SAGA Metals (TSX-V:SAGA) has reported further assays from its wholly owned Radar Titanium-Vanadium-Iron Project in Labrador, Canada. Results include 23.3m @ 52.52% iron oxide (Fe₂O₃), 7.58% titanium dioxide (TiO₂), and 0.428% vanadium pentoxide (V₂O₅).
The interval in R-0066 sits within 47.8m @ 43.53% Fe₂O₃, 6.03% TiO₂, and 0.334% V₂O₅.
The results cover eight holes drilled at the Trapper Zone as part of SAGA’s maiden mineral resource estimate (MRE) program.
Other intercepts include 187m @ 41.61% Fe₂O₃, 6.07% TiO₂, and 0.280% V₂O₅ in R-0064, and 128m @ 46.11% Fe₂O₃, 6.79% TiO₂, and 0.326% V₂O₅ in R-0065. R-0065 includes 65.8m @ 49.48% Fe₂O₃, 7.24% TiO₂, and 0.373% V₂O₅.
The eight-hole batch also includes 194.8m @ 18.50% Fe₂O₃, 3.58% TiO₂, and 0.071% V₂O₅ in R-0069, representing the lowest iron, titanium, and vanadium grades among the reported headline intervals.
Chief Geological Officer Michael Garagan says the drilling is defining both the ‘higher-grade’ core and margins of the oxide system.
“The significance is that we’ve been able to define the shoulders while continuing to intersect long, continuous intervals of correlated titanium, vanadium and iron,” Garagan says.
Radar resource work advances
SAGA says it has now received results from 64 diamond holes completed for the MRE program. It expects assays from R-0072 to R-0079 during the week beginning 14 September, with the remaining samples expected to be analysed within two to three weeks.
Trapper forms part of a 29km² oxide-bearing lopolith, which also contains the Falcon and Hawkeye zones. The broader Radar Property comprises 690 mineral claims across nine licences covering about 24,175 hectares.
Elsewhere in Labrador, SAGA has begun up to 5,000m of maiden diamond drilling at its Wolverine Heavy Rare Earth Element Project, as previously reported. The program aims to extend mineralisation identified by reverse circulation drilling and support an initial MRE.
SAGA Metals is a Vancouver-based explorer focused on critical mineral projects in Labrador and Québec.
Write to France Pinzon at Mining.com.au
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