Green Battery Minerals inc. (TSXV:GEM) has mobilised a drill contractor to commence additional drilling on Zone 6 of it’s 100% owned Berkwood Graphite Project in Quebec.
The programme is intended to further define the extent and grade of the Zone 6 graphite discovery and to drill into the outcrops that were exposed in our last mapping programme done in July of this year.
The 20-hole 2,000 m 2022 drill programme has been designed based on the results of surface exposures of graphite identified during the previous July mapping programme.
Semi continuous horizons of graphite were identified along the trend and appear to define a recumbent fold structure. Drilling is to initially focus on outcropping areas of graphite.
At each of the principal outcrop locations a number of holes will be advanced and will attempt to demonstrate down dip and along-strike continuity. Drilling will commence along 400m of continuous graphite exposure along the south-dipping southern limb of the antiform between Areas 1 – 3 outcrops.
Where access is possible, targeted holes will be advanced in the nose of the antiform, where surface mapping has identified fault offset surface continuity into the Area 4 outcrops. Several targeted holes have also been specifically designed to establish the near surface true thickness of the outcropping graphite.
Drilling is expected to commence before the end of August 2022 and is expected to last for four to six weeks with field operations based out of Manic 5, Quebec. The proposed budget has been approved in the amount of C$1,000,000.
The company has previously completed a drill programme on Zone 6 for a total of 970 meters in 12 drill holes. Six of the twelve drill locations were drilled into outcrops and intersected significant graphite enrichment.
“It’s not every day you get to drill into high grade anything and here we are about to drill directly into four separate graphite outcrops along a defined 400m strike length with strong indications of more. Needless to say, we are excited to test these outcrops at depth under much fairer conditions than those we encountered last winter,” President and CEO, Tom Yingling, said.
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