Location of NAR’s DeStaffany, LDG & Mackay Lithium Projects along side LIFT’s Yellowknife Lithium Project. The pegmatites are located to the east and the northeast of the city of Yellowknife.
LDG Lithium Project
The LDG Project comprises 8,600 hectares of mineral claims and leases that are located 15 kilometers southwest of Rio Tinto’s Diavik diamond mine. To date, 10 spodumene pegmatite occurrences have been discovered by prospecting, including at least two undrilled spodumene pegmatites, each with outcropping dimensions estimated up to 20 meters in width and can be traced along 400 meters of strike length. The project area is covered by till which can be used an as exploration medium to discover buried deposits.
Mackay Lithium Project
The MacKay Project comprises 8,661 hectares of mineral claims approximately 30 kilometers to the south of the Rio Tinto’s Diavik diamond mine. To date, two spodumene occurrences have been discovered by prospecting. MK1 consists of a series of irregular sub-parallel pegmatite dykes ranging from 0.5 m to >10 m wide over a combined width of up to 150 m and traced over an interpreted strike extent of greater than 400 m; hand samples from four locations along 120 m of strike have returned 2.45%, 2.51%, 2.76% and 3.74% Li2O.
MK3 (located ~ 4.5 km east northeast of MK1) is a prominent 15 to 20 m wide, white pegmatite exposure traced near continuously along strike for approximately 130 m; five grab samples returned 5.25%, 4.08%, 2.71%, 1.92% and 1.10% Li2O.
Location of the LDG and MacKay projects in relation to the winter ice road and diamond mines