Pivotal Metals Limited (ASX: PVT) Broadens High-Grade Exploration Targets at Lorraine with High-Resolution Magnetic Survey - Au-Cu-Ni-PGM.
- Noel Ong
- 4 days ago
- 6 min read
Announcement
Pivotal Metals Limited (ASX: PVT) has revealed encouraging results from its latest high-resolution magnetic survey over the Lorraine property, a critical part of its 100%-owned Belleterre-Angliers Greenstone Belt (BAGB) project in Quebec, Canada (Figure 1). The program has significantly enhanced the geological understanding of the Lorraine area, unveiling new structural features and target zones for high-grade copper, nickel, platinum group metals (PGMs), and gold exploration.
Figure 1: Pivotal holds a significant 157km² position in the highly prospective BAGB mineral belt. (source: PVT)
🔷 Key Survey Highlights – Expanding the Horizon - Au-Cu-Ni-PGM
✅ Magnetic Survey Complete: 287.75 line-km of high-resolution drone-based magnetic data collected over Lorraine, processed into magnetic field derivative maps (Figure 2).
Figure 2: 2025 high-resolution magnetic survey (TMI) and expanded target corridor at Lorraine (source: PVT)
✅ High-Grade Gold Corridor Extended: New structural breaks and folds indicate eastward extensions towards the Roy gold occurrence (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Lorraine Mine Gold and Copper Highlights (source: PVT)
✅ Bonanza Grade Gold Reaffirmed: Historic intercepts such as 28m @ 45 g/t Au support the area's prospectivity.
✅ New Gabbroic Intrusions Detected: Magnetic signatures suggest multiple new gabbroic bodies—potential hosts for Cu-Ni-PGM sulphide mineralisation, akin to the historic Lorraine and nearby Kelly Lake and Blondeau deposits.
✅ Field Activity Ongoing: Mapping, sampling, and trench validation underway; further geophysical surveys planned for Q3 2025.
This high-resolution dataset will feed directly into drill targeting strategies for both gold and polymetallic sulphide systems across the Lorraine project, which remains largely undrilled across the expanded corridor.
Managing Director Ivan Fairhall commented:
“This high-resolution magnetic data supports our active regional exploration program at Lorraine. The property already hosts multiple high-grade magmatic base metals and high-grade gold discoveries, which demonstrate a widespread mineralising system that is substantially underexplored.”
Fairhall added that the eastward corridor revealed by the survey presents a near-virgin terrain, representing a compelling opportunity to vector from known mineralisation into discoveries across the BAGB.
🔷 BAGB Prospectivity: A High-Grade System in an Underexplored Belt
The Lorraine project forms part of a wider 295-claim package spanning the prolific Belleterre-Angliers Greenstone Belt. Pivotal holds strategic coverage over prospective volcanic and intrusive terrains historically known for hosting magmatic Cu-Ni-PGE and shear-hosted gold systems.
Significant past intercepts from the Midrim and Alotta areas (Figure 4) underscore the potential:
💠Midrim (MR 17-01): 9.4m @ 4.3% Cu, 3.5% Ni, 4.6 g/t 3E from 56.6m
💠Midrim (MR 00-05): 4.3m @ 5.2% Cu, 6.6% Ni, 7.2 g/t 3E from 57.2m
💠Midrim (MR 01-29): 18.9m @ 2.1% Cu, 1.5% Ni, 2.4 g/t 3E from 17.6m
💠Alotta (ZA 18-05): 11.3m @ 2.2% Cu, 2.2% Ni, 3.1 g/t 3E from 61.2m
💠Alotta (ZA 18-08): 9.2m @ 2.8% Cu, 2.6% Ni, 3.6 g/t 3E from 85.2m
💠Alotta (ZA 19-05): 17.0m @ 2.9% Cu, 1.5% Ni, 3.3 g/t 3E from 54.0m
Figure 4: Regional location of the BAGB project area and its Baby, Lac des Bois, and Belleterre greenstone belt segments showing the location of Pivotal's tenements and known mineral occurrences (source: PVT)
These results point to a robust and high-grade polymetallic system with clear potential for further discovery.
(*Notably, the Lorraine project borders Vior Inc.’s Belleterre Gold Project to the east, which historically produced 750koz Au at 10.7 g/t and is currently undergoing a 100,000m drill campaign.)
🔷 Infrastructure Advantage – A Strategic Location
Located just 85 km south of Rouyn-Noranda in the Abitibi region, the BAGB project area is exceptionally well-serviced (Figure 5):
Proximity to road and rail networks
Hydro-powered electrical grid (5.5c/kWh)
Skilled workforce and major smelters nearby (Glencore’s Horne & Sudbury)
With over 100 historic mining operations in the region and Agnico Eagle forecasting 14 Mt/year of spare milling capacity from 2028, any discovery here has clear development advantages.
Figure 5: BAGB projects location map to nearby current and historic mining and milling operations (source: PVT)
🔷 Exploration Next Steps
Pivotal’s team is remobilising in July for detailed fieldwork focused on:
Mapping structural controls of gold-bearing veins
Geochemical soil surveys to define trenching targets
Surface EM surveys targeting magmatic sulphide intrusions
The goal is to integrate structural, geophysical, and geochemical datasets into a pipeline of drill-ready targets by late 2025.
Samso Concluding Comments
The Pivotal Metals (ASX: PVT) story is fairly simple. It's an early stage, and a contingent of companies has moved to seek greener pastures in Canada. It is hard to say that these are better projects because there are also issues in the North American continent that come with having a business in this sector.
The historical results are definitely promising, but I don't have an affinity with Canadian early-stage exploration projects. What seems to work are projects such as Champion Iron and Cyclone Metals with their iron ore projects, which are at the production stage. I find that there are few to very limited success stories that come from greenfield Canadian projects.
A stock to keep in mind, but I don't think there is much excitement.
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