Wealth Minerals files technical report that will guide Atacama lithium exploration

Vancouver-based lithium exploration junior Wealth Minerals has filed a Canadian National Instrument 43-101-compliant technical report with securities regulators that will guide a two-pronged exploration campaign at the company’s Atacama lithium project, in Chile. To test the exploration potential for subsurface lithium-bearing brines at the project, the report recommends a comprehensive two-phase exploration programme, with the first phase entailing geophysical testing, with time domain electromagnetic surveying and potentially gravity and magnetotelluric techniques, to better define the subsurface environment, including basin configuration, sedimentary regimes, and possible brine presence at depth.