BLACKBIRD CRITICAL METALS CORP. Blackbird Critical Metals Corp. updated investors on exploration progress on the 100%-owned, 625 km2 Tyee Critical Metals Project. Highlights: A Forestry Permit application was made to allow for the clearing of drill pads on February 22nd.
The application includes 232 drill pad locations with drill fences over 12 targets, allowing the Company to move forward quickly on any one of the targets. Optical mineralogy confirms titanium is hosted in massive ilmenite. The Company intends to drill approximately 20 holes to a depth of 60 75 m using a helicopter supported RC drill.
This type of drilling should lend itself well to the titanium occurrences since all evidence to date points to broad mineralized bodies which can be properly evaluated with 1.5m sample intervals. Therefore, shallow holes with a light drill that is easy to move from target to target is an excellent method to efficiently advance its understanding of the most promising targets. A forestry permit that would allow for the clearing of 232 drill pads was submitted on February 22nd through the Company's permitting agent in Quebec.
This permit will allow the Company to drill fences on every target. There was a high correlation between on-site XRF results and lab assay results in the titanium rock samples from 2023. While these XRF results cannot be disclosed as they are considered too preliminary in nature, the XRF will be used as part of the daily chip logging process to help guide the drill program.
Thin sections taken of select grab samples from the Company's 2023 exploration program confirm that the titanium occurrences consist of massive ilmenite. The ilmenite shows exsolution lamella of hematite and locally microscopic rims of sulphides. These rims of sulphides, if connected, may be what makes the ilmenite occurrences conductive and allows them to be discovered using traditional airborne EM surveys.
Massive ilmenite is a principal ore of titanium in hard-rock titanium deposits and this typical mineralogy is an excellent outcome of the initial microscope work on the samples.
