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Surge Battery Metals Announces its Lithium Exploration Plans in Nevada
(TheNewswire) November 9, 2021 - TheNewswire - Vancouver, BC - Surge ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Surge Battery Metals Announces its Lithium Exploration Plans in Nevada\n \n \n (TheNewswire)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n November 9, 2021\n \n \n - TheNewswire -\n \n \n Vancouver, BC - Surge Battery Metals Inc. (the “Company” or\n“Surge”) (TSXV:NILI\n \n \n ) (\n \n \n OTC:NILIF\n \n \n ) (\n \n \n FRA:\nDJ5C)\n \n \n is pleased to announce the overall\nexplorational rationale and proposed plans for the lithium exploration\nprogram to be conducted at its San Emidio Lithium project in\nNevada.\n \n \n \n \n The San Emidio Project is located in the San Emidio\nDesert, Washoe County, Nevada about 99 km north-northeast of Reno,\nNevada. The property position consists of 60 association placer claims\ncovering about 1942 Ha (4,800 acres) centered on the San Emidio playa.\n The target of this early-stage exploration project is a lithium\nbrine deposit similar to those at Clayton Valley, Nevada and similar\nother producing deposits in Chile and Argentina. These lithium rich\nbrines are thought to be the product of evaporative concentration of\ndissolved lithium leached from volcanic ash either by weathering or\ngeothermal fluids.\n \n \n \n \n San Emidio Valley is located in the northeastern corner\nof the Walker Lane, a structurally complex tectonic zone formed by\ninteraction of the NNW trending strike-slip movement of the Pacific\nPlate and ENE – WSW extension of the Great Basin.  This zone is\nstill geologically very active with numerous earthquakes and recent\nvolcanic activity.  The interplay of the two structural regimes\nresults in a trans-tensional environment characterized by deep\nrhombochasm basins and steep ranges.  Since the extensional movement\nis on-going, the basins continue to sink, preserving the basin fill\nand fluids.\n \n \n \n \n The oldest geologic formations in the Fox and Lake\nRanges are Triassic and Jurassic metasediments of the Nightingale\nSequence.  These rocks were folded and faulted during the Mesozoic\nand intruded by Jurassic and Cretaceous age plutons. The package was\nuplifted and eroded prior to the middle Tertiary.  Volcanic flows and\nclastic rocks of the Pyramid Sequence were deposited on a fairly flat\nsurface during the middle Miocene.  The Truckee Formation, another\npackage of volcanic sandstones and volcanoclastic rocks wa...