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Sokoman and Benton Report Kraken Lithium Discovery Best Drill Intercepts to Date
Soil sampling expands footprint. GH-22-27 cuts 15.23 m @ 1.04% Li 2 O; including 4.18 ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Sokoman and Benton Report Kraken Lithium Discovery Best Drill Intercepts to DateSoil sampling expands footprint.GH-22-27 cuts 15.23 m @ 1.04% Li2O; including 4.18 m @ 1.48% Li2OST. JOHNS, NL / ACCESSWIRE / February 16, 2023 / Sokoman Minerals Corp. (TSXV:SIC)(OTCQB:SICNF) (\"Sokoman\") and Benton Resources Inc. (TSXV:BEX) (\"Benton\") together, (the \"Alliance\") are pleased to report the final assays from the Phase 3 drill program, completed in December 2022, on the Golden Hope Joint Venture. The drilling totalled 1,607 m in 11 drill holes including initial drilling on the Killick Zone (see October 18, 2022, and November 30, 2022 news releases), the Kraken Dyke and the Kraken West Dyke. All three holes drilled at the Killick Zone (GH-22-25 to 27) gave the best lithium intersections on the project to date as follows:GH-22-25 - multiple spodumene-bearing pegmatite dykes with 14.74 m of 0.64% Li2O, including 5.73 m of 0.92% Li2OGH-22-26, 26 m behind GH-22-25 - multiple spodumene-bearing pegmatite dykes with 9.5 m of 1.08% Li2O, including 2.15 m of 2.01% Li2OGH-22-27, 30 m N of holes 25 and 26 along strike - 15.23 m of 1.04% Li2O, including 4.18 m of 1.48% Li2O and 2.98 m of 1.23% Li2O.The Killick Zone remains open in all directions.Six holes tested the Kraken Discovery Zone (see Figure 1) (see June 30, 2022 news release) with three, GH-22-28, 29, and 35 intersecting multiple spodumene-bearing pegmatite dykes, including 2.10 m of 1.02% Li2O in hole GH-22-28, 2.10 m of 1.18% Li2O in hole GH-22-29 and 1.50 m of 1.25% Li2O in hole GH-22-35.Two drill holes on the Kraken West Dyke and one hole on the Kraken Discovery Zone had no visible spodumene, with only narrow (<1 m) pegmatite dykes in hole GH-22-30. A summary of the results follows in Table 1, drill locations are shown in Figure 1, cross-sections in Figures 2 and 3 and lithium-in-soil data in Figure 4.Soil geochemistry continues to expand the overall footprint of potential lithium- (+/- cesium, tantalum and rubidium) enriched dykes at least 2,000 m to the northeast of the known mineralization at the Killick Zone (see Figure 4). Soil anomalies in lithium are of a similar tenor (less than detection limit to 390 ppm Li) to those over known mineralization that have recently been received and are priority prospecting targets for this spring.A minimum 5,000 m Phase 4 drill program is ...