Vancouver, BC- TheNewswire - July 6, 2023 - Gitennes Exploration Inc. ("Gitennes" or the "Company") – (TSXV:GIT) announces that it is making plans for work on its 100% owned Sept Iles properties where it is exploring for nickel and Rare Earth Elements “(REE”), both of which are battery metals integral to the electrification of the automobile industry. Work will commence later this summer.

 

Initial plans will be to conduct first phase reconnaissance programmes on the properties. The programmes will consist of mapping, sampling, spectral analysis and geophysics.

 

Highlights of the Properties

Sept Iles nickel property

• 1.1% nickel over 10 metres in a trench historically reported by Soquem on claim adjacent to Gitennes property*; 

• Numerous untested airborne electro-magnetic anomalies; 

• Soquem also historically reported 1.3% nickel, 0.49% copper and 4.3 grams/tonne platinum in grab samples on adjacent claims*; 

• Accessible by all weather road, approximately 100 km north of Sept Iles; 

• Property consists of 191 claims, 10,500 hectares. 

 

Rare Earth Element property

• Several showings on the property; 

• Previous work returned grab samples anomalous in niobium and neodymium: 

  • Niobium grades up to 1.6%*;  

  • Neodymium grades from five samples ranged from 4,820 to 8,660 ppm*; 

• Government mapping identified pegmatites; 

• Accessible by all weather road, approximately 50 km north of Sept Iles; 

• Property consists of 62 claims, 3,400 hectares. 

 

* The reported grades are historical in nature and have not been verified by Gitennes.

About Gitennes Exploration Inc.

 

Gitennes is in the business of exploring for and advancing mineral properties The Company currently has three properties in the Sept Iles region of Quebec where the Company is exploring for nickel, REE, niobium and tantalum and three gold properties in the Chapais-Chibougamau area of Quebec: New Mosher, JMW and Maxwell and a 1.5% Net Smelter Return royalty on the 18 million ounce Urumalqui Silver Project in Peru.  The Company recently sold its gold properties in the Gaspe Region of Quebec and has optioned its Snowbird Gold property in BC to a gold exploration company.  All properties are 100% owned by Gitennes except for New Mosher which is under option and Gitennes can earn an initial 70% and has the right to increase its ownership to 85%.

  

Qualified Person – The technical content in this release has been reviewed and approved by Mitchell E. Lavery, P.Geo, who is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects  

For further information on the Company, readers are referred to the Company’s website at www.gitennes.com and its Canadian regulatory filings on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

 

Gitennes Exploration Inc.

 

“Ken Booth”

Ken Booth
President

 

For further information, please contact:
Ken Booth
Phone:  604-682-7970
Email:  info@gitennes.com

 

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This news release includes certain statements that constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws concerning the business, operations and financial performance and condition of the Company.  All statements in this news release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements and include any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations and orientations regarding the future.  Often, but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as "pro forma", "plans", "expects", "may", "should", "budget", "schedules", estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates", "believes", "potential" or variations of such words including negative variations thereof and phrases that refer to certain actions, events or results that may, could, would, might or will occur or be taken or achieved.  Such forward-looking statements include, among others, statements as to the anticipated business plans and timing of future activities of the Company, including the exercise of any property Options and to conduct exploration activities thereon.  Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors including risks and uncertainties relating to exploration and development and actual results of exploration activities; the ability of the Company to obtain additional financing; delays in obtaining governmental and regulatory approvals (including of the TSX-V), permits or financing; the need to comply with environmental and governmental regulations; potential defects in title to the Company's properties; fluctuations in the prices of commodities and precious metals; operating hazards and risks; environmental issues and liabilities; and competition and other risks and uncertainties of the mining industry.  Although the Company believes that the beliefs, plans, expectations and intentions contained in this news release are reasonable, there can be no assurance that those beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions will prove to be accurate.  Readers should consider all of the information set forth herein and should review the Company’s periodic reports filed from time-to-time with Canadian securities regulators.  These reports and the Company's filings are available at www.sedar.com.  

 

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.   The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release and, except as otherwise required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained herein, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in these forward-looking statements.