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Surge Battery Metals Announces Staking of a New Lithium Property in Teels Marsh, Nevada
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / January 6, 2022 / Surge Battery Metals Inc. (the "Company" or "...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Surge Battery Metals Announces Staking of a New Lithium Property in Teels Marsh, NevadaVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / January 6, 2022 / Surge Battery Metals Inc. (the \"Company\" or \"Surge\") (TSXV:NILI)(OTC PINK:NILIF)(FRA:DJ5C) is pleased to announce that it has recently staked a 663 ha. (1,640 acres) property in the Teels Marsh Playa, Mineral County, Nevada. The property is located in an active region for both lithium exploration and production, about 84 km northeast of Albemarle's (ALB) Silver Peak brine mining operation in a similar geologic setting, and adjoining the Dajin Lithium Corp's (DJI) Teels Marsh Lithium project on the southwestern edge of the playa.To date, limited exploration has been conducted on the property including a gravity survey and various lithium brine and sediment samples. Playa sediment samples from the property have shown lithium values to 104.5 ppm Li and nearby hot springs sediments have been found to carry up to 500 ppm Li values during sampling.The property covers two sub-basins and a connecting buried paleo-channel defined in a detailed gravity survey conducted in 2020. These features may contain trapped lithium rich brines or volcanic ash aquifers similar to the Clayton Valley deposit setting.Surge plans to conduct additional exploration this spring designed to identify sites for drill tests and plans to review all previous exploration results on the Teels Marsh West Project, including other potential sites in the vicinity. This will be accomplished in early 2022, in order to guide a Spring/Summer 2022 exploration program aimed at locating lithium bearing montmorillonite clay deposits and lithium rich brines within the basins.Metallurgical testing of montmorillonite clay, a non-Hectorite clay, in nearby Clayton Valley indicates low-cost processing can be achieved by leaching with low acid consumption (125 kg/t) and high lithium recovery over 85 per cent Li. These high extractions prove that the dominant lithium-bearing minerals present are not hectorite, a refractory clay mineral which requires roasting and/or high acid consumption to liberate the lithium. (Refer to Cypress Development's Pre-Feasibility Study on Clayton Valley Lithium Project).About Teels Marsh West:Shallow auger holes and drill-holes (<60 m) show that unconsolidated basin fill deposits include clays, clastic rocks silts and...