Vital Battery Metals Announces 2024 Exploration & Drilling Program on its Sting Copper Project - Seite 2

North Sting Claim Block

• The North Sting Claim Block hosts the northerly extension of the prospective mineralized trend within the Jumbo-Lode Claim Block. The company considers this area to be underexplored and prospective for further discoveries.

• Additional soil geochemical surveys and prospecting will be completed in this area (Fig. 4). A VTEM survey will be flown over this claim block to define prospective areas for more detailed targeting.

Figure 1: Sting Copper Project Location Map

Drill Program

It is anticipated that the company will complete a fall 2024 drill program, pending receipt of drill permits at the Jumbo-Lode Claim Block and after data from the 2024 surface exploration program has been received.

• Drilling at the Jumbo-Lode Claim Block will test the subsurface extent of multiple targets, including historic showings, soil anomalies, and mineralized outcrops.

• Previous drilling results obtained outside of the Sting Property include (a) 2.12% Cu across 7.2m (DDH GR-91-2), immediately adjacent to the Lode 9 mineral occurrence (Assessment file 012G/08/0098) and (b) 1.19g/t Au, 10.2g/t Ag, 1.05% Zn, and 0.78% Cu over 8.29 m (DDH GGR-06-04) near the boundary of Sting Group Claims) to the northeast of Red Lode in 2006 (Assessment file 012G/08/0127, readers are cautioned that mineralization hosted on adjacent properties is not necessarily indicative of mineralization hosted on Vital’s claim block). The Drilling Program will test for extensions of these mineralized zones within the Sting Property.
  

 

Figure 2: Sting Copper Project Areas of Planned Work

Figure 3: Jumbo-Lode Claim Block Planned Work and Historical Soil Sample Results

Figure 4: North Sting Planned Soil Sampling

Adrian Lamoureux, Vital’s Chief Executive Officer and President, comments, “The upcoming exploration programs represent the next step in advancing the Sting Project and to build upon the favorable results obtained in 2023. The Work Programs present us with an opportunity to define the scope of mineralization at the project and continue unlocking its full potential.”

Historical and recently acquired field data both support mineralized zones in the Jumbo-Lode Claim Block having northerly trends and moderate to steep westerly dips. Field teams will work within the Project to confirm these observations. Future Drill Programs will target the approximate true widths of this mineralization.