Overview

The Sundown lithium project is in the world-class James Bay lithium province, host to several advanced lithium projects and new lithium discoveries in Canada and comprises 510 mining claims spanning over 260km².

The project has over 200 documented outcropping pegmatites reported across the vast ~260km² tenement holding, providing excellent potential for a new hard rock lithium discovery.

The project is located between Allkem’s (ASX: AKE) James Bay deposit with a lithium resource of 110.2Mt at 1.3% Li2O¹, and Patriot Battery Metals (ASX: PMT) Corvette lithium discovery with a maiden lithium resource of 109.2Mt at 1.42% Li2O² within a 214km² land package.  These resources attest to the significant lithium endowment in the James Bay area, and with a limited lithium exploration history, the company is further encouraged that the James Bay area has significant potential for new discoveries.

Sundown Geology

• Geology consists of paragneiss and migmatites of the Laguiche Complex that have been disrupted by multiple intrusions consisting of granodiorite, pegmatitic granite and tonalite.
• Intrusions are peraluminous and type S and, with increasing fractionation, are favourable for the development of lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites.
• +200 pegmatites in outcrop across the project area identified by The Québec Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MERN).
• In 2022 MERN geologists identified the Gladman Suite as a new lithium prospective zone that is characterised by the presence of numerous E-W trending pegmatitic granite dykes.
• The presence of tourmaline, garnet and muscovite in the rocks of the Gladman Suite indicates a hyperaluminous composition suitable for the development of lithium mineralisation.

1. See ASX:AKE Announcement – James Bay Mineral Resource increased by 173% to 110.2 million tonnes. – 11 August 2023 ↩︎
2. See ASX:PMT Announcement – Patriot Announces the Largest Lithium Pegmatite Resource in the Americas at CV5, Corvette Property, Quebec, Canada. – 30 July 2023 ↩︎