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Trenching to commence at Leinster Lithium project
Trenching to commence at Leinster Lithium project.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n23 November 2023\n \nTechnology Minerals Plc \n(\"Technology Minerals\" or the \"Company\")\n \nKnockeen Trenching and New Assay Sampling Programme to Commence at Leinster Lithium Project, Ireland\nProgramme Targets Historically Reported 1970's Knockeen Trench Site with 1.8m Wide Bedrock Spodumene Bearing Pegmatite Dike \nTechnology Minerals Plc (LSE: TM1), the first listed UK company focused on creating a sustainable circular economy for battery metals, is pleased to announce that Global Battery Metals Ltd (\"GBML\"), (TSXV: GBML; OTCQB: REZZF; Frankfurt: REZ) has received an approved trenching permit from Ireland's Geoscience Regulation Office (GSRO) in relation to a short programme of trenching at its Knockeen lithium pegmatite project. The project is progressing under an ongoing and successful option agreement between GBML and Technology Minerals which is being operated by GBML.\nGMBL intends to open up a shallow trench for a total of 50 meters in total length, approximately 1 - 2m deep and up to 1 - 1.5m in width (see Figure 1), in order to confirm a previously announced historical spodumene bearing pegmatite dike in bedrock (PR January 18, 2023), and anticipates this will enable 3D visualisation of the 1.8m wide pegmatite reported from that time. The trench is designed to crosscut the pegmatite dike and then expose 10 - 20m along the strike length of it in order to then collect approximately 30-40 assay samples from the trench over the next 5-10 business days (see Figure 2). The trenching will also assist in the interpretation of the dike encountered in the 2023 summer drilling programme. Work on this small footprint of field area will be undertaken in close association with the landowner's approval.\n\nFigure 1: Knockeen Lithium Pegmatite Project\nGBML intends to open a shallow trench for a total of 50 meters in total length to confirm a previously announced historical spodumene bearing pegmatite dike in bedrock.\n \nThe approved permit is for up to 10 shallow trenches for a combined length of up to 200m for a period of up to two years on PL 1597. However, the current work is focusing on this single trench pegmatite target at this time. The permit was issued based on the full set of GSRO screening criteria being assessed and approved.\nThe current phase of detailed exploration work...