Alpha Lithium Expands Geophysics Program Based on Early Success at Its Tolillar Lithium Project, Argentina
August 05 2020 - 9:00AM
Alpha Lithium Corporation (TSX.V: ALLI) (OTC:
ALLIF) (“
Alpha” or the
“
Company”) is pleased to announce that based on
the exceptional results of the first phase of Alpha’s high-powered
Vertical Electrical Sounding (“VES”) geophysics program (see press
release July 16, 2020), the Company has decided to expand its area
of investigation and survey additional acreage in the southern
portion of the Tolillar Salar.
The southern portion of the Tolillar Salar is
characterized by basaltic flows on the western edge, similar to
what is seen in the Hombre Muerto Salar, 10km directly east of the
Tolillar Salar. Additionally, it was previously unknown if the
700-meter-thick upper layer of sedimentary rock in the southern
portion was brine bearing, or if it was linked to a lithium
source. What is exciting for the Company is that it appears
as though the highly conductive, presumably brine-bearing zones in
the north (where the presence of both brine and lithium have been
confirmed) appear to extend south, beyond the captured geophysical
data. It also appears that these conductive zones extend from
surface to depths of 400-450 meters below surface. This southern
area is previously unexplored; and the Company now believes it may
hold significant potential.
The Company anticipates that exploration of the
new southern acreage will identify additional high-conductivity
horizons and yield significant drilling targets and similar results
to what was found during our initial VES survey. The Company’s
first VES survey demonstrated that the southern limits of the area
investigated identified high conductivity that extended south,
beyond the data points.
The previous, high-powered VES survey was shot
on a small portion of the Company’s 100% wholly owned, 27,500
hectares, over legacy data points that required validation. The
Company’s high-powered survey successfully detected several
horizons of high conductivity and likely represent subsurface brine
deposits. The results coincide with shallow tests previously
conducted on the salar, which identified the presence of both brine
and lithium.
The detailed operations and planning for a new,
expanded southern-area VES survey are underway and arrangements are
being made with Conhidro SRL (“Conhidro”), the same team of experts
that performed the original VES survey, to conduct the expanded
survey.
Brad Nichol, President and CEO, commented, “What
an exciting time for Alpha Lithium. On the heels of an
exceptionally successful high-powered geophysics program, we are
eager to follow the obvious trend south into uncharted territory
and open up an exciting new portion of the Tolillar salar. The
southernmost extent of our previous VES survey demonstrated
obvious, thick, conductive horizons which mandate following the
trend to see what we can uncover. We will continue to refine
our drilling targets from the first survey and look forward to
adding more drilling locations to the mix when we get the results
of this second VES survey.”
The Company will report when the southern
extension geophysics operations commences.
Qualified PersonMr Pablo Gomez
MSc (Hydrogeol) MAIG, Principal Hydrogeologist of Tuareg Geological
Services. Mr. Gomez is a member of the Australian Institute of
Geoscientists (AIG), a practicing hydrogeologist with extensive
experience exploring lithium salt lakes. Mr Gomez is a professor at
the University of Salta in Argentina and has worked on several
advanced lithium brine projects. He is an independent consultant of
Alpha, Mr. Gomez is a Competent Person as defined in the JORC Code
(2012) and in 43-101 who has reviewed and approved the scientific
and technical content in this release.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF ALPHA
LITHIUM CORPORATION
“Brad Nichol”
Brad NicholPresident, CEO and Director
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information:
Alpha Lithium Investor Relations Tel: +1 844 592
6337info@alphalithium.com
About Alpha Lithium (TSX.V: ALLI) (OTC:
ALLIF)
Alpha Lithium is a growing team of industry
professionals and experienced stakeholders focused on the
development of the Tolillar Salar. Together, we have
assembled 100% ownership of what may be one of Argentina’s last
undeveloped lithium salars, encompassing 27,500 hectares (67,954
acres), neighboring multi-billion-dollar lithium players in the
heart of the renowned “Lithium Triangle”. Other companies in
the area exploring for lithium brines or currently in production
include Galaxy Lithium and POSCO at salar Hombre de Muerto; Livent
at salar Hombre de Muerto; Orocobre on salar Olaroz; Eramine
SudAmerica S.A. on salar Centenario; Gangfeng and Lithium Americas
on salar Cauchari;
For more information visit:
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