Pontax... A Lithium Find
Reconnaissance on the lithium occurrence, geological sketches were done and eight
grab-samples were collected on a spodumene pegmatite dykes swarm. Those samples assays: 4.08%,
2.71%, 2.90%, 5.46%, 4.02, and 2.06% Li2O. Additional to the lithium, the samples yield rubidium (Rb)
contents from 305 to 1990 ppm (average of 911 ppm Rb); tantalium (Ta) contents from 12 to 79 ppm
(average of 43 ppm Ta); cesium (Cs) contents from 37 to 330 ppm (average of 127 ppm Cs), and niobium
(Nb) contents from 26 to 97 ppm (average of 54 ppm Nb).
In October, Sirios and Dios have completed the lithium exploration program recently announced on the
Pontax property in James Bay, Quebec. Seven diamond drill holes totalling 864 metres tested a portion of
the 400 metre swarm of lithium pegmatites that now extends to a minimum of 650 metres in strike length as
a result of the discovery of new pegmatites on surface in addition to the ones already identified last summer.
Drill and channel results can be foun on the map above.
All of the seven drill holes intersected the main zone of pegmatitic lithium dykes, varying from 30 to 50
metres in thickness, the zone is open both laterally and at depth. The pegmatites, found in mafic volcanic
rocks, generally vary between 3 to 5 metres in thickness but can also reach 9, 11 and 13.5 metres in
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thickness. The pegmatites are mineralized in spodumene (lithium mineral) whereas many of the volcanic
rocks contained holmquistite, another lithium mineral.
Detailed geological mapping and systematic channel sampling of 205 rock samples were also completed
during the drilling program. Seven series of channel samples composed of 1 metre each were spread over a
