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Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 5, 2018) - Spearmint Resources Inc. (CSE: SPMT) (OTC Pink: SPMTF) (FSE: A2AHL5) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that encouraging preliminary results have been obtained over the north-easterly block of Spearmint's Chibougamau vanadium properties. Continuing airborne (drone) magnetic surveys are being carried out over the western and south-western blocks of the properties as well.
Several north-east trending anomalous zones have been detected from the ongoing magnetic survey. The most significant zone to date is a sharply defined area of strong magnetic susceptibility, displaying a steep gradient ranging between - 120 nT to + 135 nT, within a sinuous anomalous area measuring approximately 600 m N-S by 300 to 600 m E-W.
James Nelson, President of Spearmint, stated "We are excited to have uncovered a potential high priority target on our Vanadium prospect. Immediate follow up work is being planned and management is expecting to have crews on the ground shortly to further investigate this specific anomaly. Additionally, the airborne magnetic surveys covering the two Western blocks are expected to be completed in December. As the Vanadium price-per-pound continues to reach all-time highs, recently breaking over $33USD per pound, we are very excited to have uncovered this sharply defined target this early in the phase one work programs on our Chibougamau Vanadium prospects."
Spearmint's Vanadium prospects border, or are in the direct vicinity of the vanadium deposit of BlackRock Metal's (private) Ilmenite vanadium project and Vanadium One Energy Corp.'s Mont Sorcier vanadium project. Vanadium has garnered significant market attention recently as the use of vanadium in battery storage is gaining momentum and Spearmint is very pleased to maintain a significant footprint in one of Canada's best-known vanadium districts. Vanadium has been the best performing battery metal over the past two years going from under $5 USD per pound to recently reaching an all-time high of over $33 USD per pound. On August 21, 2018, the Government of Quebec announced a $248-million investment in the BlackRock Metals Vanadium Project and the development of the Grande-Anse sector with the total project representing investments valued at nearly $1.3 billion and will create more than 800 jobs during the construction of the mine and mill. (Source: News Release from Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Science and Innovation and Minister responsible for the Digital Agenda, August 21, 2018, 09:30 EST.)