Figure 1. Regional location of the Smiley Lithium Property.
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Commentary
Northwestern Ontario Lithium
The Smiley Lithium Property is located in northwestern
Figure 2. Lithium deposits and occurrences of northwestern
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The Property
The Smiley Lithium Property has numerous indications of potential lithium-bearing pegmatites ((LCT-pegmatites) Li, Cs, Ta) that make this Property of high merit. These include:
1) Property is hosted within a muscovite-bearing S-type peraluminous granite in contact with metasediments. Peraluminous granites are fertile and associated with many lithium deposits in northwestern
2) Straddles the subprovince boundary between the Marmion and Quetico Subprovinces.
3) OGS mapped muscovite-tourmaline granite pegmatites. Muscovite and tourmaline are good mineralogical indications of fertile parental granite fractionation of lithium-bearing pegmatites ((Breaks et al., 20031).
4) Fault and fracture systems conducive for pathways for granitic fractionating melts.
5) Drilling just southwest of the Property by HTX Minerals (“HTX”) in 2011 intersected several quartz-feldspar mica pegmatites up to 3.4m downhole hosted within metasediments. At the time HTX was exploring for rift related ultra-mafic mineralization. Drill logs describe greenish feldspar (this could be possible spodumene as spodumene can be greenish and have a feldspar-like crystal appearance), a blue-transparent angular crystals (possible beryl), coarse muscovite and tourmaline or columbite-tantalite minerals (assessment file 20000009203). These are all good mineralogical indications of LCT-pegmatites (Breaks et al., 20031).
6) Analysis of one of two holes that intersected pegmatites returned elevated Cs (cesium) values up to 40.5 ppm, Rb (rubidium) values up to 206 ppm and Ta (tantalum) values up to 16.8 ppm. Lithium or beryllium was not analyzed for. All the above elements are well elevated and anomalous beyond average crustal levels (Breaks et al., 20031).
7) Elevated lithium lake sediment results conducted by the OGS on and proximal to the Property.
Figure 3. Regional geology and structure of the Smiley Lithium Property.
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Figure 4. Lithium lake sediment results of the Smiley Lithium Property. Source OGS.
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The Transaction
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Figure 1
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Regional location of the Smiley Lithium Property.
Figure 2
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Lithium deposits and occurrences of northwestern Ontario within geological subprovinces.
Figure 3
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Regional geology and structure of the Smiley Lithium Property.
Figure 4
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Lithium lake sediment results of the Smiley Lithium Property. Source OGS.
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