The guidelines — which had inputs from an evaluation committee (known as COMEV) consisting of members from the Cree Nation, Quebec and Canadian governments — will serve as the roadmap to completing the ESIA, said Patriot’s CEO Ken Brinsden.
Patriot, led by a management team with experience in Australia, is currently evaluating Corvette as a potential hard-rock spodumene mining operation. The project is located in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region, close to regional road and powerline infrastructure.
Based on company calculations, Corvette is home to the largest lithium pegmatite resource in the Americas. An initial estimate on the CV5 pegmatite alone showed an inferred resource of 109.2 million at 1.42% Li2O; estimates on a cluster of other pegmatites are still to come.
According to Alix Drapack, VP of ESG at Patriot, the guidelines from COMEV were “clear and consistent” with other proposed mining projects of this…
