Drill Program Update: QMC and SGS Canada Commence MMI Survey
September 17 2018 - 8:30AM
– via NetworkWire – QMC Quantum Minerals Corp.,
(TSX.V: QMC) (FSE: 3LQ) (OTC PINK: QMCQF)
(“
QMC” or "the Company") is pleased to provide an
update on its company’s 100% owned Irgon Lithium Mine Project
located within the prolific Cat Lake-Winnipeg River rare-element
pegmatite field of S.E. Manitoba, which also hosts Cabot
Corporation’s nearby Tantalum Mining Corporation of Canada
(“TANCO”) rare-element pegmatite.
As part of the ongoing program to have SGS
Canada Inc. (“SGS”) confirm and potentially increase the historical
resource on the Irgon Dike (1.2 M tons at 1.51% Li2O) to current
NI43-101 standards, the SGS geologist, accompanied by QMC
geologists, undertook an initial required site visit to evaluate
the Irgon Dike, and all other known mineralized dikes on the
property. SGS has completed their evaluation of all existing
data available for the property and is assisting the Company with
finalizing the drilling program.
As part of the drilling program, QMC and SGS
have completed the initial Mobile Metal Ion (“MMI”) geochemical
orientation survey across the Irgon Dike. This initial survey will
be used to identify the optimum sampling depth to achieve the best
geochemical response from the underlying lithium mineralization.
Samples from this orientation survey have been submitted to SGS and
will be analyzed for 53 elements. QMC will utilize the MMI
responses to best target the signature of the underlying Irgon
mineralization and other target areas on the property.
MMI geochemistry is a proven advanced
geochemical exploration technique especially well-suited to detect
buried mineral deposits. The main benefits of an MMI survey are the
generation of very few false anomalies and any anomalies that are
identified are sharp and focused directly over the mineral deposit.
SGS is the sole provider of MMI technology. Subsequent to the
completion of this initial orientation survey, SGS will continue to
provide technical support and consulting services to undertake
additional MMI surveys over other proposed target areas within the
Irgon Lithium Mine Property.
HISTORICAL RESOURCEBetween
1953-1954, the Lithium Corporation of Canada Limited drilled 25
holes into the Irgon Dike and subsequently reported a
historical resource estimate of 1.2 million tons
grading 1.51% Li20 over a strike length of 365 meters and to a
depth of 213 meters (Northern Miner, Vol. 41, no.19, Aug. 4, 1955,
p.3). This historical resource 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 resource 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 1950-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 meters. On the 61-metre level, lateral development was
extended off the shaft for a total of 366 meters of drifting, from
which seven crosscuts transected the dike. The work was suspended
in 1957 awaiting a more favourable market for lithium oxides, and,
at this time, the mine buildings were removed.
The mineral reserve 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 the Company
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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