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Power Metals Confirms Large Abundance of Lithium and Other Key Elements at Tot Lake
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nPower Metals Confirms Large Abundance of Lithium and Other Key Elements at Tot Lake\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nVANCOUVER, July 11, 2018\n\n\n\nVANCOUVER, July 11, 2018 /CNW/ - Power Metals Corp. (\"Power Metals Corp.\" or the \"Company\") (TSX VENTURE:PWM) (FRANKFURT:OAA1) (OTC:PWRMF) is pleased to announce that their geological mapping team has confirmed the presence of abundant high-grade Lithium (Li), Cesium (Cs) and Tantalum (Ta) mineralization at Tot Lake pegmatite, Webb township, 30 km northeast of Dryden, northwestern Ontario. The focus of the exploration program at Tot Lake is Lithium mineralization in the form of pale green, white and pink blades of spodumene. Additionally, we are fortunate to have found Cesium mineralization (i.e., pollucite) and Tantalum mineralization (i.e., Ta-oxide minerals).\n\n\n \n \n\n \nSpodumene is present throughout the Tot Lake pegmatite, which has an abundance of impressive megacrystic spodumene blades. Pale green megacrystic spodumene blades up to 75 cm long and 15 cm wide were identified next to megacrystic K-feldspar crystals in historical trench 3 (Figure 1). \n\nThe Ta-oxide crystals are up to 1 by 2 cm in size and are some of the largest Ta-oxide crystals in pegmatites in the province of Ontario. Typically, Ta-oxide minerals are 1 to 2 mm in size. The Ta-oxides at Tot Lake occur along the outer margins of blocky albitized K-feldspar megacrysts (Figure 2). \n\nPollucite (Cs ore mineral) at Tot Lake is concentrated in a 1 by 5 m pod near the southwestern end of the pegmatite dyke where it comprises 32 vol% of the pod (Breaks et al., 2014). Power Metals geological mapping team found pollucite interstitial to parallel spodumene blades (Figure 3). Pollucite is rare in nature and is only known at four other pegmatite localities in Ontario (Breaks et al., 2014). Pollucite is an indicator mineral for extreme chemical fractionation. \n\nFigure 1 Megacrystic spodumene blade 75 cm long by 15 cm wide next to tape measure. Also shown megacrystic white K-feldspar, Tot Lake. \n\nFigu...