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MONUMENTAL MINERALS CORP. MULTISPECTRAL INTERPRETATION DEFINES AREA OF INTEREST FOR FURTHER EXPLORATION AT THE JEMI HEAVY RARE EARTH PROJECT, MEXICO
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n MONUMENTAL MINERALS CORP. MULTISPECTRAL INTERPRETATION DEFINES AREA OF INTEREST FOR FURTHER EXPLORATION AT THE JEMI HEAVY RARE EARTH PROJECT, MEXICO\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prnml40{\nMARGIN-LEFT:3.33em !IMPORTANT\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n \n VANCOUVER, BC\n \n \n ,\n \n \n Aug. 10, 2022\n \n \n /CNW/ - Monumental Minerals Corp. (\"\n \n Monumental\n \n \" or the \"\n \n Company\n \n \") (TSXV: MNRL) (FSE: BE5) (OTC: MNMRF) is pleased to announce the results of a recently completed satellite multispectral interpretation covering the Jemi Heavy Rare Earth (HREE) Project (\"Jemi\"), located in\n \n Coahuila, Mexico\n \n , about 40 km south of the\n \n Texas, USA\n \n border.\n \n \n The Jemi Project hosts numerous REE occurrences containing potentially economic concentrations of the high value magnetic REEs including dysprosium (Dy), terbium (Tb), neodymium (Nd) and praseodymium (Pr). The Project also contains anomalous grades of tantalum (Ta), niobium (Nb), and zirconium (Zr). Jemi sits within the North American Alkaline Igneous Belt, an under explored north-south 3000 km long trend of alkaline igneous rocks and carbonatites that are host to numerous REE, gold and other critical element deposits.\n \n \n ASTER satellite multispectral data was processed, imaged and interpreted over the Jemi Project. The band for fluorite (CaF\n \n 2\n \n ) and periclase (MgO) (Fig. 1a) may be associated with REE-bearing minerals, as fluorite is a common accessory mineral in HREE peralkaline systems, and periclase is a common mineral where peralkaline magmas have altered limestone host rock. Additionally, the combination of several spectral bands that represent minerals including fluorite, pyrite, hypersthene, epidote, garnet, and hemimorphite (a zinc mineral found in carbonate replacement deposits in northern\n \n Mexico\n \n ) correlate positively with REE lithogeochemical results from surface grab samples. These bands, plus REE grab sample concentrations were compared using a supervised machine learning method to create a probabi...