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Focus Graphite Starts Phase 1 Drilling at Southwest MOGC and West Limb Targets at Lac Tétépisca, Québec
The new drilling program is designed to explore for satellite deposits within a radius of fi...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Focus Graphite Starts Phase 1 Drilling at Southwest MOGC and West Limb Targets at Lac Tétépisca, QuébecThe new drilling program is designed to explore for satellite deposits within a radius of five km of the Company's recently announced MOGC natural flake graphite deposit.KINGSTON, ON / ACCESSWIRE / March 15, 2022 / Focus Graphite Inc. (TSXV:FMS)(OTCQB:FCSMF)(FRANKFURT:FKC) (\"Focus\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to report the start of a first phase of 3,000 m of exploration drilling at its 100%-owned Lac Tétépisca graphite project, located southwest of the Manicouagan Reservoir in the Côte-Nord administrative region of Québec on the Nitassinan of the Pessamit Innu.The new drilling program will test two high priority graphitic targets at the Lac Tétépisca project, \"Southwest MOGC\" and \"West Limb\". The Southwest MOGC target encompasses the southwestern extension of the linear kilometre-scale ground geophysical Magnetic (MAG) - Electromagnetic (\"EM\") anomaly which hosts the Company's recently announced Manicouagan-Ouest Graphitic Corridor (\"MOGC\") flake graphite deposit (Figure 1). On February 17, 2022, Focus announced a pit-constrained Indicated resource of 59.3 Mt tonnes (\"Mt\") grading 10.61% Graphitic Carbon1 (\"Cg\") for the MOGC deposit for an estimated content of 6.3 Mt of natural flake graphite (in-situ), and an Inferred resource of 14.9 Mt grading 11.06% Cg1 for an estimated content of 1.6 Mt of natural flake graphite (in-situ) (refer to Focus news release dated February 17, 2022, available on the Company's Web site at www.focusgraphite.com, for additional details).Phase 1 drilling will also test the Company's West Limb target, a second linear kilometre-scale ground MAG-EM anomaly that is parallel to the MOCG MAG-EM anomaly but is located 2 km to the West (Figure 1). Prospecting and outcrop sampling conducted by Focus along a 900 m segment of the West Limb graphitic target in 2014 returned 15 paragneiss grab samples with Cg grades ranging from 1.06% to 54.20%, nine of which graded over 16.00% Cg (Source: Focus technical reported dated May 2015, available at https://sigeom.mines.gouv.qc.ca/, under assessment work report GM 69493).\"Our primary goal for 2022 at our Lac Tétépisca project is to confirm our hypothesis that the Southwest MOGC and West Limb target...