Rock Tech Notifies Vendors of Intent to Proceed with Nogalito Acquisition
VANCOUVER, March 12, 2018 /CNW/ - Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (the "Company" or "Rock Tech") [TSX-V: RCK; Frankfurt: RJIB (WKN: A1XF0V)] is pleased to announce it has completed satisfactory due diligence on the Nogalito lithium property in Sonora, Mexico. As announced on February 20, 2018, the Company has entered into a Letter of Intent ("LOI") to acquire, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Minerales de Baterias SA de CV, a 100% interest in the Nogalito lithium property in Sonora, Mexico, subject to regulatory approval.
The Company has provided written notice to the property vendors stating its wishes to proceed with the transaction. Accordingly, Rock Tech has paid US$20,000 to the vendors per the terms of the LOI.
Rock Tech collected five (5) samples from unconsolidated surface sediments in the basin and analyzed their lithium content. All five samples were anomalous for lithium with assays ranging from 150 ppm to 600 ppm lithium, averaging 292 ppm lithium. US Borax Inc. collected 136 sediment samples in 1990 of which 108 returned values between 200 ppm and 498 ppm lithium, twenty-seven (27) returned values between 523 ppm and 968 ppm lithium and one returned a value of 1,166 ppm lithium.
Martin Stephan, Chief Executive Officer of Rock Tech, commented, "The Nogalito project represents a low-cost acquisition for Rock Tech's shareholders, though our expectations of its potential are high as past operators have sampled as high as 1,166 ppm lithium and our due diligence samples returned up to 600 ppm lithium. Our short-terms goals will be to work with the relevant authorities to have the claims granted and develop and execute work programs aimed at confirming the presence of a basin containing lithium-rich brine."
Additionally, the Company is pleased to announce the continued business relationship with Arriva Management Inc. ("Arriva") for mineral exploration and technical consulting work. Arriva will continue to provide technical geologic and strategic consulting to the Company to build upon the Company's successful exploration efforts.
All scientific and technical information in this news release was reviewed and prepared under the supervision of Locke B. Goldsmith, P.Eng., P.Geo., an independent Qualified Person to Rock Tech.
About the Nogalito Lithium Project
The Nogalito property is located in a Tertiary age geologic basin with favourable felsic volcanics, sandstones and siltstones in a volcanoclastic and tuff basinal sequence comprised of lithium-bearing clay horizons, volcaniclastic sediments, clayey sandstones and sandy and calcareous sediments. These are in a fault-bounded graben that contains the known lithium in a basin of approximately 16 kilometers long by 5 kilometers wide. The region is geologically similar in nature to deposits in Chile, Argentina and Nevada with lithium in volcanic rocks around the basin presenting the potential for brine-based lithium discoveries.
Exploration work previously conducted by US Borax Inc., in 1990, exploring for borate, led to the initial lithium discoveries. The Nogalito property has highly anomalous concentrations of lithium with values exceeding 1,000 ppm lithium in rock chip sampling of 1 metre channels across exposed stratigraphy. Of the US Borax Inc. sediment sampling, 108 samples collected during their exploration program returned values between 200 ppm and 498 ppm lithium, twenty-seven (27) samples returned values between 523 ppm and 968 ppm lithium and one sample returned a value of 1,166 ppm lithium.
About Rock Tech Lithium:
Rock Tech Lithium is an exploration company focused on acquiring and exploring properties in the field of lithium and other selected battery metals.
Rock Tech is the only exploration company in the Georgia Lake region of Ontario with an NI 43-101 resource estimate. The resource estimate shows an indicated resource estimate of 3.19 million tonnes grading 1.10% lithium oxide in addition to an inferred resource estimate of 6.31 million tonnes grading 1.00% lithium oxide. Further, the Company has completed metallurgical testing on a bulk sample demonstrating the ability to produce both a high-grade spodumene concentrate and battery-grade lithium carbonate ("Li2CO3"). The spodumene-bearing pegmatites of the Georgia Lake area were originally discovered in 1955.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Company,
"Martin Stephan"
Martin Stephan
Director, Chief Executive Officer
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SOURCE Rock Tech Lithium Inc.
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