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Surge Battery Metals Receives Approval to Commence an Additional Drill Program Following the Latest Discovery
COQUITLAM, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 29, 2023 / Surge Battery Metals Inc. (the " Company " or " Su...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Surge Battery Metals Receives Approval to Commence an Additional Drill Program Following the Latest DiscoveryCOQUITLAM, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 29, 2023 / Surge Battery Metals Inc. (the \"Company\" or \"Surge\") (TSXV:NILI), (OTC PINK:NILIF), (FRA:DJ5C) is pleased to announce that following its significant lithium clay discovery at its Nevada North Lithium Project (NNLP) in late 2022, it has now received further approval from the Nevada Bureau of Land Management (BLM) permitting the next stage of drilling to further delineate this high-grade target.The Company plans to drill seven new locations within an extensive surface geochemical covering an area of about 1,700 meters east-west in mid-May 2023, subject to weather conditions. The drill program will occur in two bands, each roughly 300 to 400 meters wide, that outline a highly anomalous zone containing abundant sample points greater than 1,000 ppm lithium with samples as high as 5,950 ppm.Surge Battery Metals' CEO, Mr. Greg Reimer, commented, \"We are very pleased to have received approval to commence our next drill program at our Nevada North Project. Following on from the success of our 2022 drill program, we believe that our understanding of this lithium clay discovery has expanded greatly, and we are eager to drill these seven newly proposed drill locations. Drilling these locations is a major step in further assessing the ultimate deposits size of our lithium claystone resource at NNLP.\"These new drill targets have been selected with the intent to expand the currently identified lithium deposit both to the west and to the north and at the same time to determine continuity between the most northerly and most southerly holes drilled in 2022's maiden drill program.Proposed Drill Targets for May 2023 The first round of drilling, completed just before Christmas 2022, identified a strongly mineralized zone of lithium clay mineralization over a strike length of almost 1,620 meters from NN2205 in the north to NN2208 in the south. Widths of the mineralized horizons are not as well determined since the holes are mostly on a north-south alignment but are at least 400 metres wide, supported by highly anomalous soil values indicating potential for these horizons to be much greater.Potential for a significant lithium deposit is exemplified by hole NN2207 which intersected the thickest...