Vital Battery Begins Exploration at its Dickson Lake Lithium Project

Vital Battery Metals Inc. reported that it has begun its preliminary Exploration Program (Program) at its Dickson Lake Lithium Project (Project) in Northwestern Ontario. Clark Exploration Consulting Inc, which has been offering geological consulting services in Ontario, Canada, as well as several other jurisdictions both in Canada and internationally since 1987, will lead the Program.

The following are some of the Project’s highlights:

• Adjacent to Rock Tech Lithium’s Georgia Lake Project, which has an indicated and inferred mineral resource of 14.8MT of Li₂O.
• Imagine Lithium’s Jackpot Deposit, which has a historical resource of 2 MT of Li₂O and is now being drilled for additional lithium targets and prospective resource expansion.
• On the Project, there are 25 mapped pegmatite outcrops that have not been adequately investigated for LCT (lithium, cesium, and tantalum) mineralization.
• The Project’s mapped pegmatites are housed in metasedimentary migmatites/paragneisses and felsic intrusives, a geological environment comparable to earlier successful LCT pegmatite finds in the Quetico subprovince (Lowther, Georgia Lake).
• The existence of lake sediment anomalies (Lithium/Cesium) in the Project’s northeast indicates the possibility of LCT mineralization.

The Program aims to discover, delineate, and sample pegmatite dikes on the property. The Company will start the Program by focusing on earlier mapping, which suggests that the Project contains at least 25 pegmatite outcrops. These are mostly white and pink pegmatite with minimal aplite (garnet, biotite, and tourmaline).

The mapped pegmatites range in size from single small outcrops to areas 1,000 m long and 100 m wide. Furthermore, the Company will try to discover new pegmatite outcrops as well as perform comprehensive sampling and mapping throughout the Project. The gathered samples will be analyzed at AGAT Laboratories in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Exploring the previously mapped pegmatites on the Project as well as establishing detailed mapping will allow Vital to lay the groundwork for our future Programs in 2023 and beyond. We believe the Project has many promising characteristics and if the pegmatites are confirmed to be lithium bearing, Vital will move quickly to further advance the Project in 2023 to prepare for drilling.

Adrian Lamoureux, Chief Executive Officer and President, Vital Battery Metals Inc.

The Quetico subprovince encompasses the Project, an Archean-aged terrane dominated by metasedimentary gneiss, derived migmatites, granitoid intrusives, and amphibolite. The rocks have experienced regional metamorphism to almandine–amphibolite facies.

Greywacke dominates metasedimentary rocks, with smaller amounts of arenite and arkose. Migmitization of these metasediments is widespread, with certain areas remaining untouched. Intrusive bodies vary in composition from granite to quartz monzonite and are, for the most part, in gradational contact with migmatite.