RED LAKE, Ont. — A lithium find 175 kilometres north of Red Lake has won the Northwestern Ontario Prospectors Association's Bernie Schnieders Award for Discovery of the Year.
Sudbury-based junior mining company Frontier Lithium Inc. found the Spark deposit during work on its PAK Lithium Project.
The recent discovery is located within an emerging lithium-metal district labelled Electric Avenue, between North Spirit Lake and Deer Lake.
Frontier says the area contains the richest lithium resource known in Ontario.
Lithium is used to manufacture premium glass, ceramics and lithium batteries.
Robert Cundari chairs the NWO Prospectors Association's awards committee.
He says Frontier made the discovery in a type of pegmatite (igneous rock) that has never been identified before, and quickly defined "quite a considerable deposit."
Cundari said it's common in mineral exploration to take five or six years to identify something significant after an initial discovery is made.
"This company was able to put together a really exciting project and resource within 14 months of discovery...It's quite large, and the grade is quite high," he said.
