“These results prove that the Ruby Hill West pegmatite we drilled this year carries both grade and thickness. We are currently in the field at Ruby Hill West and Windy Mountain identifying more pegmatite outcrops and stripping the outcrops near last winter’s drilling,” Xavier Braud, CEO of Benz Mining, said.
The Ruby Hill West lithium project represents a surface occurrence of spodumene-bearing LCT pegmatite within the Ruby Hill West project. The occurrence was first sampled in 2016 by Eastmain Resources and then by Quebec government geologists in 2018. Only limited sampling was conducted by both groups.
In the summer of 2021, a team of consultants working for Benz sampled the outcrop without sufficiently attempting to scrape the moss and other vegetation covering the underlying rocks. The samples collected returned best assay values of 2.59% Li2O, plus tantalum, rubidium and cesium.
Then in March 2022, Benz conducted a…
