Vancouver-based Patriot Battery Metals has initiated the approvals process for the Corvette project, submitting the preliminary information statement to the Quebec government.
The submission represents the first step in the environmental and social impact assessment process.
“To progress to this point after just over two years’ worth of work is both a credit to them and points to the significance of the discovery. Corvette is an outstanding project, which hosts numerous spodumene-bearing pegmatites including CV5, one of the pegmatite clusters that was subject of an initial inferred mineral resource estimate (MRE) previously announced,” said president and CEO Blair Way.
The CV5 spodumene pegmatite hosts a maiden MRE of 109.2-million tonnes at 1.42% lithium oxide inferred and ranks as the biggest lithium pegmatite resource in the Americas, based on contained lithium carbonate equivalent.
Patriot is currently evaluating Corvette as a spodumene lithium openpit mining operation.