Eurobattery Minerals expands operations in Finland with FinnCobalt Oy.
Eurobattery Minerals AB (Nordic Growth Market: “BAT” and Börse Stuttgart: “EBM”), a growth company in the mining and exploration industry with the vision to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethical battery minerals, announces that FinnCobalt Oy has informed the company about its expansion in eastern Finland with a new granted reservation for applying an exploration permit over the highly prospective Varislahti prospect (“the Varislahti prospect”).
The prospect covers over 23.6 km2 of ground highly prospective for Outokumpu-type deposits (cobalt-copper-nickel-zinc-gold). Eurobattery Minerals has the option to acquire 100% of FinnCobalt Oy in a staged acquisition.
Roberto García Martínez, CEO of Eurobattery Minerals.
To meet Europe’s high and ever-increasing demand for battery minerals, the region needs to open more mines for these critical raw materials.
“Based on this demand, exploring new mineral deposits is a fundamental part of our business and I am very pleased that we are expanding our operations further in Finland, one of the most mining friendly countries in Europe.”
Key points:
- FinnCobalt expands its footprint in eastern Finland being granted a reservation for exploration over the highly prospective Varislahti project.
- Located ~10km west from the FinnCobalt Hautalampi project, Varislahti contains similar prospective rocks known to contain Co-Cu-Ni-Zn deposits.
- In the area there is already one known deposit, Riihilahti deposit with historical mineral resources defined at total 0.7 Mt @ Cu 0.72 %, Co 0.09 %, Ni 0.03 %, Zn 0.09 %, Au 0.3 ppm, Ag 6 ppm, S 3.84 %
- In addition, the area has historical drilling with some very interesting battery metals drill core intersections including:
Usi-11 8.6m @ Cu 0.23 %, Co 0.25 % inc. 1.25m @ Cu 0.46 %, Co 0.61 %
Usi-10 0.95m @ Cu 0.59 %, Co 0.09 %
- FinnCobalt Oy will commence works in the area by compiling existing geological information and will prepare a plan for future exploration in the area.
The Varislahti cobalt-copper-nickel-zinc prospect is ideally located to infrastructure and FinnCobalt’s current base of operations being approximately 10 km west of the Hautalampi project (Fig. 1).
Importantly, the prospective Outokumpu-type rock formations occur in the reservation area. The same formation hosts the Hautalampi Ni-Co-Cu deposit and other major mineral prospects and deposits. A reservation gives priority right to FinnCobalt to apply for an exploration permit over the area.
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Eurobattery Minerals expands operations in Finland, Stockholm, February 8, 2022
