Mr. Richard Penn reports
HYDROGEN, LORRAIN PROJECT, BEARN-LORRAINVILLE, QUEBEC
Q Precious & Battery Metals Corp.'s Lorrain claims are within the new and exciting exploration for hydrogen in the Ville-Marie, Lorrainville and Bearn regions of Quebec. The region has undergone a claim staking rush following the discovery of elevated hydrogen gas in soil by Quebec Innovative Materials Corp. In its Oct. 3 news release, Quebec Innovative announced its acquisition of new zones of prospective geology in the Duhamel, Fabre-West and Bearn areas, which align with the geological indicators of the natural hydrogen district. The Q Precious claims are located two kilometres north of Bearn and five kilometres east of Ville-Marie, and are within 14 kilometres southeast of the Quebec Innovative gas-in-soil discovery grid area.
Q Precious obtained the Lorrain property through claim staking in 2020. Interest in the area was initially related to historic exploration of the ultramafic rocks for precious metals (platinum group elements and gold); however, the claims were staked over a diverse geologic setting with potential for other commodities. The area is observed to contain the components of the volcanic belt/graben model used by Quebec Innovative to guide its exploration for hydrogen. Quebec Innovative states that several geologic features of the area are highly favourable for hydrogen where the sedimentary rocks of the Cobalt group are injected by numerous Nipissing mafic dikes and sills that can act as impermeable barriers that limit the ascent of hydrogen to the surface, acting as a hydrocarbon trap.
Q Precious has 11 claims totalling 633 hectares in the Ville-Marie-Bearn hydrogen exploration region. The claims are underlain by Paleoproterozoic cobalt group sedimentary rocks in contact with Neoarchean mafic to intermediate volcanic rocks, and intrusion of Archean peridotite bodies. Regional-scale fault structures are mapped within one kilometre of the claims.
The Q Precious geologic team will continue to assess the Lorrain claims for potential exploration programs designed for hydrogen.
Q Precious exploration programs undertaken in Quebec are supervised by Dr. Mathieu Piche, OGQ, with office located north of Val d'Or. He is also a Q Precious company director. The company has a 100-per-cent interest in mineral claims within Quebec, with exploration primarily targeting base and precious metals.
Perry Grunenberg, PGeo, a qualified person as that term is defined under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information in this news release.
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