Temas Resources (ASX:TIO) has completed a high-resolution airborne LiDAR survey at the La Blache and Lac Brule projects located in Québec, Canada, ahead of future engineering and Feasibility studies.
The new dataset intends to expedite future drilling campaigns, fieldwork, and infrastructure planning, integrating recent diamond drilling results with previous campaigns to enable refined geological, engineering, and modelling.
Assay results from recent drilling are expected to be returned to market from January 2026 onwards, while the company re-evaluates 181 historically drilled holes across an area of 36,614m for gallium and rare earth elements potential. Results are expected in March 2026.
CEO Tim Fernback says the completion of the LiDAR survey provides Temas an “exceptionally detailed view of the terrain across both La Blache and Lac Brule”.
“This rich dataset materially strengthens our technical foundation for future work, including drill targeting, engineering planning, and environmental baseline studies,” Fernback says.
“It further positions Temas to integrate all geological and structural data as we progress toward next-generation project optimisation and value creation.”
COO David Caldwell adds Temas has a sharper and more accurate understanding of the rare-earth surface which elevates the company’s spatial foundation at the project.
“In practice this newly acquired dataset will become the master topographic control for environmental, permitting, geological modelling, targeting, resource modelling and engineering, pit design, haul road layout, and pit slopes for each of the deposit areas at La Blache,” Caldwell adds.
“We have also engaged a re-surveying program for the legacy handheld collar locations which can also have inaccuracies of up to 10s of metres.
“Together the sub-decimetre quality differential GPS and the new LiDAR coverage comfortably bring our spatial accuracy, precision, and understanding to the level required by Feasibility level work on this world class vanadium titanomagnetite (VTM) resource at La Blache.”
Temas is focused on developing its patented regenerative chloride leach (RCL) technology with results expected in early CY2026.
This technology is targeting up to 65% in cost reductions while simultaneously enhancing critical metals recovery.
Fernback adds that both La Blache and Lac Brule are considered compelling for multi-element potential that can be further developed with the company’s RCL technology.
“Early observation of gallium and scandium alongside titanium and vanadium broaden potential revenue streams and provide additional datasets to inform our RCL advancement,” Fernback says.
“Temas plans to both licence and joint venture the use of this technology internationally now that it has been shown to assist in developing metallurgically complex gold, silver, nickel, critical mineral, and rare earth element deposits.
“We look forward to progress across geochemistry, metallurgical testing, and technology validation in early 2026.”
Temas Resources owns numerous green mineral processing technologies, applied to its mineral exploration portfolio in North America.
Write to Maddison Elliott at Mining.com.au
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