St-Georges Eco-Mining Unveils Promising Niobium and Rare Earth Results at Notre-Dame Project
Montréal, Québec -- March 26, 2025 -- NewsGenie -- St-Georges Eco-Mining Corp. has announced encouraging preliminary results from surface sampling and initial mineralogical analysis at its Notre-Dame critical minerals project, located on the Nitassinan, the traditional territory of the Innu First Nation of Mashteuiatsh. The findings confirm the presence of niobium, tantalum, gallium, and rare earth elements (REEs) across various samples collected during trenching and exploration drilling.
These results support the company's initial exploration hypothesis and highlight the potential of the project to host valuable technology and energy transition metals. Detailed geochemical analyses over recent months led to this discovery. Both past and recent sampling efforts have revealed consistent anomalous values of niobium, tantalum, gallium, and other rare earth minerals throughout multiple targets within the Notre-Dame project area. The data confirms significant concentrations of these critical elements, warranting further investigation and supporting expanded exploration activities in the upcoming field season.
According to Herb Duerr, CEO of St-Georges, the initial results validate ongoing work at the Notre-Dame project and underscore the significant potential of this relatively unexplored region. He noted the encouraging identification of a carbonatite body extending at least 75 meters in length and up to 20 meters in width, based on limited initial drilling. Surface mineralization can be continuously traced to depths ranging from 16 to 36 meters. Drilling has consistently intersected the targeted geological structure and encountered niobium mineralization at depth, with several significant width intersections, defining a 75-meter extension along a shallowly dipping system open at depth and starting near the surface.
The Corporation will conduct further field work, including trenching, detailed mapping, and expanded sampling. Additional metallurgical tests will be performed to assess the extractability of niobium, tantalum, gallium, and rare earth elements.
Work confirmed a 75-meter by 20-meter carbonatite dyke, open in several directions and at depth, within which anomalous grades of rare earth elements (REE), niobium (Nb) and tantalum (Ta) were detected. Sampling of an 8-meter surface trench yielded values ranging from 100 to 2,360 ppm for Niobium (Nb), 10 to 60 ppm for Tantalum (Ta), 15 to 48 ppm for Gallium (Ga), and 200 to 4,000 ppm for total Rare Earth Elements (TREEs). Drill results included intervals with Niobium (Nb) exceeding the analytical detection limit of 2,500 ppm.
About St-Georges Eco-Mining Corp.
St-Georges is developing new technologies and owns a diversified portfolio of assets and intellectual property within several promising subsidiaries, including EVSX, Metallurgie St-Georges, Iceland Resources, H2SX, and exploration projects in Quebec, including the Manicouagan and Julie critical minerals projects and the Notre-Dame niobium project.