Defense Metals Completes Phase 2 Pit Geotechnical Drilling & Intersects Mineralized Carbonatite at the Wicheeda Rare Earth Element Project
"We are pleased to have completed Phase 2 geotechnical programs and are encouraged that open pit geotechnical drilling has intersected significant widths of REE mineralized carbonatite within the western pit wall not previously known.
- "We are pleased to have completed Phase 2 geotechnical programs and are encouraged that open pit geotechnical drilling has intersected significant widths of REE mineralized carbonatite within the western pit wall not previously known.
- Drilling of WI23-82 into the west pit wall of the Wicheeda Deposit was successful tested a new ground radiometric anomaly (see Defense Metals news release dated September 5, 2023).
- The Phase 3 drilling and test pit program is expected to be completed within 4 weeks time.
- Mineralized drill core derived for the Phase 2 pit geotechnical campaign has been cut and sampled and submitted for analysis to ALS Global, North Vancouver.