Canadian exploration company Q2 Metals Corp (TSX-V:QTWO) reports results from its winter drill program confirm the continuity of mineralisation in some areas at its Mia Lithium Property in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay Territory of Québec.
The 2024 winter drill program targeted the western end of the more than 10km-long Mia Lithium Exploration Trend, located 22km from the Billy Diamond Highway, proximal to major hydro-powerline and all-season road infrastructure.
Combined with the 2023 fall drill program, 8,685m was completed over 50 drillholes along the Mia Trend.
Due to an abnormal fire season in 2023, much of the property remains completely untested as the field season was drastically shortened.
Further exploration will be undertaken at the 8,668 hectare Mia Lithium Property during the summer of 2024 with a two-week long property-wide ground mapping and sampling campaign.
The focus of the campaign will be on the continuation of the Mia Trend as well as the prospective Bruce and Lady trends that were identified at the end of the 2023 field season. Several high-priority targets were identified with the high-resolution aerial imagery and LiDAR that was collected at the end of the 2023 season.
The Mia Trend comprises a 10km-long series of sub-parallel pegmatite intrusions, of which there are 11 mineralised with spodumene at surface. The individual pegmatite bodies vary in thickness between a few metres and over 20m in some cases.
Q2 Metals VP Exploration Neil McCallum says the company’s ‘modest’ winter drill program continued to confirm the continuity of the mineralisation encountered during the fall drill program at the Mia 1, 2, and 3 zones.
“These results have provided us with information about what is happening across the broader Mia Trend and will be used to vector towards areas where we will test for thickening and higher-grade mineralisation,” he says.
The primary objective of the winter drill program was to follow up on the fall 2023 drilling along the Mia Trend, with a total of 20 drillholes completed for about 3,085m. One drill rig was used to test the main Mia 1, 2, and 3 with 11 drillholes; while a second drill rig tested the greater Mia Trend with nine holes at the Mia 5, 6, 7, 8, and Carte zones.
Drill results at the Mia Zone confirmed the previously announced spodumene mineralisation within a continuous pegmatite zone that dips gently to the north.
Thickness of the mineralised zone varies from 8m to 20m and extends about 600m east-west and roughly 375m north-south. The pegmatite body appears to be open to the west, east and north.
The winter program confirmed the continuity of the mineralisation in some areas of the zone, while also showing some grade variability at the northern portions of the pegmatite at depth, with pegmatite intervals as expected but without significant lithium grades in holes 42, 44, 46, and 48.
Write to Adam Orlando at Mining.com.au
Images: Q2 Metals
