Overview
Because the push for greener vitality powers on, demand for electrical autos has risen considerably from 2.1 million models offered in 2020 to 4.5 million the subsequent 12 months, based on LMC Automotive. The electrical automobile market cap exceeded the one for the combustion engine for the primary time in late 2021, hitting $1.52 trillion in comparison with $1.47 trillion. And the U.S. authorities has additionally introduced plans to focus on 50 % electrical automobile gross sales share by 2030, mirroring comparable efforts in different nations. Regardless of this, the provision of lithium is falling quick. Main lithium producer Rio Tinto misplaced its license to provide the component, leaving a vacuum out there for mining firms. And, as S&P International Market Intelligence analyst Alice Yu states, “The lithium market is extraordinarily tight at current, so spot costs are very delicate to any provide disruptions.”
Canada finds itself in a novel place relating to home lithium manufacturing, on condition that it incorporates an abundance of alternatives for lithium mining. The nation is the positioning of 4 main lithium properties in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, and the multitude of energetic native mining corporations, in addition to historic mining actions within the space, show the viability of the area for lithium exploration. One mining operation, for example, has already invested into an ongoing 15,000-meter drill program. As Foremost Lithium CEO Scott Taylor advised INN concerning this competitor, “I count on a gradual pipeline of extremely encouraging ends in the subsequent a number of months— of a potential Snow Lake “Lithium Lane” rising from the information. We’ll proceed to advance this potential Lithium Lane thesis in comparable trend as Frontier Lithium’s (FL.V) Electrical Avenue, a premium lithium mineral district positioned in Northern Ontario..”
The federal government of Canada is on board as nicely, itemizing lithium as a important mineral “important to rising Canada’s clear, trendy financial system.” The component will play an important function sooner or later financial safety of the nation, in addition to its transition to a low-carbon financial system. The federal government additionally goals “to place Canada because the main mining nation, as set out within the Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan (CMMP).”
Foremost Lithium Useful resource & Know-how (CSE:FAT, OTCQB:FRRSF) is a inexperienced vitality expertise firm centered to construct one of many first North American firms to ETHICALLY and SUSTAINABLY produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide from our Snow Lake Lithium initiatives. The Firm’s focus is to kind strategic partnerships with lithium-battery producers to produce the ever-growing international EV battery market.
Foremost Lithium is the second largest lithium exploration firm in Snow Lake, Manitoba, and the enterprise strives to make use of best-in-class strategies to provide lithium in accordance with Canadian mining and exploration requirements whereas lowering environmental influence every time attainable.
Foremost Lithium presently manages three primary lithium properties: Zoro, Jean Lake and Grass River, all of that are throughout the mining-friendly city of Snow Lake, Manitoba. The realm, housing a mixed whole acreage of 30,846, is good for present and future exploration, and it’s geographically near “Auto Alley,” which incorporates the strategic infrastructure wanted to streamline manufacturing and logistics. Foremost’s land place connects with Snow Lake Lithium (NASDAQ:LITM) and 1911 Gold (TSX-V: AUMB)
The corporate goals to develop its stock of lithium-rich onerous rock deposits by way of complete and systematic drilling. Contrasting to the earlier administration groups who’ve did not carry out any appreciable actions previously few years, Foremost Lithium is able to make productive contributions to the electrical automobile market by processing its first manufacturing of lithium-rich spodumene ore into battery grade lithium-hydroxide focus to show the standard of its belongings.
On January 6, 2022, the Firm introduced that it has acquired a allow from the Province of Manitoba to extract a 500kg bulk pattern from its Zoro Lithium Property.
The Firm plans to extract a 500-kilogram bulk pattern of lithium mineralized spodumene-bearing pegmatite from Dyke 1 on its Zoro Lithium Mission. The majority pattern will probably be shipped to a good third social gathering for metallurgical testing and course of growth. A 2020 peer reviewed technical publication co-authored with SGS Mineral Providers concluded that spodumene-bearing pegmatite from Zoro Dyke 1 could be processed utilizing {industry} commonplace metallurgy to provide a 6% battery-grade lithium (Li2O) focus[1]. The objective for the upcoming 500 kg bulk pattern is to reveal that pegmatite from the Firm’s Zoro Lithium Mission is appropriate to provide battery-grade lithium hydroxide (LiOH) thereby making it viable to market its lithium to strategic companions previous to growth.
General, Foremost Lithium has a number of elements in its favor. It’s positioned within the mining-friendly Manitoba area with jurisdictions supportive of its actions. Its dedication to home lithium manufacturing avoids most of the moral and geopolitical issues of many overseas areas. The pre-existing infrastructure, together with roads and energy traces, helps save on prices. Drill samples obtained from preliminary exploration have proven promising deposits already. Lastly, the skilled and skilled administration crew understands the mining {industry} and learn how to function an organization to methodically advance lithium exploration and ship early-stage manufacturing outcomes.
Firm Highlights
- Foremost Lithium is able to speed up operations at a great time when lithium demand will skyrocket due to the rising electrical automobile market, which is able to probably hit 48 % by 2030.
- The corporate is the second largest lithium exploration agency in Snow Lake Manitoba, having elevated its land holdings by 14,873 acres to a complete of 26,276, a 130 % enhance since change of administration occurred solely in December 2021.
- Foremost Lithium operates in a mining-friendly area that’s accessible and incorporates developed infrastructure.
- The corporate’s future development potential is immense because the Snow Lake area boasts 26,000 acres, of which 95 % is but to be totally explored.
- All of Foremost Lithium’s initiatives contain hard-rock spodumene pegmatite deposits, confirmed to be essentially the most cost-effective and environment friendly selection for battery metallic utilized in electrical automobile manufacturing.
- Among the many firm’s initiatives, Zoro has obtained a allow to extract a bulk pattern and is already on observe to ship 6 % battery-grade lithium hydroxide..
- The enthusiastic administration crew is able to develop these properties and drive shareholder worth in a accountable and moral method.
Key Tasks
Grass River Lithium Mission
The Grass River Claims (GRC) spans 27 whole particular person claims by Foremost Lithium within the Snow Lake Manitoba mining district. The area was initially a web site of mineral exploration for base metallic large sulfides, gold, uranium and lithium within the 1950’s. At this time, Foremost Lithium goals to deliver trendy geophysical and geochemical applied sciences in addition to robust working-capital to the exploration of the GRC. The intention will probably be to benefit from these lithium belongings and reply to market alternatives promptly to generate shareholder worth.
Mission Highlights:
- Drilling Potential: Numerous pegmatites are already seen within the area, and seven pegmatite dykes bearing spodumene have been indicated by drilling.
- Broad Funding: Foremost Lithium has made itself the biggest lithium exploration agency within the Snow Lake Manitoba area, having raised its footprint from 14,873 acres to 26,276 acres.
- Historic Interest: The Manitoba Mining Recorder was an evaluation of the area relationship again 60 years. Whereas canceled, that undertaking did function the idea for figuring out the areas of pegmatites on the GRC.
- Combining Previous and New: Foremost Lithium will drill the targets indicated by historic and trendy exploration knowledge to be high-tonnage lithium deposits.
- Multi-Step Course of: Foremost Lithium will start exploration within the early Spring of 2022 by prospecting the outcrop areas for pegmatite, performing a Drone-Assisted Magnetic Survey, and utilizing Cell Steel Ions expertise to seek out new drill targets.
- Favorable Market Circumstances: Regardless of lingering provide deficits, the worldwide demand for lithium is skyrocketing, reaching 641,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equal in 2022 regardless of a provide of solely 636,000. The value of lithium carbonate in China is up 531 % this 12 months as nicely.
Jean Lake Lithium-Gold Mission
Foremost Lithium staked its claims in lithium and gold within the Jean Lake property, consisting of 5 claims spanning 2,500 acres. With none trendy exploration since 1942, the property boasts an unparalleled quantity of drill potential for high-grade lithium, particularly alongside the Beryl Pegmatite Lithium Development.
Mission Highlights:
- Mining-Pleasant Location: The city of Snow Lake is accepting of mining operations, having been used as an exploration alternative for base and valuable metallic manufacturing. The encompassing space can also be well-known for gold-rich deposits and lithium useful resource developments.
- Pre-Current Infrastructure: Foremost Lithium may have year-round entry to property-wide energy, an airstrip, a freeway and a rail system all inside shut proximity.
- Surveying: In response to the invention of Beryl lithium pegmatite in mid-2021, the Manitoba Mineral Improvement Fund not too long ago granted $300,000 for UAV-assisted magnetic and LIDAR surveys. The outcomes of this survey have been launched on March 1st, 2022. The Jean Lake outcomes are large as regards to the tendencies of magnetic lows. They correspond with the areas of the Beryl pegmatites on Jean Lake and are on development with the Sherritt Gordon and Grass River pegmatites on Snow Lake Lithium’s floor (NASDAQ:LITM). One can now see a number of high-quality drill targets. There are two domains recognized by the Jean Lake survey. The magnetic lows within the northern sector of the property that correspond to pegmatites and potential pegmatites and the southern/southwest sector which paperwork the magnetic highs that correspond to our gold assays and to the magnetic anomalies being drilled by 1911 Gold Corp on their floor to the west of Foremost
- Thompson Brothers Lithium Development: This space has been estimated to accommodate 9,082,600 tonnes of lithium-bearing ore with Li2O concentrates starting from 1.00 % to 0.98 %. It additionally incorporates the Snow Lake Sources Sherritt Gordon and Grass River pegmatites. Jean Lake sits on to the south of Snow Lake Lithium’s claims and there’s a potential “Lithium Lane” which connects the identified pegmatite dykes and interpreted lineaments on each properties.
- Extra Sources: Along with lithium, gold mineralization has been discovered right here too with assay outcomes of as much as 20.9 g/t gold. There’s additionally the economically viable beryllium within the area, which can be utilized in gears and cogs for the aviation and satellite tv for pc communication industries.
- Future Potential: Snow Lake Sources Ltd. claims 8 to 10 years of potential manufacturing totaling 160,000 tonnes each year of 6 % lithium focus.
Zoro Lithium Mission
20 kilometers east of Snow Lake, the Zoro Lithium Mission boasts 16 claims of lithium assets over 8,900 acres based on preliminary exploration packages. Zoro Dyke 1 provides an inferred 1,074,567 tonnes at 0.91 % Li2O. Metallurgical testing on the positioning additionally verifies a high-grade lithium focus of 6 % Li2O that may be extracted utilizing industry-standard strategies. The Firm is drilling ten new lithium targets in March 2022 and will probably be doing extra superior metallurgical testing in Might. The objective for the upcoming metallurgical testing pattern is to reveal that pegmatite from the Firm’s Zoro Lithium Mission is appropriate to provide battery-grade lithium hydroxide (LiOH) thereby making it viable to market its lithium to strategic companions previous to growth.
Mission Highlights:
- Excellent Atmosphere: Along with Snow Lake’s mining-friendly historical past and Manitoba’s affinity for mining investments based on the Fraser Institute, the world additionally has wonderful infrastructure, reminiscent of mines, rails, energy and a talented workforce.
- Complete Exploration: Prospecting efforts mixed with soil geochemical surveys and 5 diamond drill packages have added as much as over C$5 million in exploration expenditures and the invention of 12 new pegmatite dykes.
- MMI Know-how: The place geophysical signature detection has failed, MMI soil geochemical evaluation has pinpointed pegmatite dykes, a 36.5 meter extensive D8.
- Extra Property Choices: On prime of the aforementioned Dyke 1, the Zoro undertaking additionally has full possession of the Inexperienced Bay and Manitoba Claims, the previous of which incorporates seven spodumene-bearing pegmatite dykes. Whereas the Manitoba choice is but to be explored, the aptitude of the encompassing space underscores its personal potential as a mining alternative.
- Extra Metals: Zoro doesn’t function on lithium alone. There have been samples of tantalum and niobium, chemically comparable metals utilized in alloys amongst different purposes, discovered as nicely.
- Future Potential: Regardless of thorough exploration efforts, administration believes that solely a 3rd of the property has been explored and that extra discoveries of lithium pegmatites within the Zoro area are extraordinarily probably.
Determine 1 – Dyke 8 and three final drilled in 2018 stay open at depth and alongside strike. No useful resource has been printed in a 43-101 on these lithium mineralized dykes
Hidden Lake Lithium Mission
45 kilometers northeast of Yellowknife, the Hidden Lake Lithium Mission spans 4 claims unfold throughout 4570 acres and is in a great location to benefit from the elevated demand for lithium by the renewable vitality sector. The truth is, the Yellowknife Pegmatite District is usually thought of the biggest lithium useful resource in Canada, boasting a minimum of 55,000,000 US tons at 1.41 % L2O.
Mission Highlights:
- Lithium Wealthy: Prospects present a minimum of 10 spodumene pegmatite dykes bearing lithium. They vary between 275 meters and 790 meters in size with a lithium focus of 1.03 % and grades as much as 3.3 Li20.
- Environment friendly Extraction: Utilizing commonplace {industry} lithium strategies, take a look at runs have managed to extract 97 % of the component up to now.
- Accessible: Along with the Ingraham Path Freeway, the positioning could be accessed by constitution helicopter or float aircraft.
Winston Gold and Silver Mission
Whereas not essentially within the lithium market, the Winston Gold and Silver Mission nonetheless exemplifies Foremost Lithium’s flexibility and diversification relating to fulfilling shareholder worth. Preliminary sampling reveals high-grade findings like 41.5 g/t gold and 4610 g/t silver, which have been later expanded upon.
Mission Highlights:
- Confirmed Potential: Historic drilling from the Eighties has proven that high-grade ore shoots are attainable, making this area a low-risk alternative.
- Increasing Claims: As Foremost Lithium boosted its claims from 415 acres to 2980 within the area, sampling charges rose considerably with grades of as much as 66.5 g/t gold and 4,619 g/t silver.
- Extra Mines: The Little Granite Mine and Ivanhoe-Emporia Mines each have proven potential in gold and silver previously and are inside attain of this undertaking.
Administration Crew
Scott Taylor – CEO & President, Director
Scott Taylor is a profitable entrepreneur with a robust background in monetary markets. Born and raised in Vancouver, he has over 20 years of direct expertise in finance, vitality, mining, protection, and civil engineering. Scott began his profession elevating cash for each private and non-private markets, in addition to mining initiatives in commodities buying and selling. He continued in business finance in Moscow, Russia, with Delta Credit score after which moved to Switzerland, the place he intermediated commodities transactions for a non-public household workplace in Lugano, Switzerland. Scott has held positions spanning possession (start-up founder), govt administration and management, expertise growth, software program commercialization, enterprise growth, technical gross sales, and product advertising and marketing.
Mark Fedikow, P. Geo -VP of Exploration
Dr. Fedikow has over 40 years of expertise as an exploration geochemist and a mineral deposits geologist working in each personal and public sectors. He’s a Fellow on the Affiliation of Utilized Geochemists, the place he’s beforehand labored as a councilor. Dr. Fedikow, who has additionally served on quite a few industry-related committees, additionally pioneered the appliance of regional multimedia geochemical and mineralogical surveys in assist of base and valuable metallic and diamond exploration in Manitoba. Throughout his 45-year profession, he has labored for a wide range of junior and main mining exploration and mining firms along with the Manitoba Geological Survey as Chief Geologist of the Mineral Deposits Part. In 2001, he acquired the Provincial Geologists gold medal, a Canadian nationwide award for excellence within the geosciences. In 2002, Mark left the Manitoba Geological Survey to begin his personal firm, Mount Morgan Sources Ltd., to supply consulting companies to the metallic and hydrocarbon exploration {industry}. He’s presently registered as P.Eng. and P.Geo. with Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba (“EGM”), as P.Geo. with the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Affiliation of Skilled Engineers and Geoscientists (NAPEG), and as a Licensed Skilled Geologist (C.P.G.) with the American Institute of Skilled Geologists (“A.I.P.G.”), Westminster, Colorado, U.S.A.
Pierre-Yves Tenn – Chief International Officer and Board Member
Pierre-Yves Tenn holds an MA in Worldwide Relations and Diplomacy. He’s an progressive and centered Worldwide gross sales chief, enterprise strategist, and international consultant. He has the imaginative and prescient and management abilities required to introduce, place, and promote enterprise growth and gross sales for firms in worldwide markets. He provides 20 years of confirmed expertise within the growth of worldwide methods, enterprise, commerce, gross sales, and commerce, each domestically and overseas. Pierre-Yves is an completed strategist, communicator, and guide with the diplomatic acumen and expertise wanted to shut main gross sales, negotiate contracts, and handle each minor and main initiatives. A few of his key strengths embrace strategic planning and international development, as he’s well-versed within the advertising and marketing of North American important minerals to key gamers in Asia. He additionally is aware of learn how to entry funding funds and conduct worldwide enterprise promotion, advertising and marketing joint ventures, and negotiations.
Andrew Lyons – CFO and Board Member
Andrew Lyons has over 30 years of expertise in program and undertaking administration within the public market, monetary, and expertise sectors. He holds a BSc(CS) Cand BBA from the College of New Brunswick, an MBA from the College of Ottawa, and a PMP from the Mission Administration Institute. Andrew is well-versed in company governance of organizations within the personal, public, and non-profit fields and has labored with the personal sector, public firms, and governments involving scope, budgeting, capital funding, and undertaking administration. Lately, he has consulted with a number of mining firms, labored with senior administration and boards, and negotiated on using proceeds. Andrew was on the advisory board of two Canadian mining firms: Lida Sources earlier than it went public and presently Lakestone Sources. Andrew brings confirmed management working at a C-suite senior administration degree with company expertise within the mining sector, using his over 35 years of expertise as an impartial guide to assist drive enterprise ahead by way of growth and implementation of enterprise-wide data expertise options. He most not too long ago consulted with a number of mining firm senior boards to refocus their operations and streamline prices.
Victor Cantore – Advisor
Victor Cantore is presently the President, CEO, and Director of Amex Exploration. Cantore is a seasoned capital markets skilled specializing within the useful resource and hi-tech sectors. Having begun his profession in 1992 as an funding advisor after which shifting into administration roles at each private and non-private firms, he has greater than 20 years of advisory and management expertise. Throughout his profession, he has organized and structured quite a few fairness and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, three way partnership partnerships, and strategic alliances. Lastly, Cantore serves on the boards of varied firms each personal and public.
Lindsay Bottomer P.Geo – Geoscientific Advisor
Lindsay is a Vancouver-based geological guide with over 45 years of expertise in worldwide mining exploration and growth. He most not too long ago centered on epithermal gold and porphyry copper-gold exploration within the American Cordillera and Central Asia. He not too long ago retired from Entree Gold after 10 years as VP Acquisitions/Company Improvement, with main involvement in exploration of the Oyu Tolgoi North and South concessions in Mongolia. This enterprise led to the invention of the Hugo North Extension Cu-Au and Heruga Cu-Au-Mo porphyry deposits. He additionally led the acquisition of the Ann Mason Cu-Mo porphyry deposit in Nevada. He and firm founder Keith Anderson performed the preliminary web site go to to the Winston undertaking and acknowledged the potential for top grade silver-gold mineralisation within the historic mining camp that had been dormant for the reason that early Eighties.
Michael Feinstein, CPG, PhD – QP
Dr. Feinstein is an Arizona-based Financial Geologist and Guide with greater than 15 years of expertise main mineral exploration initiatives for purchasers within the USA, Mexico, and Canada. As founder and first of MineOro Explorations, he has managed the exploration and analysis of greater than 40 properties. He has important expertise with Tertiary Volcanics and Low-Sulphidation Epithermal Vein Techniques and has labored in Utilized Discipline Geology, Ore Deposit Genetics, and 3D GIS. Throughout an exploration undertaking in Alaska, Michael recognized earlier drill errors and conceptualized the event of the currently-running Dawson Gold Mine on Prince of Wales Island. A mineral exploration initiative he led in Arizona generated the Chloride Gold Mission, which is presently being explored. Fluent in English and Spanish, his favourite quotations are “discoveries are made within the discipline” and “whoever sees essentially the most rock wins.”
