{"id":1192877,"date":"2020-06-29T15:29:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1028344"},"modified":"2020-06-29T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:29:15","slug":"appia-starts-exploration-at-alces-lake-rare-earth-deposit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1192877","title":{"rendered":"Appia starts exploration at Alces Lake rare earth deposit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Appia Energy (CSE: API) announced Monday that Phase I exploration activities have begun on the company’s high-grade rare earth element Alces Lake property in northern Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

Appia\u2019s 100% owned deposit, according to the company, hosts some of the highest\u00a0rare earth elements (REE) mineralization in the world<\/a>, hosted within a number of surface and near surface occurrences that remain open at depth and along strike. At a 4 wt% total rare earth oxide cutoff, Alces Lake average grade is 16.65 wt%\u00a0Total Rare Earth Oxides (TREO).<\/p>\n

\u201cOf global rare earths deposits, Alces Lake has the potential to be no. 2 in terms of grade, it\u2019s one of the richest prospects in the world,\u201d Tom Drivas, CEO, Appia Energy told MINING.COM. <\/p>\n

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\u201cOf global rare earths deposits, Alces Lake has the potential to be no. 2 in terms of grade, it\u2019s one of the richest prospects in the world”<\/p>\n

Tom Drivas, CEO, Appia Energy<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

Appia has defined 7 high-grade REE occurrences at surface within an area measuring 150 m x 100 m. Surface channel sample highlights include 22.35 wt% total rare earth oxide (TREO) over 6.21 m from the Ivan zone.<\/p>\n

Follow-up drilling in summer 2019 intersected 16.06 wt% TREO over 15.55 m, including 49.17 wt% TREO over 3.7 m, both starting within 10 m of surface in diamond drill hole IV-19-012.<\/p>\n

Phase I of a two-Phase summer exploration program is designed to discover additional surface and sub-surface high-grade REE occurrences.<\/p>\n

Details for Phase I include regional ground prospecting, mapping and sampling over historic REE occurrences and along two 2 km-long trends with previously identified radiometric showings of interest; ground geophysical surveys to attempt to map the REE minerals and structural system beneath the surface in order to prioritize drill targets.<\/p>\n

Exploration permits for Phase I have been received. Phase II of the summer exploration program is anticipated to start between late July and early August.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The deposit, according to the company, hosts some of the highest rare earth elements mineralization in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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\/1192877"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192899,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192877\/revisions\/1192899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}