RETRANSMISSION: Spearmint Rushes Assays After Encountering Visual Clay in Each of the First Three Completed Drill Holes
Vancouver, October 16, 2020 - Spearmint Resources Inc. (CSE: SPMT) (OTC Pink: SPMTF) (FSE: A2AHL5) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that each of the first three completed drill holes of the ongoing 2020 multi-hole drill program on its Clayton Valley lithium clay project (the "Project") have encountered visual clay, including intercepts of between 175-200 feet of targeted clay formation in each hole. Samples form the first three drill holes have been immediately sent for assaying on a rush basis. Spearmint continues to drill the remainder of its multi-hole drill program directly bordering Cypress Development Corp. (see picture and map). Recently (Aug. 11, 2020) Cypress reported a 55% increase in their lithium mineral resource for total measured plus indicated resource estimates of 929.6 million tonnes averaging 1,062 ppm Li or 5.2 million tonnes LCE. Management cautions that past results or discoveries on properties in proximity to Spearmint may not necessarily be indicative to the presence of mineralization on the Company's properties.
Image 1: Visual clay from Spearmint's 2020 drill program.
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James Nelson, President of Spearmint, stated, "We are very pleased the first three completed drill holes of our ongoing 2020 drill program have each encountered significant intercepts of clay. We are very encouraged from what we saw in these first three drillholes, so in order to get these results to the market as soon as possible, we have decided to have them sent out for immediate assaying on a rush basis. The eyes of the lithium world have been focused on Nevada ever since Tesla's Battery Day on September 22, 2020, when Elon Musk stated his intention to acquire Nevada lithium clay projects and expressed Tesla's overwhelming need to secure domestic lithium deposits to feed their Gigafactory. Spearmint has experienced previous success on our initial modest drill program targeting the clay in 2018 that returned grades as high 1670 ppm. While 2018's drill program occurred at a time when the general market conditions were anemic, management believes that positive results from its current drill program could have a much more meaningful impact at a time when the market is giving value to lithium projects specifically located in Nevada. This current multi-hole drill program will be much more robust than the 2018 drill program and may potentially give Spearmint the ability to delineate a potential resource on our portion of this lithium-bearing clay deposit that we share with Cypress Development Corp. This deposit is one of the select few clay deposits that exist in Nevada, of which Tesla has publicly stated they covet. In addition to our ongoing drill program in Nevada, Spearmint anticipates receiving results in the coming weeks from our recently completed work program on the Goose Gold Project in Newfoundland which directly borders, and is the closest property to New Found Gold's discovery hole (19.0 m of 92.9 g/t Au). As well, we have recently secured Laurentia Exploration of Quebec to commence operations in October on our Perron East gold project in Quebec. As you can see, Spearmint has multiple shots on goal for potential shareholder success and we are very optimistic about what the remainder of 2020 will bring."
Clayton Valley Ownership Map
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Mr. Greg Thomson, P.Geo., a director of Spearmint and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical disclosure contained within this news release.
About Spearmint Resources
Spearmint's current projects include the 'Goose' Gold project consisting of 185 acres directly bordering New Found Gold Corp. as well as the 'Clayton Valley Lithium Prospects' in Nevada comprising of two claim blocks totaling 1,160 acres bordering Pure Energy Minerals & Cypress Development Corp. where Spearmint's drill results have intersected Lithium values as high as 1670 ppm Li; the 'Escape Lake North' PGM Project in Ontario consisting of ~4,000 contiguous acres directly bordering Clean Air Metals Inc.; the Case Lake South Cesium Project in Ontario consisting of ~7,300 acres directly bordering Power Metals Corp.'s Case Lake Cesium Property; the River Valley East Platinum-Palladium Prospect in Ontario consisting of approximately 4,700 contiguous acres directly bordering New Age Metals flagship River Valley Platinum Group Metals (PGM) project; the Carscallen West Gold Project in Ontario consisting of a ~2500 contiguous acres in the direct vicinity to Melkior Resources Inc.; the Perron-East Gold Prospects consisting of 5 mineral claim blocks covering 11,608 acres located in the Abitibi greenstone belt of northwestern Quebec in the direct vicinity of Amex Exploration Inc.'s Perron property and past-producing Normetal mine; and the 'Chibougamau Vanadium Prospect' comprising of 15,493 contiguous acres directly bordering the vanadium deposit of BlackRock Metal's (private) Ilmenite vanadium project.
Spearmint's current projects also include a portfolio of prospects in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia; the 'Golden Triangle Gold Prospects' comprising of five separate claims blocks totaling 8,265 acres bordering GT Gold Corp, the 2,397 acre 'NEBA' Gold-Copper Prospects bordering Aben Resources Ltd, and the 'EL North' Nickel-Copper Prospect is a contiguous land package of 1,053 acres in the Eskay Creek Camp bordering Garibaldi Resources Corp., as well as the recent acquisition of the 4,980 acre 'Prickle' property bordering Brixton Metals Corp.
Spearmint's other projects in British Columbia include the 'Safari' Copper-Gold Prospect consisting of 9,007 contiguous acres located in the northern Quesnel Trough in North-Central BC, and the 'Hammernose' Gold Prospect consisting of 8,685 acres directly bordering Westhaven Gold Corp.'s Shovelnose Property in the Spences Bridge Gold Belt located in Southern British Columbia, Canada. Management cautions that past results or discoveries on properties in proximity to Spearmint may not necessarily be indicative to the presence of mineralization on the Company's properties.
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Contact Information
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"James Nelson"
President
Spearmint Resources Inc.
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