El Quemado
South American Lithium’s Flagship Property
The El Quemado mining project is one of the largest lithium bearing land packages in all of Argentina
The El Quemado mining district is located on the eastern slopes of the Palermo and Cachi Mountains, at an altitude between 3,800 and 4,700 meters above sea level.
It lies Northwest of the town of Palermo Oeste and extends in a N-S belt between the towns of La Poma and Cachi (province of Salta, Argentina), covering an area of over 50,000 Ha.
El Quemado mining district is said to be the most important concentration of Tantalum and Niobium in Argentina. It contains a large number of pegmatitic bodies with large concentrations of niobium, tantalum, lithium and rare earths.
El Quemado
Surrounded by past exploited projects
- Areas within The El Quemado property were formerly exploited in the 1940s for tantalum and niobium, suggesting that the immediate surrounding areas may have massive prospective potential.
- Recent magnetometry studies conducted near the El Quemado project suggest that important non-outcropping pegmatitic bodies could extend in length and depth on the property.
- Further geophysical surface studies suggest that the non-outcropping pegmatites could extend in length for at least 3 km to the outcrops, up to a minimum depth of 30 m and maintaining the thickness in depth.
El Quemado
Santa Elena Region
Geological map of the Pegmatitic site on the Santa Elena region. Granitic pegmatites are NW-SE heading bodies represented in red. The scale is 200 m and SALI’s property is outlined with the purple polygon.
- Located within the El Quemado Project
- Past Trenching samples from the Santa Elena are highlighted by trench EIQ-0013, which contained 1.41% Li2O over 6 meters
- Sixteen outcrops of pegmatitic bodies have been found reaching lengths from 10 to 800 meters