Volta starts 2024 exploration program
Volta Metals Ltd. has commenced the 2024 exploration campaign at its northwestern Ontario Properties.
The company is following up on the 2023 exploration success at its Falcon West Lithium Property where ten out of eleven diamond drillholes intersected multiple broad zones of high-grade lithium mineralization with one borehole discovering an additional blind Li-pegmatite. Highlights include 1.24% Li2O over 15.6m, 1.11 Li2O over 10.2m, and 1.50% Li2O over 5.15m. The mineralized system remains open for expansion in all directions.
The 2024 exploration program will consist of systematic soil sampling, trenching, and detailed structural geology work. Initial soil sampling will be carried out in and around targets generated from a detailed magnetic survey and 2023 soil sampling (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Soil anomalies obtained from the 2023 exploration program
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The initial soil sampling program will focus on screening the highly prospective target areas around the newly discovered high-grade lithium pegmatite swarm (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Structural lithium trend within the Falcon West Lithium Project
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Work has also commenced on the Junior Lake project and will involve the collection of surface exploration data, including, but not limited to, structural and alteration mapping, prospecting, sampling, and utilizing a handheld Lazer Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS) for rapid real-time sample analysis to support field follow-up. In addition, samples will be submitted to ACT Labs in Thunder Bay, Ontario for detailed multi-element chemical analysis.
The Company's technical advisor, Dr. Fred Breaks, commented, "We are pleased that follow-up exploration is underway on several properties prospective for rare metals, and lithium in the Caribou Lake metavolcanic belt. The Junior Lake claims commence two km east of the highly evolved Swole Lake lepidolite-subtype pegmatite that is hosted in the Summit Lake batholith. Rare metal pegmatites typically occur in swarms, which could extend onto the Junior Lake property. The Falcon West property is situated three km northeast of beryl-type pegmatites documented by Breaks, Selway and Tindle (2006). Current exploration will test the hypothesis that the fractionation direction of beryl-type and potential spodumene-bearing pegmatites extends further than the newly discovered lithium pegmatites within the Falcon West property."
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