Whitemud LAKe
overview
381 single cell mining claims totaling ~7,775 Hectares
location
- The Property is 41 km northeast of Ear Falls, ON.
- The Whitemud Lake property is located in northwestern Ontario where numerous lithium deposits have been delineated to host significant reserves of Li2O.
- The Property is accessible by a series of logging roads, or via helicopter.
previous work
The Whitemud Lake Property has been underexplored. Government mapping in the northwestern part of Whitemud Lake Area township identified several outcrops of pegmatite in the proximity of Whitemud Lake (Fenwick, 1966).
Government lake sediment surveys covered the Property in summer of 2000. The anomalous suite of elements returned from the survey on the Property suggest possible granitic pegmatite source rocks (OGS 2002). The sample sites in the project area returned some of the highest values obtained for Cs, Nb, Li, Sn, Be, Hg , and TI. There were also numerous other sites in the area which also returned elevated to anomalous values of Cs which are covered by the Property.
The term “elevated” indicated analytical results above the 90th percentile, “anomalous” for results above the 95thpercentile and “highly anomalous” for results above the 98th percentile.
adjacent properties
Green Technology Metals (ASX: GT1) announced coarse spodumene concentrate produced at Seymour with lithium recovery exceeding 72% and hosts 9.9Mt grading 1.044% Li2O and 137ppm Ta2O5
GTI also announced high-grade assay results from extensive drilling from their Root Lake-McCombe Lithium deposit.
RL-22-0041: 15.9m @ 1.12% Li2O from 98.1m
RL-22-0027: 12.3m @ 1.34% Li2O from 3.4m
RL-22-0035: 12.7m @ 1.28% Li2O from 66.5m
RL-22-0038: 8.4m @ 1.18% Li2O from 81.5m.
Neighbouring, Frontier Lithium’s (TSXV: FL) ‘Electric Avenue SPARK deposit announced 18.8 million tonnes averaging 1.52% Li2O in the Indicated category and 29.7 million tonnes averaging 1.34% Li2O in the Inferred category. Frontier Lithium’s PAK Lithium Project encompasses 26,774 hectares along 65 km of Ontario’s Electric Avenue with four spodumene-bearing pegmatites.
Avalon Advanced Materials’s (TSX: AVL) Separation Rapids property consists of 19 mineral claims and one mining lease covering a combined area of approximately 4,414 hectares with resources of 9.4Mt grading 1.35% Li2O.
The Georgia Lake pegmatite field with resources of 16+Mt grading 1.15% Li2O is owned by Imagine Lithium and Ultra Lithium.
geology
Caesium - Lake sediments
Lithium- Lake sediments
- These terrain boundaries are deep seated structures that divide accreted Archean terranes and can act as conduits for fertile peraluminous granites.
- The Property is underlain by tonalities to granodioritic rocks of the Bluffy Lake batholith in contact with metasedimentary rocks in the north-northeast which have been metamorphosed to the lower amphibolite/upper greenschist facies.
- The Property lies 17 km north of the English River-Winnipeg River Terrane boundary.
The English River sub-province consists mainly of turbiditic metasedimentary rocks, deposited during the final stages of magmatic and tectonic accretion within the Uchi Subprovince to the north at around ca. 2720 to 2710 Ma. The sedimentary rocks were intruded by a suite of calc‐alkalic plutons at 2698 Ma. Major regional deformation, amphibolite to granulite facies metamorphism, anatexis, and emplacement of an extensive peraluminous granitic suite culminated at 2691 Ma. Late episodes of metamorphism, metasomatism, and emplacement of pegmatites occurred locally at ca. 2680 and 2669 Ma (Corfu, F.1995).
References
Corfu, F., G. Stott, and F. Breaks (1995), U‐Pb geochronology and evolution of the English River Subprovince, an Archean low P‐high T metasedimentary belt in the Superior Province, Tectonics, 14(5), 1220-1233.
Fenwick, K.W 1966. Preliminary Geological Map, Ontario Geological Survey, Whitemud Lake Area, P412, Scale 1 inch to ¼ mile.
Ontario Geological Survey 2002. Perrault Falls area high density regional lake sediment
geochemical survey, northwestern Ontario: Operation Treasure Hunt; Ontario
Geological Survey, Open File Report 6092, 84p.
Maps
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