101; consequently, the issuer is not treating the historical
estimate as current mineral resources or mineral
reserves.
Qualified Person and NI 43-101
Disclosure
The technical content of this news release has
been reviewed and approved by Bruce E. Goad, P. Geo., who is a
qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
About QMC
QMC is a British Columbia based company engaged
in the business of acquisition, exploration and development of
resource properties. Its objective is to locate and develop
economic precious, base, rare metal and resource properties of
merit. The Company’s properties include the Irgon Lithium Mine
project and two VMS properties, the Rocky Lake and Rocky-Namew,
known collectively as the Namew Lake District Project. Currently,
all of the company’s properties are located in Manitoba.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
of
QMC QUANTUM MINERALS CORP.
“Balraj Mann”
Balraj Mann
President and Chief Executive Officer
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