The Tammela Project is a 2,300 hectare claim reservation covering the Kietyönmäki and Hirvikallio target zones, and represents a strategic acquisition for Nortec. Lithium values in these zones are very significant and contain very low iron and magnesium content relative to lithium. Demand for lithium resources in Europe has been growing in the last few years and is expected to increase in the future due to lithium applications in automobile and hi-tech batteries by European manufacturers. The low iron and magnesium content also makes it very favourable for the ceramics and glass industries.
A reclogging and resembling programmed was carried out in late November on the drill core stored at the Geological Survey of Finland ("GTK") core storage facility in Loppi, southern Finland. Select intervals of the drill core were taken from drill hole R310 that was drilled on the Kietyönmäki prospect, situated in the western part of the Tammela Project.
Samples were submitted to ALS Chemex in Outokumpu for 48 element ICP-MS finish. Ore grade results for lithium were analyzed using a 4-acid digest method and an AAS finish. These results re-confirm the presence of significant lithium mineralization at Kietyönmäki that was documented by the GTK in 1985.
Mineralization is hosted within the Kietyönmäki Main Dyke (or "KMD"), a large spodumene-rich (LiAlSi2O6) pegmatite dyke that can be traced for over 400m and is open to the south-east with an average width of 12 meters. The GTK drilled 17 holes to test the lithium potential of the KMD along 120 meters of strike intersecting an 18m wide mineralized zone to a depth of 75 meters below natural surface and is still open at depth.
The GTK calculated a drill weighted-average intercept lithium grade of 1% (Li2O) for an inferred resource of 400,000 tones. The readers and potential investors are warned that these estimates are not compliant with the industry standard
