Global Energy Metals Provides Update On Millennium Project Graphite Discovery Including High-Grade Drilling Results
Vancouver, July 30, 2024 - Global Energy Metals Corp. TSXV:GEMC | OTCQB:GBLEF | FSE:5GE1 ("Global Energy Metals", the "Company" and/or "GEMC"), a multi-jurisdictional, multi-commodity critical mineral exploration, development and project generating company focused on growth-oriented projects supporting the global transition to clean energy, is pleased to announce results from recent diamond drilling that was completed and is being sole-funded by joint venture partner Metal Bank Ltd. ("Metal Bank" and/or "MBK") at the Millennium Project ("Millennium") in northwest Queensland, Australia. These results include significant high grade graphite intervals adjacent to the existing Co-Cu-Au mineral resource of 8.4Mt @ 1.23% CuEq (refer to news release dated March 21, 2023). Highlights
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High grade graphite returned from MI24DD001 including:
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2.6m @ 19.2% TGC (total graphitic carbon) from 168.4m;
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5.8m @ 17.4% TGC from 180m; and
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3.8m @ 17.6% TGC from 188m
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Graphite present in drilling over 2km of strike.
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Further graphite sampling and assay programs to unlock project value in progress.
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Millennium also hosts an existing Co-Cu-Au mineral resource of 8.4Mt @ 1.23% CuEq (See news releases dated July 15, 2024 and March 21, 2023).
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All drill holes completed in this program intersected varying levels of sulphide mineralisation - including chalcopyrite (copper) and cobaltite (cobalt) minerals.
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Due to growing corporate interest a data room for the project has been established and shared with third parties.
Mitchell Smith, CEO & President commented:
"These initial results from our partner funded drill program are encouraging and highlight previous geophysical anomalies which now support large scale graphite targets adjacent to the established cobalt-copper-gold resource at Millennium. MBK is currently working through its drill sample archive to undertake low-cost re-assaying for graphite to assess the potential for a graphite resource and have only just begun to unlock additional project value. In addition, following these encouraging exploration outcomes, the Millennium project has attracted growing corporate interest and Metal Bank has established a data room that has been shared with third parties."
Millennium Drilling Summary
Three diamond drill holes for 384m were completed at the Millennium Project in June (Figure 1, Table 1). This drilling targeted a resource extension in the central zone plus conceptual testing of the Fountain Range-Quamby Fault Zone after identifying anomalous copper to the west of the Millennium resource in previous drilling and copper-oxide-bearing siliceous breccia outcrops to the northwest of the current Millennium resource.
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Figure 1: Millennium plan overview showing recent drilling and results, previous rock chip %TGC results and >2km interpreted strike of graphite mineralisation on the western margins of the 2023 Co-Cu-Au resource outline.
MI24DD01 (Figures 1 and 2) was drilled to the west and away from the Millennium resource, testing between the mineralised Millennium structure and the interpreted steeply east-dipping Fountain Range-Quamby Fault Zone for mineralised sub-parallel structures and possible structural and/or genetic relationships. MI24DD01 intersected massive amphibolite and dolerite with trace chalcopyrite to 168.4m before a strongly graphitic metasediment unit to end of hole (Figure 3).
In the broad zones where visual graphite was intersected, total graphitic carbon (TGC) was assayed, with results (Table 2) including:
• 2.6m @ 19.2% TGC from 168.4m;
• 5.8m @ 17.4% TGC from 180m, and;
• 3.8m @ 17.6% TGC from 188m
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Figure 2: Millennium 7723300N section showing MI24DD01 and MI22RD03 extension results. Note apparent resource offset enhanced by structural offset and +/-50m search radius.
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These high-grade graphite results support strong rock chip results taken by a previous explorer, which extend some 800m in strike to the south within the same interpreted unit, and which average 17.0% TGC from 37 samples taken over a zone some 1,300m long and up to 100m wide. In addition, a review of previous drilling identified visual graphite intersections extending over a total strike length of greater than 2km to the north and south.
Graphite at Millennium is interpreted as associated with metamorphosed carbonaceous sediments near the margins of a large mafic unit/s and/or siliceous sediment units which run subparallel to the Millennium structure and Fountain Range-Quamby Fault Zone. Previous petrology identified graphite as intergrown and overgrown with metamorphic minerals in the main Millennium Cu-Co-Au mineralisation and recommended the role of graphite with metal mineralisation be further investigated, however no graphite-specific samples within main carbonaceous units were taken.
In other drilling, MI22RD03 (same section) extended a previous reverse circulation (RC) precollar hole from 156m to validate an apparent gap in the 2023 mineral resource. The hole immediately intersected copper-cobalt mineralisation associated with the main Millennium structure (slightly offset due to faulting not evident in RC drilling) and returned 23m @ 0.32% Cu and 0.09% Co with minor Au from 156m below a previous RC intersection of 12m @ 0.32% Cu from 136m. This hole validated the existing interpretation of the resource and lower grade domain along with identifying a minor structural offset not evident from previous RC drilling.
Hole MI24DD02 in the central north was drilled in difficult topography at a shallow angle to the west to test below a well-mineralised CuO-bearing siliceous breccia zone at surface and for a second intersection of the Fountain Range-Quamby Fault Zone. The hole was unable to be completed to target depth and was terminated short of adequately testing both targets.
Table 1: Drill hole details, Millennium Project June 2024
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All co-ordinates GDA94 Zone 54 co-ordinate system.
Table 2: Significant drill hole results, Millennium Project July 2024
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All intervals downhole weighted mean, 0.2% Cu (and/or 0.1% Co) or 5% TGC cut-off with maximum 3m internal dilution.
NW Queensland District Graphite Development
Millennium is strategically located between other NW QLD graphite development projects which are currently undergoing consolidation (Figure 3). The Corella deposit is located 14km to the south (13.5Mt @ 9.5% TGC) and the Burke deposit 107km due north (9.1Mt @ 14.4% TGC) of Millennium, both held by Lithium Energy (ASX:LEL), and the Mt Dromedary deposit (14.3Mt @ 13.3% TGC) held by Novonix (ASX:NVX and NASDAQ:NVX) is immediately adjacent to the Burke Deposit.
Millennium displays matching geology to the Corella deposit, with metamorphosed graphitic shales, slates and schists of the Milo Beds within the Tommy Creek Domain hosting both deposits, and both deposits are proximal to mafic units and structural corridors which are considered key factors for the development of high quality, high-grade graphite mineralisation.
Metallurgical test work to date on these nearby deposits (refer to LEL:ASX announcement of April 3, 2024: Merger of Lithium Energy and NONOIX Natural Graphite Assets and Proposed Axon Graphite Limited Spin-Out and IPO) has returned high-grade concentrate with high graphite recoveries coincident with electrochemical test work indicative of material highly suitable for downstream graphite processing and integration into modern battery manufacturing and other technologies.
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Figure 3: NW QLD graphite projects map (modified after Lithium Energy (ASX:LEL) website.
Forward Plan
Alongside its partner Metal Bank, Global Energy Metals remains committed to extracting maximum value from its Australian asset portfolio.
Graphite demand continues to grow in line with expansion in the electric vehicle (EV) lithium-ion battery sector, where graphite is the key raw material consumed in EV battery anodes.
Despite some recent price pressure, the long-term outlook for natural, ex-China graphite remains strong. As the industry targets diversified supply, the focus shifts to more ESG friendly, secure sources of graphite production and processing.
In line with this, the companies are jointly assessing the potential for further value to be unlocked from developing this graphite potential as part of the Millennium Project over the coming months. This includes additional surface mapping and sampling to establish graphite extents, a review of existing geophysical data and potential for further electrical geophysics to help define large graphite targets, and low-cost re-assaying of previous RC and diamond core laboratory samples, existing bulk samples and drill core for total graphitic carbon content where relevant and material.
The Company continues to monitor the NW QLD battery metals space as projects and regional infrastructure develops.
Qualified Person
Mr. Paul Sarjeant, P. Geo., is the qualified person for this release as defined by National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. He is a shareholder and Director of the Company.
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