{"id":1144736,"date":"2019-10-18T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1004704"},"modified":"2019-10-18T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:37:39","slug":"lithium-chile-gets-environmental-approvals-for-turi-exploration-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1144736","title":{"rendered":"Lithium Chile gets environmental approvals for Turi exploration drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium Chile Inc. (TSXV:&nbsp;LITH)&nbsp;said&nbsp;on Friday that the Chilean Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (&#8220;SEIA&#8221;) has approved the Canadian&nbsp;miner\u2019s Turi exploration drilling program.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lithium Chile&nbsp;is the largest landholder of lithium&nbsp;salars&nbsp;in Chile outside of Chilean government and&nbsp;SQM. The company owns seventeen projects, encompassing 166,950 hectares on six&nbsp;salars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Surface access was successfully negotiated in early 2019 with the Turi Indigenous Community. With their support and input, an exploration drill program was designed in June of 2019, Lithium&nbsp;Chile&nbsp;said in a media statement.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;company&nbsp;can now file a Notice of Work with the National Geological and Mining&nbsp;Service, and&nbsp;anticipates preparatory work for the first hole in their drill program will be initiated the last week of October and their drilling rig will mobilize to Turi during the first week of November.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turi covers 13,000 hectares (130 square kms) or approximately 95% of the Salar de Turi in the heart of the Chilean side of the lithium triangle. In the spring of 2019, a 5-line TEM geophysical survey of the property identified a large 63+ square kms, 200 &#8211; 350+ meter thick, high conductivity anomaly starting approximately 150 meters below surface. Near surface brine samples above the TEM anomaly contain lithium values ranging up to 590 mg\/l and moderate to low magnesium to lithium ratios of 7.8.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surface access was successfully negotiated in early 2019 with the Turi Indigenous Community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144736"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144767,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144736\/revisions\/1144767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}