.jpg)
EV revolution in Canada ....................................................
New Gas-Powered Cars Are Set To Be Banned In Canada & Changes Start In 2026
https://www.narcity.com/new-gas-powered-car-ban-canada
The Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy
https://www.canada.ca/en/campaign/critical-mi...ategy.html
Critical minerals processing, manufacture, recycling to be focus of $1.5 billion in federal innovation funding
https://electricautonomy.ca/2023/07/19/critic...n-funding/
The federal government announced a $3.8-billion critical minerals strategy aimed at identifying and developing mineral projects and related infrastructure for critical minerals.
https://legalyearinreview.ca/critical-mineral...-industry/
November 1, 2023 - The Honourable Andrew Parsons, KC, Minister of Industry, Energy and Technology, today announced the release of the Newfoundland-Labrador province’s Critical Minerals Plan at Mineral Resources Review 2023. The Provincial Government will invest $4.3 million to support implementation of the Critical Minerals Plan. This includes $3 million for Critical Mineral Geoscience using innovative techniques including artificial intelligence and remote sensing technologies to expedite collection, processing and availability of public geoscience data and $1.3 million in additional funding to the Junior Exploration Assistance Program to enhance financial support to projects exploring for critical minerals within Newfoundland and Labrador. The Honourable Andrew Parsons was first elected in 2011 to represent the district of Burgeo – La Poile in Newfoundland, he has previously served as Minister of Justice and Public Safety, Attorney General, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Environment, and Government House Leader. Andrew is a lawyer, an ambitious leader, and a passionate ambassador for Newfoundland and Labrador. Born and raised on the southwestern tip of Newfoundland, Minister Parsons is an advocate for innovation, regional development, and economic diversification. ( https://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2023/iet/1101n01/ )
Global Battery Metals will be exploring Newfounland towards the end of 2024 to earn 100% interest in its La Poile lithium project. Government till sampling shows lithium values in the 29.1 - 52.6 ppm range, attributed to granitic rocks from the Appalachian-Caledonian belt extending from Ireland and the UK, through Newfoundland into the eastern US. La Poile hard rock lithium-bearing pegmatite project spans 80 square kilometers near Sokoman/Benton's joint venture Golden Hope project which shows 1.22% lithium oxide over 13.37 meters at their Killick zone and 0.60% lithium oxide over 20.82 m in their Kraken zone.
Nov 1, 2023 - Benton hits multiple high grade copper zones in first 2 holes inclucing 8.31% copper over 13 meters and continues to intersect copper-rich massive suphhides in its Great Burnt project.
Nov 2, 2023 - Benton and Sokoman Receive Explorer of the Year Award for their Killick/Kraken lithium project from the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Newfoundland and Labrador Branch.
BEX.V share price
https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=BEX.V&p...1571003875
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Periodic Table
https://investorshangout.com/images/MYImages/...cTable.png
Chemistry of Lithium
Lithium is an alkali metal with the atomic number = 3 and an atomic mass of 6.941 grams/mole. This means that lithium has 3 protons, 3 electrons and 4 neutrons (6.941 - 3 = ~4). One mole contains 6.022 x 10 to the power 23 atoms.
https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorg...203%20%3D%
Youtube Video - Chemical reaction between lithium and water
Lithium reacts violently with water, producing hydrogen gas, which bubbles out of the solution. The reaction is exothermic, which means it releases heat.
The reaction between lithium and water produces lithium hydroxide (LiOH) and hydrogen gas (H2).
2Li + 2H2O = 2LIOH + H2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxqe_ZOwsHs
Potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium also react violently with water, but not aluminium, zinc, iron, copper silver and gold. Gold has the least reactivity in nature, that is why solid shiny gold is found in rocks. The order in decreasing reactivity is K, Na, Li, Ca, Mg, Al, Zn, Fe, Cu, Ag, Au.
Lithium ion batteries versus sodium ion batteries
https://www.dnkpower.com/will-sodium-batterie...%20storage
https://batteriesnews.com/sodium-ion-batterie...ast%20year
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), a global leader in lithium-ion battery development and manufacturing, is committed to providing premier solutions and services for new energy applications worldwide.
https://www.catl.com/en/
Pegmatite and spodumene
What is pegmatite
Pegmatite is a common plutonic rock, of variable texture and coarseness, that is composed of interlocking crystals of widely different sizes. The most spectacular pegmatites contain abnormally large crystals mixed with medium and smaller crystals. Crystals up to many meters long have been reported. Some pegmatite may be thousands of meters in length and hundreds of meters thick, some appear as dikes, veins, or sills. Pegmatites may be composed of a variety of minerals. Terms such as spodumene pegmatite, granite pegmatite, gabbro pegmatite, syenite pegmatite.
Pegmatite is granite-like rock that isn’t very useful on its own but houses some very precious minerals and elements such as lithium, spodumene, cesium, rare earth elements, tantalum, niobium, and many gemstones including apatite, aquamarine, emerald, garnet, topaz, tourmaline, zircon, scapolite, beryl, apatite, fluorite and zircon. Gem quality stones and elements such as tungsten, boron, tantalum, columbium, bismuth, tin, uranium, radium, sheet mica, and sulfide minerals are found in pegmatite.
Images of Pegmatite
https://www.google.ca/search?sxsrf=AJOqlzXZec...&dpr=1
Pegmatite dyke
https://epod.usra.edu/blog/2010/04/pegmatite-...%20Pangaea
What is spodumene
Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminium inosilicate ( Chemical formula LiAl(SiO3)2 or LIAlSi2O6 ), it is a source of lithium. It occurs as colorless to yellowish, purplish, or lilac kunzite, yellowish-green or emerald-green hiddenite, prismatic crystals, often of great size. Single crystals of 14.3 m (47 ft) in size are reported.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spodumene
Images of spodumene
https://www.google.ca/search?sxsrf=AJOqlzWku7...&dpr=1
Spodumene pegmatite is plutonic rock with spodumene embedded in it.
Image of spodumene pegmatite
https://www.google.ca/search?q=spodumene+pegm...p;biw=1024
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How does lithium batteries work
https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resour...ercalation.
Lithium is an element which has many applications. It is mined from ores of petalite LiAl(Si2O5)2, lepidolite K(Li,Al)3(Al,Si,Rb)4O10(F,OH)2, spodumene LiAl(SiO3)2 and also subsurface brines. Lithium is chemically extremely active, so it cannot be used in metallic form, instead, lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide is used as base compound. The most common materials used in lithium-ion batteries cathode (positive electrode) include lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2), lithium manganese oxide (LiMn2O4), lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4 or LFP), and lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (LiNiMnCoO2 or NMC). That is why colbalt, manganese and nickel are also in the Critical Minerals list. The anode (negative electrode) is typically made up of Graphite, coated on Copper Foil. As the lithium-metal-oxide supplies the lithium-ions, the batteries are called lithium-ion batteries.
Lithium hardrock mining vs lithium brine mining
https://www.minersdata.com/lithium-hard-rock-...ne-mining/
Lithium hardrock mining: Lithium oxide (Li2O) is extracted from ores then converted into lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.
Lithium brine mining: Brine contains dissolved lithium salts formed in rocks over millions of years or obtained through solar evaporation or mechanical evaporation. The concentrated brine is then further processed to extract lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.
Lithium carbonate (LI2CO3)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_carbona...vaporation.
Lithium hydroxide (LIOH)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_hydroxide
Lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) vs lithium hydroxide (LiOH)
https://bisleyinternational.com/what-is-the-d...hydroxide/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Why James Bay, Ireland and Newfoundland have similar spodumene pegmatites
The area’s granitic rock from the Paleozoic era is part of a larger Appalachian-Caledonian belt that extends from the Ireland and the UK, through Newfoundland and into the eastern US. Included in this suture zone are the important lithium deposits held by Ganfeng Lithium/International Lithium Corp. Blackstairs Lithium Project in Ireland, as well as by Piedmont Lithium Inc. in the Carolinas, US.
https://investorshangout.com/images/MYImages/...ckbelt.jpg
How continents, hardrock lithium were formed
About 300-200 million years ago the continent we now know as North America was contiguous with Africa, South America, and Europe. Canada's James Bay, Greenland, Newfoundland and Great Britain were once contiguous. They all existed as a single continent called Pangaea. Magma from the interior of the Earth carrying precious and base metals protruded into the Earth's crust forming pegmatites. Since lithium is chemically very active, elemental lithium does not exists, rather, it formed numerous lithium minerals, lithium salts and lithium compounds. Mineral such as spodumene found in pegmatites is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminium inosilicate (chemical formula LiAl2SiO6). As the Pangaea splitted into continents and as continents gradually drifted far apart, those spodumene pegmatites were distributed all around the world, but the characteristics and signatures of their existence remain the same anywhere they are found. As Pangaea broke up, Europe started drifting away from North America, taking the lithium mineralizations with it and deposited along the stretched Appalachian-Caledonian granitic rock belt. Newfoundland is not just an island filled with fishing ports, it may be hidden with LCT pegmatite and spodumene pegmatite similar to that in Ireland with long intervals of 3.75% lithium, waiting to be discovered while Ireland still has the potential of hosting PMET style multiple LCT/Spodumene pegmatites with long intervals of high grade lithium.
Drill core assays of Sokoman-Benton joint venture's Golden Hope project, Newfoundland
https://investorshangout.com/images/MYImages/...-23-45.jpg
Drill core assays of Patriot Battery Metals in James Bay, Quebec
https://investorshangout.com/images/MYImages/...4holes.png
Drill core assays of Global Battery Metals in Leinster, Ireland is pending
Display from Twitter.com:
https://investorshangout.com/images/MYImages/...reland.png
New Gas-Powered Cars Are Set To Be Banned In Canada & Changes Start In 2026
https://www.narcity.com/new-gas-powered-car-ban-canada
The Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy
https://www.canada.ca/en/campaign/critical-mi...ategy.html
Critical minerals processing, manufacture, recycling to be focus of $1.5 billion in federal innovation funding
https://electricautonomy.ca/2023/07/19/critic...n-funding/
The federal government announced a $3.8-billion critical minerals strategy aimed at identifying and developing mineral projects and related infrastructure for critical minerals.
https://legalyearinreview.ca/critical-mineral...-industry/
November 1, 2023 - The Honourable Andrew Parsons, KC, Minister of Industry, Energy and Technology, today announced the release of the Newfoundland-Labrador province’s Critical Minerals Plan at Mineral Resources Review 2023. The Provincial Government will invest $4.3 million to support implementation of the Critical Minerals Plan. This includes $3 million for Critical Mineral Geoscience using innovative techniques including artificial intelligence and remote sensing technologies to expedite collection, processing and availability of public geoscience data and $1.3 million in additional funding to the Junior Exploration Assistance Program to enhance financial support to projects exploring for critical minerals within Newfoundland and Labrador. The Honourable Andrew Parsons was first elected in 2011 to represent the district of Burgeo – La Poile in Newfoundland, he has previously served as Minister of Justice and Public Safety, Attorney General, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Environment, and Government House Leader. Andrew is a lawyer, an ambitious leader, and a passionate ambassador for Newfoundland and Labrador. Born and raised on the southwestern tip of Newfoundland, Minister Parsons is an advocate for innovation, regional development, and economic diversification. ( https://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2023/iet/1101n01/ )
Global Battery Metals will be exploring Newfounland towards the end of 2024 to earn 100% interest in its La Poile lithium project. Government till sampling shows lithium values in the 29.1 - 52.6 ppm range, attributed to granitic rocks from the Appalachian-Caledonian belt extending from Ireland and the UK, through Newfoundland into the eastern US. La Poile hard rock lithium-bearing pegmatite project spans 80 square kilometers near Sokoman/Benton's joint venture Golden Hope project which shows 1.22% lithium oxide over 13.37 meters at their Killick zone and 0.60% lithium oxide over 20.82 m in their Kraken zone.
Nov 1, 2023 - Benton hits multiple high grade copper zones in first 2 holes inclucing 8.31% copper over 13 meters and continues to intersect copper-rich massive suphhides in its Great Burnt project.
Nov 2, 2023 - Benton and Sokoman Receive Explorer of the Year Award for their Killick/Kraken lithium project from the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Newfoundland and Labrador Branch.
BEX.V share price
https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=BEX.V&p...1571003875
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Periodic Table
https://investorshangout.com/images/MYImages/...cTable.png
Chemistry of Lithium
Lithium is an alkali metal with the atomic number = 3 and an atomic mass of 6.941 grams/mole. This means that lithium has 3 protons, 3 electrons and 4 neutrons (6.941 - 3 = ~4). One mole contains 6.022 x 10 to the power 23 atoms.
https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorg...203%20%3D%
Youtube Video - Chemical reaction between lithium and water
Lithium reacts violently with water, producing hydrogen gas, which bubbles out of the solution. The reaction is exothermic, which means it releases heat.
The reaction between lithium and water produces lithium hydroxide (LiOH) and hydrogen gas (H2).
2Li + 2H2O = 2LIOH + H2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxqe_ZOwsHs
Potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium also react violently with water, but not aluminium, zinc, iron, copper silver and gold. Gold has the least reactivity in nature, that is why solid shiny gold is found in rocks. The order in decreasing reactivity is K, Na, Li, Ca, Mg, Al, Zn, Fe, Cu, Ag, Au.
Lithium ion batteries versus sodium ion batteries
https://www.dnkpower.com/will-sodium-batterie...%20storage
https://batteriesnews.com/sodium-ion-batterie...ast%20year
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), a global leader in lithium-ion battery development and manufacturing, is committed to providing premier solutions and services for new energy applications worldwide.
https://www.catl.com/en/
Pegmatite and spodumene
What is pegmatite
Pegmatite is a common plutonic rock, of variable texture and coarseness, that is composed of interlocking crystals of widely different sizes. The most spectacular pegmatites contain abnormally large crystals mixed with medium and smaller crystals. Crystals up to many meters long have been reported. Some pegmatite may be thousands of meters in length and hundreds of meters thick, some appear as dikes, veins, or sills. Pegmatites may be composed of a variety of minerals. Terms such as spodumene pegmatite, granite pegmatite, gabbro pegmatite, syenite pegmatite.
Pegmatite is granite-like rock that isn’t very useful on its own but houses some very precious minerals and elements such as lithium, spodumene, cesium, rare earth elements, tantalum, niobium, and many gemstones including apatite, aquamarine, emerald, garnet, topaz, tourmaline, zircon, scapolite, beryl, apatite, fluorite and zircon. Gem quality stones and elements such as tungsten, boron, tantalum, columbium, bismuth, tin, uranium, radium, sheet mica, and sulfide minerals are found in pegmatite.
Images of Pegmatite
https://www.google.ca/search?sxsrf=AJOqlzXZec...&dpr=1
Pegmatite dyke
https://epod.usra.edu/blog/2010/04/pegmatite-...%20Pangaea
What is spodumene
Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminium inosilicate ( Chemical formula LiAl(SiO3)2 or LIAlSi2O6 ), it is a source of lithium. It occurs as colorless to yellowish, purplish, or lilac kunzite, yellowish-green or emerald-green hiddenite, prismatic crystals, often of great size. Single crystals of 14.3 m (47 ft) in size are reported.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spodumene
Images of spodumene
https://www.google.ca/search?sxsrf=AJOqlzWku7...&dpr=1
Spodumene pegmatite is plutonic rock with spodumene embedded in it.
Image of spodumene pegmatite
https://www.google.ca/search?q=spodumene+pegm...p;biw=1024
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How does lithium batteries work
https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resour...ercalation.
Lithium is an element which has many applications. It is mined from ores of petalite LiAl(Si2O5)2, lepidolite K(Li,Al)3(Al,Si,Rb)4O10(F,OH)2, spodumene LiAl(SiO3)2 and also subsurface brines. Lithium is chemically extremely active, so it cannot be used in metallic form, instead, lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide is used as base compound. The most common materials used in lithium-ion batteries cathode (positive electrode) include lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2), lithium manganese oxide (LiMn2O4), lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4 or LFP), and lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (LiNiMnCoO2 or NMC). That is why colbalt, manganese and nickel are also in the Critical Minerals list. The anode (negative electrode) is typically made up of Graphite, coated on Copper Foil. As the lithium-metal-oxide supplies the lithium-ions, the batteries are called lithium-ion batteries.
Lithium hardrock mining vs lithium brine mining
https://www.minersdata.com/lithium-hard-rock-...ne-mining/
Lithium hardrock mining: Lithium oxide (Li2O) is extracted from ores then converted into lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.
Lithium brine mining: Brine contains dissolved lithium salts formed in rocks over millions of years or obtained through solar evaporation or mechanical evaporation. The concentrated brine is then further processed to extract lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide.
Lithium carbonate (LI2CO3)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_carbona...vaporation.
Lithium hydroxide (LIOH)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_hydroxide
Lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) vs lithium hydroxide (LiOH)
https://bisleyinternational.com/what-is-the-d...hydroxide/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Why James Bay, Ireland and Newfoundland have similar spodumene pegmatites
The area’s granitic rock from the Paleozoic era is part of a larger Appalachian-Caledonian belt that extends from the Ireland and the UK, through Newfoundland and into the eastern US. Included in this suture zone are the important lithium deposits held by Ganfeng Lithium/International Lithium Corp. Blackstairs Lithium Project in Ireland, as well as by Piedmont Lithium Inc. in the Carolinas, US.
https://investorshangout.com/images/MYImages/...ckbelt.jpg
How continents, hardrock lithium were formed
About 300-200 million years ago the continent we now know as North America was contiguous with Africa, South America, and Europe. Canada's James Bay, Greenland, Newfoundland and Great Britain were once contiguous. They all existed as a single continent called Pangaea. Magma from the interior of the Earth carrying precious and base metals protruded into the Earth's crust forming pegmatites. Since lithium is chemically very active, elemental lithium does not exists, rather, it formed numerous lithium minerals, lithium salts and lithium compounds. Mineral such as spodumene found in pegmatites is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminium inosilicate (chemical formula LiAl2SiO6). As the Pangaea splitted into continents and as continents gradually drifted far apart, those spodumene pegmatites were distributed all around the world, but the characteristics and signatures of their existence remain the same anywhere they are found. As Pangaea broke up, Europe started drifting away from North America, taking the lithium mineralizations with it and deposited along the stretched Appalachian-Caledonian granitic rock belt. Newfoundland is not just an island filled with fishing ports, it may be hidden with LCT pegmatite and spodumene pegmatite similar to that in Ireland with long intervals of 3.75% lithium, waiting to be discovered while Ireland still has the potential of hosting PMET style multiple LCT/Spodumene pegmatites with long intervals of high grade lithium.
Drill core assays of Sokoman-Benton joint venture's Golden Hope project, Newfoundland
https://investorshangout.com/images/MYImages/...-23-45.jpg
Drill core assays of Patriot Battery Metals in James Bay, Quebec
https://investorshangout.com/images/MYImages/...4holes.png
Drill core assays of Global Battery Metals in Leinster, Ireland is pending
Display from Twitter.com:
https://investorshangout.com/images/MYImages/...reland.png
