Champion Electric Metals Mobilizes Crew for Field Program Following Recent Lithium Discovery at Its Lithium Property in James Bay, Quebec
Champion Electric Metals Mobilizes Crew for
Field Program Following Recent Lithium
Discovery at Its Lithium Property in James
Bay, Quebec
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 4, 2024) -
Champion Electric Metals Inc.
(CSE:
LTHM) (OTCQB: CHELF) (FSE: 1QB0) ("
Champion Electric
" or the "
Company
") is pleased to report
that it has commenced preparations for the spring field program following discovery of lithium in its
maiden drilling program at its Lithium Property in James Bay, Quebec, with the crew on its way to the
site.
The maiden field program led to the discovery of the first buried lithium pegmatite on the western portion
of the property by following up on the discovery of spodumene in till samples.
Drill holes EIQ24-007 and
EIQ24-008 passed through shallow glacial cover
and encountered significant intervals of coarse
spodumene crystals and potentially economic lithium mineralization over two to three metres (see Figure
1). Given that pegmatite dykes occur in clusters and that this initial drilling may have just cut the narrow
tail of much larger dykes, the Champion Electric technical team has designed a follow-up field program
to target the likely continuation of the pegmatite mineral system.
Champion Electric's field work will commence immediately to the northeast of the recently discovered
mineralized pegmatite with prospecting, mapping, geophysics, and excavation and channel sampling.
The team will also continue with additional till sampling along the pegmatite trend. Field crews will be
clearing overburden and road building to prepare for the next round of drilling, for which permits have
been received and drill contracts assigned.
Jonathan Buick, President and CEO, commented
:
"Our team has previously used prospecting,
mapping, and geophysics to identify two parallel corridors of pegmatite stretching for more than 5 km,
and the geochemistry along those trends is favourable for more lithium mineralization. The field
season in 2023 was dramatically shortened by the fires, and we are armed with new high-resolution
LiDAR imagery and a number of pegmatite discovery stories where subtle spodumene-bearing
outcrop was identified by tenacious geologists and prospectors. We are determined to test this fertile
environment as exploration moves along those corridors. Now that we have seen till sampling
successfully lead us to spodumene, we are also continuing our systematic till sampling in the covered
areas of this vast property. We can already envision new drill targets kilometres away, but we are
initially focused on the continuation of the known targets along trend where they remain open."
Figure 1: Location map of the 2024 drill holes (EIQ24-007/008 highlighted)
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About the Project
The Champion Electric Lithium Property is close to the Trans-Taiga Road and covers the northern
extension of the Lac Guyer Greenstone Belt, which hosts neighbouring Patriot Battery Metals' Corvette
and
Winsome Resources' Cancet advanced projects
in the prolific James Bay region of Quebec (Figure
2).
Figure 2: Champion Electric Lithium Project location map
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Qualified Person
Dr. Eric Hebert, P.Geo., Senior Geological consultant, is a member (#0842) of the Ordre des Géologues
du Québec (OGQ) and a qualified person within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 and has
reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this press release. All aspects of the
drilling program were supervised by the Qualified Person.
About Champion Electric Metals Inc.
Champion Electric is a discovery-focused exploration company that is committed to advancing its highly
prospective lithium properties in Quebec, Canada and cobalt properties in Idaho, United States. In
addition, the Company owns the Baner gold project in Idaho County (optioned to Prestwick Capital
Corporation) and the Champagne polymetallic project in Butte County near Arco.
The Company's shares trade on the CSE under the trading symbol "LTHM", on the OTCQB under the
trading symbol "CHELF", and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol "1QB0". Champion
Electric strives to be a responsible environmental steward, stakeholder, and contributing citizen to the
local communities where it operates, taking its social license seriously, employing local community
members and service providers at its operations whenever possible.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF CHAMPION ELECTRIC
"Jonathan Buick"
Jonathan Buick, President, and CEO
To learn more, please visit the Company's SEDAR profile at
www.sedarplus.ca
or the Company's
corporate website at
www.champem.com
.
For further information, please contact:
Investor Relations and Communications
Phone: (+1) 416-567-9087
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include forward-looking information within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation, concerning
the business of the Company. Forward-looking information is based on certain key expectations and
assumptions made by management of the Company, including closing of the Transactions and the
prospectivity of the Projects for lithium. Although the Company believes that the expectations and
assumptions on which such forward-looking information is based on are reasonable, undue reliance
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The Projects are at an early stage of exploration, and the Company cautions that the qualified
persons who have reviewed and approved this news release have not verified scientific or technical
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