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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / June 20, 2023 / Q Battery Metals Corp. ("Q Battery Metals" or the "Company) (CSE:QMET) is pleased to announce targeted rock sampling has been initiated on the La Corne South project, located north of Val d'Or, Quebec. The Q Battery sampling team will be exploring areas where prior sampling returned elevated lithium values from work programs that were not designed to test for lithium. The work is being guided by Dr. Mathieu Piché', a director and OGQ Geoscientist for Q Battery.
In 2021 Q Battery conducted a work program to test outcrops for multi-element VMS potential. Rock sampling undertaken in the area of the Boily Berube' mineral showing returned a number of results over 100 ppm lithium and up to 468 ppm (see Q Battery news release dated March 7, 2023). The samples were taken from outcrop ridges that will be re-sampled during this current targeted program. The team will also attempt to better locate the Boily Berube' mineral showing that is described as a trench completed in 1989 exposing pegmatite containing molybdenite and bismuthinite. The rocks were not analyzed for lithium at that time. The targeted sampling will test this material for lithium, as well as sampling other trenches completed during the 1989 work program.
Q Battery will also locate drill collars for holes completed by prior operators. This includes drill hole FIE 15-04-02 completed in 2004 by Falconbridge that returned elevated lithium (to 333 ppm) from core samples (see Q Battery news release dated June 12, 2023). None of the historic drilling was designed to test for pegmatite or lithium, with only a select number of hole samples analyzed for multiple elements to include lithium.
Summary of lithium results from drill hole FIE-15-04-01 (Falconbridge, 2004)
| Hole id | From (m) | To (m) | Sample id | Length | Li (ppm) |
| FIE 15-04-01 | 171.9 | 173.4 | 502575 | 1.5 | 106 |
| FIE 15-04-01 | 174 | 175.5 | 502577 | 1.5 | 120 |
| FIE 15-04-01 | 186.1 | 187.6 | 502580 | 1.5 | 333 |
Summary of 2021 Rock Sampling, elevated lithium
| SampleID | Lithology Code | Lithology Summary | UTM_E | UTM_N | SampType | Li |
| B0116756 | I4 (AM) GG | Ultramafic, coarse grained | 298678 | 5353828 | Grab | 468 |
| B0116786 | V3B | Basalt | 298676 | 5353877 | Grab | 374 |
| B0116758 | I3A GM | Gabbro | 298679 | 5353848 | Grab | 203 |
| B0116769 | I3A PO AM | Gabbro with pyrrhotite | 298893 | 5353864 | Grab | 153 |
| B0116771 | V3B | Basalt | 298743 | 5353654 | Grab | 103 |
| B0116763 | V3B | Basalt | 298682 | 5353906 | Grab | 94 |
This current targeted sampling program will assist in identifying areas for more intensive exploration to be undertaken during the summer. The intention of 2023 exploration on the La Corne South project is to identify potential lithium-bearing pegmatites that can be diamond drilled this coming fall and winter.